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Director, Risk Advisory, eDiscovery page is loaded## Director, Risk Advisory, eDiscoverylocations: UK Londontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 2 Days Agojob requisition id: R104335Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.This position supports the Ankura Risk Advisory business group- one of six practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm**Practice Overview:**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 London 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.**Requirements:*** Minimum of a bachelor’s degree. Preferred degree in engineering, computer science, finance, accounting, economics, information technology, forensics, data analytics, or work experience in a related field.* Demonstrable work experience within an eDiscovery team, ideally gained in Big 4 or a mid-tier consulting firm.* Possess strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills.* Familiar with the EDRM and experience in using eDiscovery products / tools:* eDiscovery Review/Processing Platforms: Relativity, Brainspace, Disco, Ringtail, Catalyst, Zylab, Everlaw, CasePoint, Nuix, Law, Eclipse, or comparable.* Forensic Software: EnCase, Cellebrite, Oxygen, BlackBag, FTK.* Database/Programming: Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Python, R.* Email Systems: Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, eVault, email archive platforms.* System administration experience in Microsoft, Linux/Unix, or MacintoshCore consulting skills* Hold strong team-oriented personality characteristics: hard-working, thoughtful, and collaborative, with a positive outlook and confidence.* Experience of managing individuals or small teams with strong people skills.* Highly motivated, eager to learn and able to motivate others.* Ability to utilise technology to solve complex problems.* Ability to demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal) and organisational skills.* Ability to adapt quickly in handling multiple/evolving tasks as a result of new engagements and/or re-prioritised deadlines.* Ability to produce high quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines.* Willing to travel nationally and internationally, which could involve a few weeks at a time as engagement duration can range from a week to months.Ankura is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. 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Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues unrelated to a disability, will not receive a response.Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 2000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Deliversᵀᴹ, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Valueᵀᴹ. For more information, please visit, .