Senior Director

Description:

The eDiscovery practice is commonly engaged to assist financial investigations, litigations and disputes, turnaround and process improvement engagements, and other critical business issues. The eDiscovery team specialises in designing and implementing processes that help clients reduce their data and review volumes. Our professionals provide workflow design and strategy for keyword search, workflow assignment setup, content analytics, conceptual search/clustering, and predictive coding, and work with clients to efficiently extract and effectively analyse client data.

We help businesses, government entities and law firms to address their most complex and pressing concerns and make well informed decisions, using some of the most advanced technology, tools and techniques.

The team’s consulting experience involves large, diverse, and often incomplete data sets across client enterprises including email, servers, cloud storage, social media, mobile devices, instant messaging and collaboration tools. The team collaborates with cybersecurity, computer forensics, data analytics and investigatory experts to assess and respond to both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of problems.

Your role will involve working collaboratively with and learning from our diverse and knowledgeable team that has a wealth of experience in delivering excellent service to our clients.

Why Join Ankura
 

• We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.
• Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programmes and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.
• Work with leading experts in an established leading global consultancy.
• Work in a collaborative environment, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.
   

Role Overview

As Director, you will manage and project lead more junior members of the team to become familiar with the clients' big-picture objectives and challenges. You will ensure the execution of critical project deliverables to ensure these objectives are met on time and with the highest quality. You will be responsible for designing and executing efficient and innovative workflow solutions to address our client’s issues. This role is based in our Dublin office.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:
 

• Generate leads and develop relationships with legal practitioners for Ankura's eDiscovery and Risk Advisory services.
• Educate clients and prospects about Ankura's services through visits, conferences, and events.
• Increase revenue by cross-selling services and maintaining a CRM database of prospects and pipeline activities.
• Participate in industry conferences and maintain post-sales contact for quality assurance and future business.
• Assist clients in managing data relevant to litigation and business operations, and develop collection strategies.
• Coordinate forensic collections and pre-processing workflows with Ankura's forensics team.
• Advise on data reduction strategies and coordinate processing work with Ankura's team.
• Assist clients in selecting technology and developing review strategies for various tiers of review and trial preparation.
• Provide guidance on production format and timelines, manage project finances, and ensure proper project close-out.
• Support documentation of processes and mentor junior colleagues, while participating in recruiting and supervising personnel.