Senior Legal Operations, Legal Market Engagement Team (Financial Services)

Contract Role: Senior Legal Operations Secondee, Legal Market Engagement (Financial Services)
Contract Location: London/Remote
Contract Duration: 6 months initially (PAYE inside IR35)
Contract Start: 5th January 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for an engagement with one of our premiere Investment banking clients 

Our client’s Global Legal function plays an important role in protecting the Group’s reputation by helping to future-proof the organisation through robust legal risk and issue advisory. Responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice to senior management and all global businesses and functions, the team offers a diverse range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all countries and territories in which our businesses operate

Role Overview:

Join the Legal Market Engagement (LME) team to drive strategic development and delivery. Collaborate with mid-level and senior team members, including the Head of Market Engagement for Legal and PG&C. Engage with global stakeholders to effectively support and deliver the legal strategy.

The LME team plays a pivotal role in connecting the legal teams and external suppliers. The team ensures consistent management of suppliers, pricing and the bank’s most complex legal matters. By enhancing commercial awareness, fostering strong supplier relationships and overseeing performance, the LME team plays a key role in optimising legal operations and delivering value across the organisation.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets. The selected candidate will not be required to perform all the listed responsibilities, but they should be adaptable and able to support a range of activities across the team as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Commercial Expertise: Manage, execute, and assure quality in commercial operations, including risk management. Collaborate with cross-functional groups to develop and deliver commercial best practices.
  
• Relationship Management: Own and manage key supplier relationships, ensuring performance aligns with core values. Foster strong relationships across the business, integrating strategies into commercial planning.
  
• Project Management: Effectively manage a portfolio of matters, supporting scoping, effective fee arrangements (EFA’s), and forecasting.
  
• Pricing Support: Lead the development and implementation of commercial strategies, including upskilling the legal function with scoping, tendering, and reporting.
  
• MI Insights: Develop and assure accuracy of MI insights for strategic decision-making.
  
• Financial Reporting: Support timely reporting of matter costs, budget forecasts, and savings.
  
• Strategic Partnership: Assist in establishing the function as a strategic partner within the organisation. Collaborate with the COO team to help develop various solutions, including legal process improvement and technology optimisation.
  
• Process Development: Create and maintain commercial processes, tools, and strategies, ensuring accurate knowledge sharing.
  
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to commercial processes, governance, and reporting.
  

Experience and Skills Requirements:

• Must have extensive experience in large operations/procurement; legal operations experience.
  
• Financial Services experience is required.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and business development skills.
  
• Significant project management experience with best practices knowledge.
  
• Ability to analyse data and provide strategic recommendations.
  
• Experience with e-Billing software or similar.
  
• Strong judgement and communication skills.
  
• Experience in a matrix organization.
  
• Attention to detail and analytical skills. Proficiency in Excel for data analysis and report creation.
  
• Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.