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**Head of Operations, UK**: Senior role leading UK operations for global law firm Linklaters. Drive operational excellence, manage outsourced providers, and shape client/visitor experience. Requires global matrix experience, multiple provider management, top-tier stakeholder skills, and UK headquarters background. Influence high-profile London office, join dynamic team, ample benefits.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.
Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.
We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.
Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.
We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.
The Role:
Were looking for a senior operations leader to take on a highprofile role within our firm.
As Head of Operations, UK, youll lead the operational agenda for Linklaters UK footprint a flagship environment at the centre of the firm. This is a role with scale, visibility and expectation. A significant proportion of the firms global revenue is driven through the UK, and operations plays a critical role in how that platform performs day to day.
This is not a backoffice role. Operations is treated as a core part of the business and people agenda, and youll work closely with the firm's most senior leaders, as well as partners and stakeholders across the firm.
The role will see you:
- Own UK operational oversight within a global, matrixed organisation
- Lead relationships with multiple outsourced service providers, driving performance, consistency and value
- Act as a senior partner to the business, balancing pace, risk and delivery across a complex operational landscape
A key focus is the client and visitor experience. The ambition is simple and demanding: to be best in class. Operations plays a central role in setting a benchmark others look to.
As our headquarters, our London office always been in the spotlight. What sets this role apart is the level of visibility and accountability that comes with it. With sustained investment, senior attention and a platform that genuinely matters, this is a role for someone who wants influence, challenge and impact.
What we're looking for:
Youll be a credible, senior operations leader who is comfortable operating at the centre of a complex organisation.
Were looking for:
- Experience working in a global, matrixed environment
- Strong capability managing multiple outsourced providers and holding them to account
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work closely with senior leaders and partners
- Experience running a large, highprofile headquarters or flagship operation
- A commercial, pragmatic approach, with a clear focus on operational excellence and experience
This role will suit someone who enjoys visibility, influence and challenge and who wants to play a defining role in how a globally significant organisation operates at its best.
What's on offer:
Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:
Health & Wellbeing
Private Medical Insurance
Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
Finance
Pension and flexible savings options
Income protection and life assurance
Mortgage advice and will-writing services
Family & Lifestyle
Electric car and cycle to work schemes
Emergency family care
Additional holiday/birthday leave
Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
Travel insurance and season ticket loan
Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)
If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Technical Skills
Budget Management, Change Management, Contract Management, Facility Management, Lease Management, Project Management, Security Management, Strategic Sourcing, Sustainability Strategy, Vendor ManagementThis list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
Application Policy
Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).
Location: London
