Pinsent Masons
Delivery Manager, Document Review
Any UK office (3 days per week in the office)
Salary range starting at £50,000 a year
Role Overview
Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team.
As the Vario team grows, we are recruiting a Delivery Manager to support our MLS Delivery teams in ensuring that we are delivering a world class legal service to our practice groups and external clients. The role will support our engagement strategies with both sectors and groups and focus on the pastoral care and development of our legal delivery teams and their capabilities. The successful candidate will:
Line manage a team of paralegals focused on delivery of work to both lawyers and external clients. This will include day to day supervision, training & development, and management of direct reports
Supervise the delivery of legal services to end users
Service delivery management support on engagements as required. This includes resource planning, quality assurance, output/efficiency reviews and progress reporting
Continually develop delivery models to ensure best in class service
Develop effective working relationships across relevant practice groups and sectors
Work with Resource Management to effectively manage the allocation of work, and monitor/manage capacity and workload levels
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
Significant Document Review and/or alternative legal services experience
Demonstrable experience of managing a high performing team of legal professionals
Experience in managing the delivery of legal services in a high volume, multi-location environment
Experience of influencing stakeholders in a large commercial law firm to promote the benefits of utilising alternative service delivery models
Significant experience of working with performance metrics to ensure best in class service delivery
What can we offer you?
Tailored career development and support within our award-winning team
Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
Carers' leave (up to five paid days' leave towards caring responsibilities)
25 days' annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
Contributory pension of up to 5%.
Private healthcare policy
Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
Cycle to work scheme.
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.
We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Our strength lies in our differences.
We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.
Our in-house recruiter, Victoria Greaves, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Victoria by emailing
Delivery Manager, Document Review
Any UK office (3 days per week in the office)
Salary range starting at £50,000 a year
Role Overview
Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team.
As the Vario team grows, we are recruiting a Delivery Manager to support our MLS Delivery teams in ensuring that we are delivering a world class legal service to our practice groups and external clients. The role will support our engagement strategies with both sectors and groups and focus on the pastoral care and development of our legal delivery teams and their capabilities. The successful candidate will:
Line manage a team of paralegals focused on delivery of work to both lawyers and external clients. This will include day to day supervision, training & development, and management of direct reports
Supervise the delivery of legal services to end users
Service delivery management support on engagements as required. This includes resource planning, quality assurance, output/efficiency reviews and progress reporting
Continually develop delivery models to ensure best in class service
Develop effective working relationships across relevant practice groups and sectors
Work with Resource Management to effectively manage the allocation of work, and monitor/manage capacity and workload levels
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
Significant Document Review and/or alternative legal services experience
Demonstrable experience of managing a high performing team of legal professionals
Experience in managing the delivery of legal services in a high volume, multi-location environment
Experience of influencing stakeholders in a large commercial law firm to promote the benefits of utilising alternative service delivery models
Significant experience of working with performance metrics to ensure best in class service delivery
What can we offer you?
Tailored career development and support within our award-winning team
Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
Carers' leave (up to five paid days' leave towards caring responsibilities)
25 days' annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
Contributory pension of up to 5%.
Private healthcare policy
Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
Cycle to work scheme.
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.
We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Our strength lies in our differences.
We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.
Our in-house recruiter, Victoria Greaves, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Victoria by emailing