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MinterEllison

Practice Team Leader

Sydney

FULL TIME & CONTRACT

October 21, 2024

Location: Sydney

Contract Type: Permanent

Minter Ellison is one of Australia’s largest law firms, with nearly 200 years of business history. We're known for our legal and consulting expertise - and for our inclusive and authentic character.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value with our clients, people and communities. That means we have a proud history of providing excellence to clients, nurturing our people and giving back to the communities in which we live and work.

We value excellence, curiosity and collaboration. Clients rely on us for our responsive, commercial approach. Our clients include government departments and agencies, private and publicly listed companies, and small and large businesses in Australia and overseas.

As a highly valued employee we will also provide you with a wide range of benefits. To view our benefits, please copy this link into your browser www.minterellison.com/-/media//Minter-Ellison/Files/Careers/Minter Ellison-Employee-Benefits-2024.ashx

Your Role

A great opportunity exists for an experienced Practice Team Leader (PTL) to join our national Disputes Competition & Insurance (DCI) Line of Business (Lo B).

You will be a key member of the DCI national leadership team working alongside the Business Unit Leaders and Partners. Your role will see you lead and build a high performing legal and consulting support team and manage the day to day administration operations of the DCI Lo B in Adelaide & Sydney, which enables Partners and client facing staff to deliver market leading business, legal and consulting services.

Some of your areas of responsibilities for will include:

  • Lead and manage the administrative function of the DCI Lo B including Dispute Resolution, Insurance & Corporate Risk and Competition, Climate & Technology Business Units in Adelaide & Sydney
  • Work with Partners to deliver strategic outcomes for their administration support, in line with the firm and legal and consulting support strategy
  • Actively build trusting relationships with teams across the firm
  • Key contact for firm wide projects regarding change impacts to DCI
  • Collaborate, escalate, resolve and drive consistent administration support service delivery and processes
  • Manage approvals for the administration team in consultation with Partners to ensure adequate resourcing
  • Manage ongoing resourcing requirements including end to end recruitment and the onboarding process
  • Active management and compliance in relation to the Legal Services Award
  • Collaborate with PTL colleagues to facilitating knowledge sharing and continuous improvement opportunities

What you need

We are looking for an experienced Team Leader or experienced Legal Secretary who also has strong relationship building skills. To be successful in this role you will have:
  • Proven people leadership experience and ability to engage a team of administrators working in an agile way
  • Previous 5+ years' experience as a Legal Secretary/Executive Assistant in a Legal & Consulting or professional services firm
  • Ability to quickly develop authentic and enduring relationships with Partners and key stakeholders and establish credibility and rapport
  • Strong commercial acumen, strategic thinking, discernment, and problem solving and decision making skills
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt communications to suit audience
  • Ability to manage challenging conversations, influence and negotiate positive outcomes
  • Ability to adapt and be flexible to meet changing requirements and needs
  • Ability to create and maintain an inclusive and positive team environment

Why Minter Ellison

We offer flexible working options to encourage balance, wellbeing and support for sustainable ways of working and a range of social, financial and health benefits, including free gym membership - all with no minimum tenure.

We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, cultural backgrounds, genders (including trans or gender diverse), LGBTQ+ people and those with carer responsibilities. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

How to apply

We prefer to connect with people directly, so please submit your CV by clicking on the 'Apply' button. We encourage all applications, including if you do not meet the criteria listed for the role. Your application will also enable us to consider you for other opportunities that may be available at Minter Ellison.

If you are currently a Minter Ellison employee, please apply through the internal careers page.

If you would like further information, require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or for a confidential discussion, please contact Jess.Brown@minterellison.com.
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