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Legal Document Production Team Leader

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 3+ years' experience in legal document production
  • Minimum of 2+ years' team management experience
  • Proficiency in MD Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Experience meeting tight deadlines while maintaining high standards of accuracy

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach and support a team of legal document production specialists
  • Oversee the day-to-day team operations, ensuring workloads are effectively planned and delivered
  • Monitor productivity, quality, and team performance; investigate errors constructively
  • Build and maintain strong day-to-day relationships with clients

Key facts

  • Remote from: Africa
  • Full time
  • Mid-level (2-5 years)
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Quality Assurance
  • Organizational Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Decision Making
  • Communication
  • Coaching
  • Detail Oriented
  • Physical Flexibility
  • Collaboration

About the company

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SmartPA

Office Administration & Support

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Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryOffice Administration & Support
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

Key Responsibilities and Skills

The Legal Document Production Team Leader is responsible for leading a high-performing document production team while maintaining exceptional standards of accuracy, quality, and turnaround. The role combines people leadership, operational oversight, and a strong focus on continuous improvement to ensure a consistently high level of client service.

Team Leadership
  • Lead, coach and support a team of legal document production specialists, setting clear expectations and performance standards 
  • Conduct regular 121's, team meetings, and performance discussions to support engagement, accountability, and development
  • Provide hands-on support with complex or high-risk document production tasks as required 
Operations & Service Delivery 
  • Oversee the day-to-day team operations, ensuring workloads are effectively planned, delegated, and delivered to agreed service levels 
  • Maintain the highest standards of accuracy, output, and turnaround across all document production work
  • Act as the first point of escalation for workflow challenges, quality concerns, or client expectations 
  • Provide hands-on support with complex document production where required
  • Ensure the team meets or exceeds individual and team targets and service level agreements (SLAs) 
  • Champion best practice and support the adoption of new technology and tools
Process Improvement & Quality
  • Monitor productivity, quality, and team performance; investigate errors and addressing issues constructively 
  • Identify opportunities to improve workflows, processes, and ways of working, supporting implementation of changes
  • Maintain clear process documentation and encourage knowledge sharing across the team
Stakeholder Management 
  • Follow up all client concerns and queries effectively, representing issues on behalf of the account manager where needed. 
  • Build and maintain strong day-to-day relationship with the client
  • Support with service reviews, contributing to positive client outcomes and long-term partnerships

Skills

We're looking for someone who:
  • Has proven ability to lead, coach and develop a team in a high-standards, client-focused environment 
  • Has strong organisational and workload management skills, able to prioritise competing tasks while maintaining quality and accuracy
  • Has excellent communication skills, able to engage confidently and professionally with stakeholders at all levels
  • Demonstrates a proactive approach to identifying process improvements and contributing ideas to enhance workflows, team performance, and client outcomes 
  • Has high attention to detail and commitment to accuracy across all document production work
  • Has strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, including handling escalations effectively 
  • Has the ability to monitor team performance, provide constructive feedback, and support continuous learning
  • Is comfortable with adopting new technology and tools

Experience

Essential:
  • Minimum of 3+ years' experience in legal document production
  • Minimum of 2+ years' team management experience
  • Demonstrated experience producing, reviewing, and managing complex documents, including advanced word function (styles, templates, tracked changes, formatting)
  • Proficiency in MD Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and familiarity with legal/document tools such as PDFdocs, DocuSign, and digital dictation software
  • Experience meeting tight deadlines while maintaining high standards of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Proven track record of building constructive working relationships and collaborating effectively within a team
  • Flexible and adaptable, thriving in a fast-paced environment and able to balance operational oversight with hands-on support as required

Work Remotely

Yes

Schedule

Hours of Work: 16:00 – 00.00 GMT (from March to October 17:00 – 01:00 SAST, from October to March 18:00 – 02:00 SAST)

Job Type

Full-time, permanent

What's in it for you?

At SmartPA, we believe in rewarding talent and supporting your growth:
  • Competitive salaries
  • Full time, remote work
  • Flexitime initiative: work when you're most productive (core hours: 10:00-16:30 GMT)
  • 33 days holiday: because rest fuels greatness
  • Department incentives
  • Employee Assistant Programme 

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