Legal Director

About the job

Job Title: Head of Conveyancing
Location: Midlands (Hybrid – 2 days per week on-site)
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

About the Role

We are working with a highly regarded and purpose-driven law firm to assist them in finding a Head of Conveyancing to lead their established conveyancing practice.

The role will involve overseeing three specialist teams—plot sales, home ownership, and right to buy. While a good level of technical conveyancing knowledge is important, this role is first and foremost a senior leadership position requiring strong team management, strategic oversight, and service excellence.

You’ll be responsible for enhancing performance, maintaining high client service standards, and supporting business growth across a portfolio of complex residential property matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for the plot sales, home ownership, and right to buy conveyancing teams.
• Drive improvements in quality of work, compliance, and client satisfaction.

Supervise legal work across

• Shared ownership and outright sale plot sales
• Right to buy and right to acquire sales
• Auction sales
• Property sales, resales, and purchases
• Staircasing, lease extensions, deeds of variation
• Requisitions and post-sale queries
• Monitor and ensure client KPIs and financial targets are consistently achieved.
• Manage staffing and workloads, including overseeing recruitment, onboarding, and training with HR and resourcing teams.
• Review and implement new technologies and operational efficiencies across the department.
• Oversee the preparation and delivery of weekly and bespoke client reports.
• Support business development, client relationship management (CRM), and marketing initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to implement the firm’s wider conveyancing growth strategy.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience leading a volume conveyancing team with a track record of operational and financial success.
• Strong team management capabilities, including performance improvement and mentoring.
• Solid understanding of conveyancing legal principles, particularly relating to high-volume residential work.
• Experience acting for Housing Associations is advantageous but not essential.
• Commercially aware and able to manage both team performance and client service standards.
• Comfortable working in a data- and KPI-driven environment.
• Excellent organisational, drafting, and stakeholder communication skills.

Person Specification

• Leadership Focused – Proven ability to manage high-performing and underperforming teams effectively.
• Client-Centric – Committed to delivering exceptional client experience at every touchpoint.
• Strategic & Commercial – Balances day-to-day operational management with long-term strategic thinking.
• Collaborative – Works well with partners, clients, and internal teams to ensure alignment and results.
• Process-Driven – Looks for ways to enhance systems, quality, and workflows.

Working Hours

Monday to Friday (Hybrid: 2 days per week in the Midlands-based office)

If you are a confident and strategic conveyancing leader ready to make an impact in a progressive, values-led firm, we’d love to hear from you!