Freshwater Recruitment
Transformation Manager
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Freshwater Recruitment is working with a Law firm to recruit a Transformation Manager to join a Legal Operations team on a 15-month fixed-term contract.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong project, transformation, or change background to join a collaborative team and play a key role in supporting a range of operational improvement and transformation initiatives.
The Role
You’ll work across multiple projects, helping to bring structure, visibility, and momentum to transformation activity. You’ll coordinate stakeholders, track delivery, and provide clear reporting to ensure projects remain aligned with priorities and deliver measurable value.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Coordinating multiple projects and maintaining project plans, action logs, risks, and issues
- Working with project owners and stakeholders to keep activity moving forward
- Supporting cross-functional transformation initiatives and facilitating effective collaboration
- Producing clear project updates, dashboards, and reporting
- Monitoring project metrics and highlighting risks, delays, and issues
- Supporting the development of project documentation and materials
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes and increase efficiency
- Supporting wider Legal Operations and Project Management initiatives
- Providing additional project and transformation support where required
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About You
We’re looking for someone who is organized, proactive, and confident working across multiple projects and stakeholder groups.
You’ll ideally have:
- An understanding of Legal Operations or Legal Project Management within a law firm
- Experience managing or supporting multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- The ability to analyse information and present it clearly
- A proactive and adaptable approach to changing priorities
- Experience working across different functions and levels of an organization
- Knowledge of project management approaches or tools such as Agile, PRINCE2, MS Project or JIRA
- Strong data, reporting, and presentation skills, including Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience supporting transformation or change initiatives
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This is a great opportunity to join an established organisation and gain exposure to a broad range of legal operations, transformation, and project initiatives. The role offers hybrid working, a competitive package, and the opportunity to work within a team that values development and collaboration. This is an initial 15-month fixed-term contract.
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