Team Leader, Innovation

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Help us shape the future. King & Wood Mallesons is changing the future of legal services and we are looking for entrepreneurial, open minded, results

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Strategy & Planning

Company: King & Wood Mallesons

Location: Sydney

Work type: Full Time

Salary: n\a

Phone: +61-3-8119-4919

Fax: +61-3-2119-7729

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Location: Sydney (relocation assistance provided where necessary)

As a leading international law firm headquartered in Asia and recognised as one of the world’s most innovative law firms, King & Wood Mallesons offers a different perspective to commercial thinking and the client experience. With access to a global platform, a team of over 2000 lawyers in 27 locations around the world, we work with clients to help them understand local challenges, navigate through regional complexity, and to find commercial solutions that deliver a competitive advantage for our clients.

Benefits

  • Market leading work for premium clients
  • Flexible and agile working
  • Support for working parents including emergency childcare
  • Corporate gym memberships, flu vaccinations, skin checks, discounts on health, general insurance and other products and services
  • Swap pay for leave and Time in Lieu
  • Mobility around our network when opportunities arise

About the role

Help us shape the future. King & Wood Mallesons is changing the future of legal services and we are looking for entrepreneurial, open minded, results driven, creative people who can help.  If you are a proactive, client-focused professional who enjoys creativity, collaboration and testing your ideas in a small nimble team, this could be the right opportunity for you.

About you

The legal industry is changing and King & Wood Mallesons’ is seeking to investigate opportunities for transformation. Innovation is important to KWM to ensure we have the capability in place to continue to help our clients be successful. 

You will assist in leading the market in shaping what the law firm of the future looks like.  The firm is looking to find an experienced professional to engage within our firm and clients. The role will give you, as a proactive entrepreneur, the ability to use your action orientation and inquisitive nature.  You will put these skills to use in scouting, ideating, blueprinting, and testing new businesses.

As a strategic thinker who is able to understand trends and identify business opportunities you will be combining your lean forward adaptive leadership style and your active networking skills to lead a small team.  You will also use your influence and communication skills to be an inspirational change agent.

You might be the person we’re looking for if you:

  • Like the sound of leading and delivering in a small, high performing team who drives collaboration, engagement and ownership
  • Have a sound understanding of our business and are excited by expanding it into new areas
  • Enjoy getting out of the building to understand clients and conduct experiments
  • Have experience in solving ambiguous problems with an experimentation mentality
  • Are willing to learn new skills, coach others and to pursue for some time a non-conventional career to discover new opportunities and to build new businesses
  • Are excited by the opportunity to be a part of the next generation of legal services and influence the way these services are innovated, delivered and modelled.

In this role, you will lead and contribute to the New Growth Team and work closely with a guiding group of firm leaders.

You will have experience within respected corporate or professional services organisations and may have worked within a law or legal services firm previously or at least demonstrate an understanding of legal services and the partnership model.  You will also have:

  • Experience in leading complex strategic projects involving significant uncertainty and ambiguity
  • Experience with or understanding of innovative business model development
  • Understanding of the trends impacting our business now, tomorrow and into the future
  • Certification, training or experience in innovation methodologies including application of lean start-up methodology, business model canvas, agile and experimentation
  • Experience in engaging and working with multiple business units or functions
  • Have a broad network of contacts with the firm and externally (e.g. start-ups, academia, competitors)
  • Have experience in a market facing role or have market research experience

Why work with us?

We want to be the law firm clients love to work with and a great place to work and grow for our people. It’s important to us and our clients that you, our people, find working at KWM an enjoyable and rewarding experience. 

Growth conversations and real-time feedback is also a priority.  So whether it’s more targeted and meaningful conversations around professional and personal development, regular feedback, coaching or developing infrastructure - we want to help our people grow. 

How to apply?

Please apply by submitting your CV and cover letter to [email protected].

For any further questions please do not hesitate in contacting Kathryn Bellion, Head of P&D National Services & Resourcing ([email protected])

If you are not an Australian citizen or permanent resident, you must hold all visas and other approvals necessary for you to work for the firm in Australia.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently accepting applications from agencies for this role.

King & Wood Mallesons is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to principles of diversity and inclusion. Applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged.

By proceeding to submit your application for a position at KWM, you are confirming you have read our Privacy Statement for Prospective Employees at http://careers.kwm.com/en/privacy-statement-for-prospective-employees and understand its requirements.

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