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Driving value across the Legal sector

We are seeking a Director to join the industry-leading Strategy & Business Design team focused on serving law firms and corporate legal departments.

Our Legal sector team is passionate about the transformation of legal services and the evolving needs of law firms and in-house legal functions. When it comes to operating model change, growth strategy, Agentic AI adoption and service innovation, we are at the centre of the action. The sector’s challenges and opportunities are reshaping how legal work is delivered, priced and scaled. As a Director, you will be expected not only to lead the most critical client engagements, but also to shape our market position, build senior client relationships and originate opportunities that drive sustained growth.

We undertake evidence-driven strategy assignments for leading law firms and corporate legal departments, developing solutions to their most challenging AI, strategic, operational and growth issues. We work closely with our colleagues across Transformation, Technology, Change and M&A driving the legal sector. Additionally, we act as a portal to enable our clients to draw on the breadth of Deloitte services across Consulting, Corporate Finance, Audit Advisory, Risk and Tax. In this role, you will be expected to convert market insight into client demand, deepen relationships with senior buyers and influencers, and play a leading role in bringing the full breadth of Deloitte to clients.

If you have a strong track record of shaping and executing strategy, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at the Executive and Managing Partner level and growing a market-facing consulting business in the legal sector, we offer you an outstanding opportunity to play a leading role in an innovative and market-leading practice. Alongside leading complex client work, you will be expected to contribute materially to market development, thought leadership, proposition building and the development of our people.

You will be leading strategic programmes for leading global law firms and in-house legal teams, while helping to define and grow Deloitte’s position in the legal sector. The role requires a combination of exceptional client leadership, commercial judgement, market development and team leadership, supported by the breadth of the Deloitte platform.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. 

Connect to your opportunity

The Director will be delivering outcomes including: 

• Client leadership – leading distinctive, high-impact client service through rigorous strategic problem solving, high quality recommendations and confident engagement with senior client stakeholders. The Director will be expected to oversee executive-level client relationships, shape the client agenda and lead the most important meetings and presentations;
• Project, quality & risk leadership – directing complex programmes to deliver impact on time and to budget, while maintaining strong oversight of quality, risk and commercial performance;
• People leadership – building, leading, coaching and developing teams within project delivery and across the practice, creating followership and recruiting capability for the future;
• Relationship building – building and sustaining senior relationships across law firms, corporate legal departments and the wider legal ecosystem, as well as across Deloitte, to strengthen our market presence and create opportunities for collaboration and growth;
• Market development and sales – playing a leading role in shaping our strategy for the legal sector, identifying priority opportunities, building external profile, developing and converting a pipeline of work, and leading major proposals and origination activity; and

Connect to your skills and professional experience   

Essential experience for the Director role includes: 

• Working knowledge of the legal sector in the UK and ideally globally, including the strategic priorities, economics and competitive dynamics of law firms and in-house legal teams.
• Significant experience in strategy consulting or in leading consulting-equivalent work with top tier clients
• A proven ability to lead multiple complex strategic programmes and to act as a trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders;
• A strong track record of market development, relationship building and converting opportunities into revenue, drawing on a credible external network and personal profile;
• The ability to lead beyond client delivery, including taking ownership of practice development, proposition building, quality and risk, and the development of people and culture;

Additional desirable experience for the Director role includes: 

• Recognised expertise in one or more areas of the legal market, such as law firm strategy, legal operating models, legal technology, managed legal services or corporate legal department transformation.
• A strong and relevant network across law firms, corporate legal departments and the wider legal ecosystem, with evidence of using relationships to create market opportunities;

Soft skills for the Director role includes: 

• A market builder: You will build senior relationships inside and outside Deloitte, use those relationships to generate insight and opportunity, and help grow our brand and profile. 
• A compelling communicator and influencer: You will communicate with authority, present credibly to senior audiences and build trust with clients, colleagues and the wider market. 

Connect to your business – Strategy and Business Design 

The experts in our teams in Strategy and Business Design are trusted advisors to CEOs and their wider organisations. Whether that’s launching a new arm of a business, anticipating new and emerging risks or collaborating with other teams, we work on a huge range of varied projects. 

Personal independence  

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request. 

Connect with your colleagues

“Working with law firms and legal departments gives me the opportunity to help clients navigate profound shifts in how legal services are delivered – from technology adoption and operating model redesign to growth strategy and regulatory change. At Director level, what makes the role especially compelling is the opportunity to shape the market, build enduring client relationships and turn insight into meaningful growth for both our clients and our practice.” Director, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Our hybrid working policy  

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working. 

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role. 

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for. 

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through worldclass development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead. 

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level. 

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers 

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