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.

Construction Solicitor

KPMG Law has a vision to become one of the world's largest legal practices, integrated as part of a broader multi-capability professional services firm and #1 of the Big Four. In an ever more complex and fast-moving business environment, clients are demanding connected business solutions delivered at scale, harnessing the power of technology and leveraging deep commercial acumen.  Developing market leading legal capabilities in key disciplines is core to achieving this vision and represents a unique and exciting opportunity for ambitious and talented legal professionals.    

At a global level, KPMG Law already employs over 3,750 lawyers in 81 different countries across the world and is continuing to grow rapidly year on year.   

The Opportunity

• KPMG Law wishes to hire a manager - with at least 4 years post qualified experience in the construction sector ideally working within a real estate department acting for real estate investment and/or development clients and owners with repeat activity. 
• The KPMG Law UK real estate team started in December 2013 and is now 11 strong including 5 Partners with further growth plans during 2026 already acting on repeat investment, development and asset management mandates for private equity funds, sovereign wealth and listed property company clients. The team currently includes x1 Construction Partner and x1 Construction Senior Manager, hence the need to recruitment additional Construction capability at Manager level.
• The successful candidate will have experience working on real estate (and infrastructure if possible but not essential) building contracts, professional appointments, collateral warranties and other ancillary documents, including bonds and parent company guarantees. Experience working on development funding and/or development management agreements would also be advantageous.
• As this sector is known to lack diversity, KPMG is dedicated to considering diverse profiles for this role.
• The ideal candidates are likely to come from law firms but candidates from competitor firms or in-house

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We have 174,000 outstanding professionals working together to deliver value in 155 countries worldwide. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities. In the UK, we are one of the leading companies in the industry. 

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