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Osborne Clarke are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our International Change & Transformation function within our Business Services Group, based from either our London or Bristol offices.
This position will play a pivotal role in managing and successfully delivering a number of complex, strategic projects across the international business, ensuring alignment with Osborne Clarke’s strategic goals and the delivery of tangible, embedded business outcomes.
This is a full-time, permanent position offering hybrid working, with travel expected as required within the UK and internationally.
The role
The Senior Project Manager will be a key member of the Change & Transformation team, working closely with the International Director of Operations & BD, the Head of Portfolio & Delivery, and other senior stakeholders across the network. You will lead critical, high-profile projects from initiation through to benefits realisation, with a particular focus on stakeholder engagement, change management and the embedding of sustainable business outcomes.
You will also provide matrix management and mentoring to project managers as required, promoting a culture of collaboration, transparency and continuous improvement across the project portfolio.
Other Key Responsibilities Include
Project Delivery
- Directing and managing complex, strategic projects from beginning to end, with a specific focus on delivering and embedding agreed business benefits and outcomes.
- Defining, in collaboration with senior stakeholders, project scope, goals and deliverables that support the firm in achieving its strategic objectives.
- Liaising with business analysts and sponsors on the creation and refinement of business cases.
- Ensuring successful delivery of projects to agreed timelines and budget, and continually validating the achievability of planned benefits.
- Developing and managing full-scale, integrated project plans, including the identification and management of inter-dependencies and the critical path.
- Coaching, motivating and supervising project delivery teams (including third parties), influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
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Collaboration
- Working closely with the UK Change & Transformation team to ensure seamless communication, full transparency of OCI projects, and alignment within the wider network programme and project portfolio.
- Building strong relationships with a wide group of international stakeholders, including national business COOs, Business Analysis Leads, PMO, and key business sponsors, ensuring cultural differences are understood and respected.
Reporting and Governance
- Delivering clear, concise progress reports, proposals and presentations to key governance forums and stakeholders, including the International Board, International Council and project sub-committees.
- Providing the visibility and insight needed for effective decision-making, ensuring that critical risks, issues and inter-dependencies are communicated and escalated appropriately.
- Working with UK Change & Transformation to update and maintain the network-wide project roadmap to reflect any changes in OCI project scope or priorities.
Change, Benefits And Risk Management
- Embedding a strong focus on benefits management and the delivery of associated business outcomes throughout the project lifecycle.
- Recognising and championing the critical role of change management, ensuring that people, process and technology impacts are clearly understood and effectively managed.
- Proactively identifying, assessing and managing project risks and issues, and ensuring mitigation strategies are in place and monitored.
- Supporting the promotion of a culture of mutual understanding and effective communication across the Osborne Clarke business as a whole.
We are looking for
- An experienced Senior Project Manager with a proven record of delivering positive, tangible outcomes for complex, strategic projects.
- Extensive experience of working in a legal environment, with a strong understanding of the complexities of law firm business and legal operations structures.
- A high level of technical expertise in project management, with a full and complete understanding of the project lifecycle and how to use project methodologies to deliver tangible business benefits.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven client relationship and stakeholder management experience, including regular engagement with C-suite and senior leadership.
- The ability to build strong relationships with a wide group of international stakeholders, adapting style and approach to different audiences and cultural contexts.
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Salary And Benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.
About Us
Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.
At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.
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