The Role
Manage legal projects end to end, including planning, scheduling, budgets, risks, issues, changes, reporting, stakeholder communication, team productivity, training, and closeout. Partner with clients to understand challenges and develop practical solutions. Support business development through scope definition, requirements identification, and solution documentation. Contribute to PMO process improvement, training, and internal projects while developing toward program or portfolio management responsibilities.
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Job requirements
Job responsibilities
- Develop your full potential with the growth of the Project Management Office and Cognia, through participation in continuous improvement of process design and training.
- Developing towards taking on program or portfolio management roles.
- Participating in and/or owning selected Cognia internal projects.
Job requirements
- A tertiary qualification in Commerce or Management studies, Information Systems or LLB degree.
- 4+ years’ experience as a business-facing project manager in a legal services, financial services or professional services sector.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and a fast-changing environment.
- A flexible and agile approach.
- Customer-oriented and a passion for value-based delivery.
- Self-starter and results-driven.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A keen interest in process efficiency, supported by the use of technology.
- The maturity and professionalism to be directly customer-facing with international law firms, corporate and investment banking clients.
Job responsibilities
- End-to-end project management of legal projects: from project set-up, through execution to successful completion.
- Working as part of Cognia's Delivery team to understand our client’s challenges and requirements and help define practical and innovative solutions.
- Core responsibilities include: budget control, scheduling and planning, managing team productivity and quality, proactively managing risks, issues and changes, project reporting, team briefing and training (material creation and execution), stakeholder management, lessons learned and close-out activities.
- Support BD activities such as project scope, identifying requirements and drafting solutions documentation.
Skills Required
- Tertiary qualification in Commerce or Management Studies, Information Systems, or an LLB degree
- 4+ years of experience as a business-facing project manager
- Experience in legal services, financial services, or professional services
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and fast-changing environments
- Flexible and agile approach
- Customer-oriented with a passion for value-based delivery
- Self-starter and results-driven
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in process efficiency supported by technology
- Maturity and professionalism to work directly with international law firms and corporate and investment banking clients
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The Company
What We Do
Cognia Law is an alternative legal services provider that partners with global in-house legal teams to improve operations, contract management, and compliance. It combines legal expertise, AI, and technology enablement through legal transformation consulting, managed legal services, flexible legal staffing, financial documentation, litigation support, and intelligent review. Its legal engineers help redesign workflows and integrate technology into efficient, business-focused legal delivery.
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