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Team: Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Duration: Permanent
Location: Glasgow- Hybrid
Reference Number: 10379
The Role
To deliver outstanding proactive executive support to partners and fee-earners,
displaying a keen focus on high-quality client service. This is a great
opportunity for someone who is motivated and passionate about delivering a
professional service of the highest quality.
The role offers valuable experience, training, and genuine career development
prospects.
Responsibilities
Organisation and Planning
• Complex diary and travel management with supervision when needed.
• Diarising and supporting the monitoring of deadlines.
• Arranging client entertainment and assisting with organisation of client
seminars/conferences with supervision when needed.
• Preparation of agendas and meeting papers.
• Responsibility for organising internal events (e.g. training sessions, social
events).
• Creating first draft emails and letters on behalf of fee-earners ready for
review.
• Ownership of inbox filing delegating to an Administration Assistant as
appropriate.
• Interface with other business services teams and ownership on resolving any
business operations problems.
• Managing fee-earner capacity trackers.
Business Development and Client Relationship Management
• Research into clients as instructed by fee-earners.
• Acting as key client contact for non-legal queries (e.g. dealing with
telephone queries, liaising with client secretarial team to discuss billing
processes).
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with both internal and
external clients.
• Supporting client reporting requirements.
• Supporting partners on bids, tenders.
• Supporting partners with creation of client presentation materials.
• Supporting events in collaboration with Business Development.
Financial Management and Matter Opening
• Handling any complex billing arrangements with supervision when needed.
• Supervising Administration Assistants with routine billing and expenses
processing.
• Supervising Administration Assistants with post-matter completion.
• Supporting Partners on monitoring WIP management with supervision when
needed.
• Completion of NBI forms.
• Preparing letters of engagement.
• Arranging conflicts and AML checks.
• Ensuring all parties lists are kept up to date.
Document Management
• Preparing pitch documents.
• Transcribing BigHand dictations of less than 5 minutes.
• Archiving and storing of original documents.
• Creating and amending data sets in Excel.
• Creating and amending PowerPoint presentations.
• Creating, formatting and amending Word documents.
• Carrying out document comparisons and document conversions (e.g. PDF to Word,
house-style).
• Proof reading.
• Creating Tikit links.
Required experience, skills, and attributes
* 18 months experience in a secretarial/admin role.
• Demonstrable level of experience providing support to a Practice Group and
experience in a wide range of secretarial/administrative tasks.
• Proficient use of MOS including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Organisational skills.
• Confident and professional communication skills/manner at all levels.
• Proficient prioritisation skills and acute attention to detail.
• Ability to use own initiative and exhibit a professional approach during
challenging situations.
• Willing to embrace change.
• Ability to delegate.
• Adjustable and versatile approach to work.
• Well-developed relationship skills.
• Effective project management abilities.
• Dedicated with a reliable ownership approach to the operational workflow.
• Coaching and mentoring approach when working with junior members of the team.
Firm Profile
Across more than 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and
finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal
solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity,
equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com
[https://www.dentons.com]
Inclusion and Diversity
We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our
people can thrive, regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as
being the right thing to do, it makes good business sense too. A richness of
backgrounds, experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and
the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and
diversity at Dentons here: Inclusion and Diversity
[https://www.dentons.com/en/about-dentons/inclusion-and-diversity]
Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome
applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, neurotype, disability, or with
parental or caring responsibilities. We are also “Happy to Talk Flexible
Working” and welcome conversations about flexible working arrangements.
Dentons is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates with a disability may
choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme. We will offer an
interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Where application volumes are high, we may offer interviews to those who best
meet the minimum criteria, consistent with our approach for all candidates.
During the
application process, all applicants have the opportunity to tell us
about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at
their best. Any information you share with us during the
application process is
treated in confidence.
If you have any questions about this or the role criteria, please email
recruitment.matters@dentons.com [recruitment.matters@dentons.com].
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
If you are interested in applying for this position, we welcome direct
applications via our careers page, but if you have any questions beforehand,
please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com [recruitment.matters@dentons.com].
Enquiries only please – applications will not be accepted via email.
Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the business, nor
will we accept any associated terms of business.