Manager - Legal Business Services
Location: London & Manchester
Capability: Tax & Law
Job details
Location: London, Manchester
Capability: Tax & Law
Experience Level: Manager
Type: Full Time
Service Line: UK Law
Contract type: Permanent
Job description
Job Title: Manager – Legal Business Services
Role Overview
As a Manager in KPMG’s Legal Business Services (LBS) team, you will lead client delivery across legal transformation projects, driving innovation in contract management, legal technology, and operating model design. You will play a pivotal role in helping clients embed legal into business processes, harnessing AI and automation, and redesigning their legal supply chains.
This is a client-facing leadership role, with responsibility for scoping, designing, and delivering engagements, as well as developing our propositions and helping to grow the LBS business.
What you will do
- Lead client engagements, from diagnostics to delivery, applying our methodologies.
- Design target legal operating models and implement transformation roadmaps
- Oversee legal technology implementation projects, ensuring effective integration into enterprise systems (e.g. CLM, AI, Matter and Spend Management)
- Drive managed services design and transition, enabling scalable delivery of contracting and legal processes.
- Facilitate client workshops to capture requirements and prioritise initiatives by value, risk, and feasibility.
- Contribute to business development through proposals, thought leadership, and pre-sales support.
Leadership & Management
- Manage multi-disciplinary engagement teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and adherence to KPMG standards.
- Mentor and coach junior team members, contributing to their development and the growth of the practice.
- Collaborate across KPMG service lines and global teams to deliver integrated, cross-functional solutions.
Skills & Experience
- Strong consulting or professional services experience, ideally with exposure to legal, contracting, or compliance.
- Proven experience in leading delivery of transformation projects (e.g. CLM, operating model, process redesign).
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies (Agile and traditional).
- Demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders and build lasting client relationships.
- Experience with legal technology platforms (e.g. Ironclad, CPAI, DocuSign CLM, iCertis, SirionLabs, Wolters Kluwer, Harvey) is desirable.
Why Tax & Law at KPMG?
The issues surrounding tax and legal services are constantly evolving, both locally and globally. Which is why you'll find life at KPMG both intellectually stimulating and rewarding. There's also the scale and breadth of what we do – our services span specialisms such as Corporate and Indirect Tax; Expatriate and Private Client Personal Tax compliance and advice; and KPMG Law.
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