Product Owner
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About the role
We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, with more than 5,000 people across over 30 countries. We’re full-service with deep niche and sector experience. Whatever challenge, wherever in the world, we’re equipped and ready to meet it. We live our values, we’re purposeful and purpose-led. So although the world is fast-moving and rapidly changing, we see it as a place where everyone can thrive. We’re ambitious for our clients, our communities – and for you. Whether you’re starting out on your career or well established, whether you’re a lawyer or in business services. If you’re looking for what’s next, we are too.
What To Expect
For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets. Not least yours. It’s energetic, fast-moving and there’s always something new to get involved in. You will get exposure across geographies and the firm as a whole. The future is a place of opportunity. Focusing on your success and for what’s next, will ensure you thrive too.
About The Role
The Product Owner acts as a key member of the SES team supporting the delivery of the Platforms strategy across the firm. The Product Owner will use their expertise, knowledge and hands on experience to raise and support awareness and adoption of relevant solutions whilst focussing on delivering an excellent client service.
The Product Owner will take ownership and responsibility for how we drive the adoption and embed our key technology solutions across the firm. This includes but is not limited to our bespoke client portals, instruction and matter management solutions, extranet solutions and document automation solutions.
They will be working closely with our Practice Group Legal Technologists to understand business needs, help to define roadmaps and identify new uses to support our Legal Teams. This may also involve working with and managing our Suppliers to help ensure the solutions meet our needs. They will also be involved in helping with awareness campaigns, understanding our current technology usage and how we could improve this, as well as helping to define good processes and governance to improve our centre of excellence across our solutions.
Stakeholder management, at all levels of seniority, and communication will be integral in helping to succeed in this role. You will be expected to engage with various stakeholders such as our Legal Teams, Legal Technologists, BRMs, and Suppliers, to understand how we can make better use of our technology solutions and drive value.eporting to the Solutions Manager the Product Owner will support the delivery of our Platforms strategy in line with the SES firm-wide strategy.
Key Responsibilities
What To Expect
For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets. Not least yours. It’s energetic, fast-moving and there’s always something new to get involved in. You will get exposure across geographies and the firm as a whole. The future is a place of opportunity. Focusing on your success and for what’s next, will ensure you thrive too.
About The Role
The Product Owner acts as a key member of the SES team supporting the delivery of the Platforms strategy across the firm. The Product Owner will use their expertise, knowledge and hands on experience to raise and support awareness and adoption of relevant solutions whilst focussing on delivering an excellent client service.
The Product Owner will take ownership and responsibility for how we drive the adoption and embed our key technology solutions across the firm. This includes but is not limited to our bespoke client portals, instruction and matter management solutions, extranet solutions and document automation solutions.
They will be working closely with our Practice Group Legal Technologists to understand business needs, help to define roadmaps and identify new uses to support our Legal Teams. This may also involve working with and managing our Suppliers to help ensure the solutions meet our needs. They will also be involved in helping with awareness campaigns, understanding our current technology usage and how we could improve this, as well as helping to define good processes and governance to improve our centre of excellence across our solutions.
Stakeholder management, at all levels of seniority, and communication will be integral in helping to succeed in this role. You will be expected to engage with various stakeholders such as our Legal Teams, Legal Technologists, BRMs, and Suppliers, to understand how we can make better use of our technology solutions and drive value.eporting to the Solutions Manager the Product Owner will support the delivery of our Platforms strategy in line with the SES firm-wide strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads and supports on projects within the Platforms workstream to both raise the profile of the team’s objectives firm-wide as well as ensuring it becomes embedded in day to day practice in line with the firm-wide strategy.
- Have a specific focus of internally driving the awareness and adoption of legal tech solutions and ensuring that they are embedded in day-to-day practice whilst enhancing the overall offering for existing and new clients. This may involve an operational involvement in pitches to enhance the likelihood of the firm winning future work.
- Manages a high, and sometimes complex, workload day to day with the ability to prioritise work and achieve time sensitive deadlines whilst keeping a focus on the long term wider strategic goals of the team.
- Takes a proactive role in upskilling stakeholders in tech solutions across the practice groups in line with the SES strategy. To achieve this, the Product Owner will be required to work collaboratively with multiple senior stakeholders within the practice groups and international operations teams.
- Uses analytical skills to report on the team’s tech solutions usage to relevant stakeholders to better understand adoption, gaps as well as barriers to adoption. To achieve this the Product Owner would need to break this down and look at internal awareness of solutions, adoption of solutions and how the solutions are used to influence and support the winning of new business.
- Builds excellent relationships within the practice groups, with international operations teams and with the firm’s clients working collaboratively with them to understand their requirements alongside any challenges in order to deliver a legal technology solution that is fit for purpose.
- Assists with the introduction and embedding of new legal tech solutions to ensure a seamless integration and use for lawyers and fee earners.
- Deploys agile project management methodologies as well as IT best practice to provide an excellent and efficient service to all stakeholders
- HighQ and/or Contract Express knowledge and experience would be beneficial but not mandatory.
- Strong day to day self-management with a focus on service excellence and delivery whilst role modelling exemplary behaviours in line with the firm’s purpose and values.
At Eversheds Sutherland, we provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world.
- We’re fair, transparent and equitable
- We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
- We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
- We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
- We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
At Eversheds Sutherland, “Inclusive” is a core business value. We bring together different skillsets, global mindsets and approaches. We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. We have an inherent respect for the individual. We have a strong belief in collaboration and teamwork. Sharing ideas, asking questions, solving challenges and meeting our clients’ goals: together.
We want all our people to thrive at work and reach their full potential and we work hard to continue to build a diverse and inclusive culture, monitor and report on our progress and impact, and develop our approach. This is reflected in our policies, systems and processes, and in our work with diversity membership organisations.
Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we are open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process.
We want you to perform at your best during our recruitment process. If there is any adjustment or support you need, please contact us so we can discuss how we can best assist you.
For you,
For your success.
And what's next.
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