Taylor Wessing

Workplace Project Manager

Taylor Wessing  •  London, GB (Hybrid)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

The opportunity for you

We are seeking a highly capable Workplace Project Manager to join our Property & Workplace team at a pivotal moment in our firm’s journey, as we transition through merger to become Winston Taylor—one of the world’s largest transatlantic law firms.
In this role, you will sit at the heart of our workplace transformation, delivering complex property projects across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. Working closely with the Head of Property & Workplace Services, partners, and senior leaders, you will help shape the vision and experience of our future workplace, ensuring our spaces reflect our culture, support legal excellence, and enable our people to thrive.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of property and workplace projects—including office fit‑outs, refurbishments, relocations, and reconfigurations in live environments.
  • Act as the firm’s internal project lead and trusted adviser, translating business needs into well‑designed, functional, and compliant workplace solutions.
  • Manage full project lifecycle from feasibility and briefing through design, procurement, construction, handover and post‑occupancy review.
  • Collaborate with partners, senior stakeholders, and business services teams to ensure workplace solutions support legal workflows, client service excellence, confidentiality and brand standards.
  • Lead change management activity to ensure lawyers and staff are supported and engaged through workplace transitions.

Knowledge, skills and experience

  • Proven experience delivering property or workplace projects within a law firm or professional services environment.
  • Strong track record managing office fit-outs, refurbishments and relocations in occupied buildings
  • Understanding of legal sector requirements including confidentiality, security, partner engagement, and client‑facing workplace considerations.
  • Solid knowledge of construction and fit‑out processes, procurement routes, and consultant/contractor management.
  • Awareness of modern workplace strategies, hybrid working models, and how physical space supports legal practice and collaboration.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast‑paced environment.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

  • Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
  • Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Workplace Services team, with the addition of a Workplace Project Manager.

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Taylor Wessing

About Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses.

Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive.

Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results.

Our 27 offices around the world are not token presences - they blend the best of local business, industry and cultural knowledge with international experience to provide astutely commercial solutions for our clients.

OFFICES INCLUDE:

AUSTRIA

Schwarzenbergplatz 7, 1030 Vienna

BELGIUM

Rue des Colonies 56, 1000 Brussels

CHINA

Unit 3018, South Tower Beijing Kerry Centre, No.1 Guanghua Road

Chaoyang District,100020 Beijing

Unit 3003, Wheelock Square, 1717 Nanjing West Road, 200040 Shanghai

CZECH REPUBLIC

U Prašné brány 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Prague

Dominikánské námĕstí 4/5, 602 00 Brno

FRANCE

12 rue de la Paix, 75002 Paris

GERMANY

Ebertstraße 15, 10117 Berlin

Benrather Straße 15, 40213 Düsseldorf

Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6, 60313 Frankfurt am Main

Hanseatic Trade Center, Am Sandtorkai 41, 20457 Hamburg

Isartorplatz 8, 80331 Munich

HONG KONG

21st Floor, 8 Queen's Road Central

HUNGARY

Dorottya u. 1. III. em, 1051 Budapest

POLAND

ul. Mokotowska 1, 00-640 Warsaw

NETHERLANDS

Parnassusweg 823, 1082 LZ Amsterdam

Kennedyplein 201, PO Box 3, 5611 ZT Eindhoven

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Ardilaun Court, Suite 417, Block C, 112-114 St Stephen's Green, D02 TD28

SLOVAKIA

Panenská 6, 81103 Bratislava

UNITED KINGDOM

Hill House, 1 Little New Street, London EC4A 3TR

24 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JP

Edward Pavilion, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4AF

UKRAINE

Illinsky Business Center, vul. Illinska 8, 6th floor, 04070 Kiev

UAE

26th Floor, Rolex Tower Sheikh Zayed Road, P.O. Box 33675, Dubai

USA

41 Madison Avenue, 31st Floor, New York

1550 El Camino Real, Suite 275, Menlo Park, Silicon Valley

Industry
Legal & Compliance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
2002
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