Senior Project Manager - AI Adoption (Legal)

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager – AI Adoption (Senior Consultant) - Legal

Location: London, hybrid working

Duration: Permanent

Start: ASAP

At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are ‘problem solvers’ who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early.

Our mission is to create environments that thrive for our customers; we enable this by providing transformation, process optimisation, and automation services, all with the aim of enabling our customers to harness human autonomy.

We are reimagining how transformation services are delivered, taking a human-centred approach, and our work is having a material impact on people's lives. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you.

Role:

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead on the initial discovery and scoping of potential AI use cases within a global law firm, based in Central London. You will have ownership of the full project, seeing the agreed solutions through to implementation and adoption.

What you’ll do:

• Identify opportunities for automation and process optimisation, leveraging AI and emerging technologies.
• Lead the full lifecycle implementation and execution of an AI-driven transformation initiative within the law firm's back-office functions.
• Develop and oversee the strategic roadmap for AI integration, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Engage and manage senior stakeholders, including partners, legal teams, and operations leaders, to secure buy-in and drive organisational change.
• Utilise Agile project management methodologies, ensuring efficient and iterative project execution.
• Collaborate with AI specialists, legal technology teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable and impactful solutions.

Qualifications:

The successful Senior Project Manager will be able to demonstrate:

• Extensive experience in Agile project delivery, in the capacity of a PM / Senior PM having delivered several projects from start to finish.
• Expertise in AI applications within back-office operations, process automation, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to drive project execution effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders, with experience in legal or professional services environments.
• Solid business acumen, with the ability to assess and articulate the impact of use cases within a business context.
• Consulting experience is highly desirable, with a strong ability to influence and facilitate decision-making processes.
• Experience working within the legal industry or professional services sector is highly advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate in a dynamic and evolving environment.

What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to join a high-growth, scale-up consulting firm; we see an opportunity to make a material difference to how clients are served, and are on a mission to create environments that thrive for our clients.
• A dedicated focus on your individual personal development: managed through annual performance appraisals, individual personal development plans, and our bi-weekly ‘continuous conversations’ programme.
• Additional professional development is available through a personal training budget (subject to approval of a relevant business case).

A competitive salary of up to £85,000 plus additional benefits including:

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus an additional days’ leave for your birthday.
• Annual leave purchase: buy up to 10 additional days of leave per annum.
• Reservist leave: up to 10 days of paid leave to fulfil reservist commitments.
• Private health insurance.
• AVIVA workplace pension scheme.
• AIG life assurance.
• Save 30-60% on an electric car through The Electric Car Scheme.

Your Pace team:

Harnessing Human Autonomy is putting the needs of humans above all in process and system design.

We are a consultancy that helps organisations become aware of the human needs and behaviours within their operations, so that systems and processes can be designed and implemented to match. We automate the basics and empower the human to achieve more in the beckoning of AI and automation. The results are a more engaged, agile and motivated workforce capable of greater efficiency and innovation.

Imagine If... you worked for a business that has integrity at its core, one that truly cares about its People, Corporate Social Responsibility and delivering real value to its customers.

At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to find out about the great things we’re achieving together and the fun we have as a team.