Sin - Create+65 Innovation Lead

INNOVATION LEAD: APAC

Create+65 is Clifford Chance's APAC innovation lab - a strategic space that unites our lawyers, clients, and broader legal community with our core innovation capabilities.

The purpose of Create+65 is to help drive the growth and development of the innovation ecosystem in Singapore and throughout APAC, fostering relationships and ideas to help solve common challenges faced in the legal industry.

Job Overview

Clifford Chance is currently recruiting an ambitious and entrepreneurial professional to lead the activities of our Create+65 Innovation Lab and support the wider Innovation and Best Delivery team in Asia Pacific.

The primary responsibility of the role will be:

- Programme management of the Create+65 Innovation Lab portfolio of activities across APAC, including reporting and planning.
- Working closely with the APAC and other innovation teams globally as well as practices and clients to identify new opportunities to innovate and/or solve problems associated with the delivery of legal services.
- Lead efforts to grow the external profile of the APAC innovation lab through marketing and communications activities, including thought leadership, publishing, conference collaboration and presentations.
- Leading client and other third-party collaboration projects in Asia Pacific in furtherance of our innovation strategy.
- Supporting the internal engagement activities of the global innovation programme, with a specific priority focus on APAC, to encourage awareness of and engagement with the programme and specific innovation activities including delivering training sessions.
- Previous experience working in a global professional services environment, preferably in a law firm.
- Previous experience with digital transformation and solution development projects. Knowledge and exposure to legal operations would be desirable but is not essential.
- A clear understanding of standard project management principles and processes.
- Strong relationship and communication skills with an ability to influence multiple levels of stakeholders and across cross-functional teams. The ability to laterally influence will be key.
- An entrepreneurial spirit and creative, flexible approach to problem-solving and identification of opportunity.
- The ability to think strategically as well as analytically with the ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
- Is comfortable working independently with low levels of supervision.

Qualifications:

- Educated to degree level, ideally in a Law discipline or equivalent. (Legal training preferred)

Desired Characteristics
- Able to take ownership and deliver on multiple priorities across multiple workstreams independently.
- Is comfortable working with low levels of supervision.
- Is passionate about driving change across a decentralised and complex professional environment.
- Has strong communication and interpersonal skills and enjoys working with high performing stakeholders that are time poor.
- Excellent team skills including the ability to influence laterally across multiple cross functional teams.

About the Firm

Clifford Chance is a truly integrated global law firm that operates as one organisation throughout the world. We are committed to providing the highest quality professional advice, in combining technical expertise with a deep understanding of the commercial environment in which our clients operate.
- The Firm has a pioneering history in providing solutions that help our clients manage risk and highly complex issues in the smartest and most efficient way possible. The Innovation & Best Delivery Programme has grown substantially over the past few years with a focus on six core capabilities: Continuous Improvement; Data Science, Delivery Centres; Legal Project Management; Legal Technology; and Research and Development.

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