Director – Legal Managed Services (Contracting Solution Transformation Lead) 

• Reports to: Partner, Legal Managed Services 

• Location: UK (Travel Required) 

 

Role Summary:

 

The Director leads strategic contracting managed services programmes, accountable for the transformation lifecycle from pre-sales through to post-signature delivery. You will actively support the sales process, collaborating with Partners to build robust business cases, develop pricing strategies, and define optimal managed service team structures. You will comprehensively assess the client's As-Is environment and design a future-state To-Be model that effectively integrates people, process, technology, and governance to drive substantial improvements. Additionally, you will oversee the transition of complex contracting operations into KPMG's optimised delivery model, ensuring commercial success and developing senior-level client relationships at the GC/CXO level. 

 

Key Responsibilities: 

 

• Programme oversight for large-scale managed contracting service transitions 

• Designing and implementing optimal future-state solutions (talent, process, technology) 

• Commercial accountability, ensuring projects

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The Central Technical team works together with teams across the tax practice to collect, create, curate and communicate technical insight for the benefit of our teams and clients. This involves both carrying out original research and analysing knowledge submissions to produce and maintain technical resources to support our teams in delivering work to clients, assisting with complex technical queries, producing tax technical newsletters and monitoring important tax technical developments arising as a result of case law or the annual Budget and Finance Bill process, working closely with the separate Tax Policy team as required.

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We are building a national team of advisory tax professionals focused on providing international tax advice to the largest and fastest growing businesses throughout the UK, be it listed, privately owned or private equity.  

 

This role will be entirely advisory focussed with no tax compliance responsibilities; however, we welcome applicants with either tax advisory and/or compliance background.

 

This is a dynamic, collegiate and supportive environment for someone to join a great team where they will be invested in and given opportunities to grow their experience and achieve their potential.

 

This team works with some of the most exciting and prestige organisations throughout the UK and internationally.

 

We are committed to providing opportunities for tax professionals to access the most interesting work and opportunities wherever they may be based within the UK.