# Head of Practice Management, US

**Company**: Freshfields US LLP
**Location**: New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $300,000 to $350,000
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

The Head of Practice Management, US will serve as trusted advisor and operational chief to the US DR Practice Group Leader and will support and advise all US DR partners.

The person in the role will have primary responsibility for management and coordination of budgets and resources within US DR and will work directly with practice group leadership to drive profitability, accountability and operational efficiency.

**Strategic Planning**

- Collaborate with Practice Group Leader, partners and other key stakeholders to develop practice group strategic plan with clear and achievable goals focused on revenue, profitability, headcount, reputation, brand awareness, profile and competitive differentiation.

- Employ data collection and analysis to drive strategic initiatives and operational decision-making.

- Identify gaps and design solutions to support growth of business.

- With Practice Group Leader and Finance and Marketing and Business Development (MBD) colleagues, develop and measure key performance indicators to assess the effectiveness of practice group strategic initiatives and expenditures.

**Financial Reporting and Budgeting**

- Collaborate with Finance colleagues to analyze practice group financial performance; report regularly on key performance indicators, make recommendations for appropriate actions to improve group financial progress, monitor progress and execute on related action items.

- Support Practice Group Leader in developing and monitoring the annual budget.

- Take primary role in monitoring the practice group’s operational expenditures.

- Identify opportunities for operational efficiency and cost management.

**Practice Support and Operations**

- Provide operational oversight of practice group support functions (e.g., paralegals, eDiscovery, Managing Attorney’s Office) to ensure optimal delivery of legal services.

- Collaborate with business services departments (e.g., Legal Recruiting, Learning and Development, Talent Development, D&I, HR, IT, Knowledge, Legal, etc.) to ensure appropriate support for the practice group.

- Identify opportunities for improvement, innovation, and efficiency in business operations, matter management, infrastructure, methodologies, and develop solutions and plans for corresponding action.

- Promote innovation within the team by providing direction and input into ways of working, resource management, and use of technology.

**Talent Recruitment and Development**

- Support the Practice Group Leader and partners in building high performing legal teams.

- Oversee associate work allocation and associate utilization with support of practice management coordinator.

- Work closely with Recruiting on all lateral associate and counsel hiring including preparation of business cases for lateral hires and advising on headcount needs.

- Oversee process for lateral attorney integration.

- Work closely with Recruiting and Talent on associate rotations.

- Collaborate with Talent Development, HR and partners in delivery of annual performance appraisals.

- Escalate utilization and performance issues.

- Facilitate professional development and career progression of associates and counsel, collaborating as appropriate with talent development committee, DR partners, and regional and global business services departments.

The salary range for this role is $300,000 to $350,000.

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## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- financial reporting
- budgeting
- practice management
- talent development

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