New Role: Project Manager

New role in from south west UK law firm Osborne Clarke for a Project Manager.

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About the job

Description

Osborne Clarke are looking for a Project Manager to deliver exciting projects across multiple parts of the law firm and business services functions. This role will involve delivering a number of strategic or operational projects, taking responsibility for managing inter-dependencies, budgets, resourcing and any risks. You will need an acute awareness of how stakeholder engagement and change management activities are fundamental to delivering business outcomes.

This is a permanent position that can be based out of our Bristol, Reading or London offices, with hybrid working and travel between our UK offices needed as and when required.

The Change Function at Osborne Clarke

Benefits

The Change Function at Osborne Clarke exists to drive strategic change across the firm, ensuring our Change programmes are aligned to our Strategic Goals. It consists of four teams who work together to deliver and embed effective change to drive realisable benefits for the Firm:

• Portfolio Management Office governs the Portfolio prioritisation, resource allocation, financial management and reporting.
• Business Analysis and Continuous Improvement Team supports the production of Business Cases or Continuous Improvement initiatives, with clearly defined benefits. They provide fact-based challenge of proposals to ensure the development of the correct solution aligns with business need and the strategy of the firm.
• Programme and Project Management Team is responsible for effective delivery of defined solutions to time, cost and quality. They ensure the effective governance, tracking of benefits and reporting throughout the delivery lifecycle to completion before closure of the project and handover into business as usual.
• The Change Management Team work throughout the life of a project to ensure the effective engagement of stakeholders, evaluation of the readiness of change recipients and the successful embedding of change initiatives across the firm to drive benefits realisation.
  

What You’ll Do

Main objectives of the role:

• To deliver projects and the associated business outcomes end to end ensuring that appropriate project methodologies are followed and adhered to
  

Key Responsibilities

• Defining (in collaboration with senior stakeholders) project scope, goals and deliverables that support the business in achieving their desired business outcomes
• Developing and managing integrated project plans, including the identification and management of inter-dependencies and the critical path
• Delivering progress reports, proposals and presentations to ensure that key governance forums and stakeholders are able to make effective decisions, in a timely manner and that critical risks and issues are escalated as appropriate
• Embedding a focus on benefits management and the delivery of associated business outcomes
• Proactively identifying and managing project risks
• Conducting project lessons learned and creating recommendations reports in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
• Collaborating with our business analysis team as they draft and submit business cases
• Running effective project team meetings to drive progress and collaboration
• Running effective project boards to ensure decision making is timely and well-informed
  

What We’re Looking For

You will be a Project Manager with a proven record of delivering positive, tangible outcomes. This experience will need to include all aspects of the project delivery lifecycle and a client-centric mindset, including:

• A focus on delivering tangible business outcomes, with a clear view for how change fits in to the broader business agenda
• Expertise in project management. A full and complete understanding of the project life cycle to facilitate the delivery of business benefits and outcomes
• An approach that recognises the criticality of change management and benefits management in successfully delivering sustainable business change
• Excellent written and verbal communication allied with proven client relationship and stakeholder management skills and the ability to adjust style and approach for different audiences
• Persuasive, encouraging and motivating with strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills
• Focussed on delivery on time and on budget
• The ability to work autonomously and to schedule own resource appropriately, whilst playing an active and constructive part in the team
• Behaving in an open and collaborative way that reflects Osborne Clarke’s core values and is considerate and respectful of colleagues and customers
• A good understanding of change management and business analysis, ensuring you have a robust understanding of what the end to end delivery lifecycle requires in order to deliver on business outcomes and the needs of the customer
  

Salary And Benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits

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