Are you ready to make your mark as part of our Work Allocation team? Then you’ve come to the right place. At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our international team from day one.
We are looking for an Allocation & Development Manager to join our London office to support our Capital Markets practice groups. This position presents an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the development of legal talent for one of our practices. The Allocation & Development Manager will engage directly with Associates to understand their interests and objectives, in order to provide access to the experiences and relationships they need to build their careers. The role is heavily people focused, built on establishing strong working relationships with a number of key stakeholders across the Firm.
This role will focus specifically on the effective management of our Capital Markets Partners and Associates throughout EMEA. The Allocation & Development Manager will seek to ensure that the associates are appropriately staffed and utilised at all times, while balancing the pursuit of a rich and well-rounded associate experience with the immediate needs of the business. The role will also require the Allocation & Development Manager to network across the section’s EMEA offices and be a point of contact for Partners and Associates.
The successful candidate will be a team-player who is ambitious, focused on client service, and passionate about their work. They will be eager to take on the challenges of exceling in a global law firm and high-performance culture. This individual will possess a genuine interest in associate development and matter/resource management.
Key Responsibilities
Resource Management
- Acting as a neutral third party for Associates and Partners, promoting equitable work allocation and professional development
- Managing staffing requests and coordinating with Staffing Partners and the wider team
- Liaising between Associates and Partners, coordinating staffing processes and representing Associates in complex Partner interactions
- Monitoring and reporting on work allocation KPIs to practice leadership
- Conducting weekly check-ins with Associates on capacity, career interests, development needs, and work allocation feedback
- Ensuring efficient and timely staffing by monitoring lawyer utilisation and assessing capacity
- Maintaining clear communication, keeping stakeholders informed on initiatives, developments, and critical topics
- Collaborating with the London People team and HR Partners on staffing-related issues, ensuring a streamlined experience for the EMEA Capital Markets team
- Providing regular data reports and insights on staffing trends and utilisation to leadership and key stakeholders
- Networking with global contacts on key trends and best practices in work allocation
Practice Management
- Supporting engagement initiatives
- Collaborating with Partners and the People team on the annual evaluation process, participating in local moderation and providing feedback
- Driving Associate career development by promoting the use of the Real-Time Feedback tool
- Liaising with the Regional Section Head and Staffing Partners to monitor associate performance, development, and career aspirations
- Working with People and Business Development teams to resource approved client secondments
- Assisting with recruitment initiatives as needed
- Liaising with trainee supervisors to monitor performance and allocate work
- Working with Engagement & Development and Professional Support Lawyers to ensure associates receive appropriate training opportunities
Qualifications and skills
- Prior experience in associate development, work allocation, and/or resource management, ideally within a law firm or large professional services environment
- Strong commercial and business awareness
- Outstanding skills in diplomacy and negotiation
- Strong project management and presentation skills
- Client service focus and strong judgment
- Proactive and resourceful; ability to take initiative
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Persistent and resilient
- Persuasive; ability to drive change through influence
- Strong technology skills; Excel proficiency is required
- Experience working with resource management software is a plus
- Flexibility with working outside of standard business hours to address staffing requests, as needed. Flexibility to travel is also required.
What We Offer
When you join us, you’ll be working directly with partners, business leaders and many other inspiring colleagues across our global network of offices. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and development opportunities that will help you achieve your potential.
We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as an Allocation and Development professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.
About White & Case
We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.
Location and Reporting
This role is based in our London office, and reports into the Senior Manager of Allocation & Development EMEA. Please note that although this role is based in London, there will be a requirement to regularly travel to our EMEA offices.
Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for 3 days in the office per week.
Firm Benefits
We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:
- Private medical insurance
- Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
- Yearly wellbeing fund
- Income protection
- Holiday purchase
- Life insurance
- Critical Illness insurance
- Private GP services
- Travel insurance
- Dental coverage
- Cycle to work
- Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)
Equal Opportunity Statement
White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.
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