Resource Advisor

Role overview

We are recruiting for a Resource Advisor to join our Resource Management Practice.

In collaboration with partners and the wider Resource Management team, the Resource Advisor will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day management of work allocation, helping to ensure lawyers are deployed efficiently and effectively across our dedicated practice areas. The focus will be on optimising utilisation while balancing experience, capacity, development goals, individual preferences and client requirements.

The role will have primary responsibility for supporting our Competition practice, with opportunities to work across other practice areas on wider resourcing priorities and initiatives. While each group has its own distinct practice area and client demands, their resourcing models operate in a similar way, offering a varied and well-rounded resource management experience.

Key responsibilities

The key responsibilities of this role are set out below and there may be others which are not listed. You may be required on occasion to work outside our normal working hours of 9:30am to 5:30pm.

• Take ownership of the day-to-day allocation of work across the Competition practice, ensuring matters are resourced effectively, taking into account skills, capacity, experience, development objectives and business priorities.
• Anticipate and manage potential resource allocation conflicts, balancing competing priorities and exercising sound judgement to reach practical solutions, drawing on the wider Resource Management team where appropriate.
• Develop trusted relationships with partners and associates, building a strong understanding of work they do, practice priorities and individual resourcing requirements.
• Produce clear and regular reporting on utilisation and projected capacity, providing analysis and insights to highlight trends and any risks. Work closely with the Resource Manager to recommend and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Review workflows and processes to identify opportunities to optimise operations, recommending improvements to the Resource Manager to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide flexible resourcing support across other practice groups, including during periods of absence, increased demand or wider operational need.
• Work closely with HR Partners and the HR Manager to support lawyers’ career and development objectives, ensuring resourcing decisions provide appropriate opportunities for experience, progression and development.

Candidate profile

To be successful in this role, you must have experience in resource management / staffing or workforce allocation. Ideally, this experience will be within the legal or professional services sector. In addition, we are looking for:

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high level of accuracy and efficiency.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build relationships quickly and adapt communication styles to establish credibility with diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of interpreting data and identifying trends and potential resourcing challenges.
• A confident, professional communication style, with excellent written and oral skills, demonstrating discretion, diplomacy and tact.
• Comfortable using MO and AI-enabled tools to support day-to-day work, with the ability to apply sound judgement and critical thinking when interpreting outputs.

We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment processes are barrier-free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you have any questions or require any adjustments to be made to one or both of the application or interview processes, please contact the Recruitment Team.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who best meet the minimum or essential criteria for our Business Services roles. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident 'Offer An Interview' commitment, please apply via our online application form and not via LinkedIn. You are disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. For more information about the Disability Confident scheme, please see the government website here.

We welcome applications irrespective of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, belief or marital status.