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Job Title
Senior Project Manager
Closing Date
02-May-2024
Department
Projects
Job Location
Bristol; London; Reading
Role
Business Services
Description
We have an exciting opportunity
for someone to join Osborne Clarke as a Senior Project Manager. This
role will involve managing and delivering a number of strategic
projects which will help to drive change within the business. As a
Senior Project Manager, you will also coach and mentor Project
Managers to deliver successful projects across an array of areas,
whilst engaging stakeholders and taking responsibility for the
successful delivery of projects.
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
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:
Direct and manage critical,
complex projects from beginning to end with a specific focus on
delivering and embedding the associated business benefits and
outcomes (as aligned to OC's strategic goals). This will include
working on projects with a high level of ambiguity, matrix
management of teams, and working effectively with senior
stakeholders across our international business.
Embedding a focus on benefits
management and the delivery associated business outcomes
Key responsibilities:
Defining (in collaboration with
senior stakeholders) project scope, goals and deliverables that
support the business in achieving their desired business outcomes
Ensuring successful delivery of
projects to agreed timelines and budget and ensuring on-going
achievability of planned benefits
Collaborating with our business
analysis team as they draft and submit business cases, taking into
consideration the holistic people, process and technology change
required to deliver on the desired strategic goals & business outcomes
Developing budget proposals and
subsequent budget changes where necessary, determining the
appropriate type of spend (i.e. CapEx, Revenue and OpEx)
Developing and managing
full-scale, 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
Coaching, motivating and
supervising project delivery teams (including third parties),
influencing them to take positive action and accountability for
their assigned work
Running effective project boards
to ensure decision making is timely and well-informed
Conducting project lessons
learned and creating recommendations reports in order to identify
successful and unsuccessful project elements
What we're looking for
You will be an experienced Senior
Project Manager with a proven record delivering positive, tangible
outcomes for complex projects. This experience will need to include
all aspects of the project delivery lifecycle and regular c-suite
level engagement including:
A focus on delivering tangible
business outcomes, with a clear view for how change fits in to the
broader business agenda
A high level of technical
expertise in project management. A full and complete understanding
of the project life cycle to facilitate the delivery of business
benefits & outcomes. This will include an acute understanding
that successfully managing change requires an effective use of
project methodologies to deliver outputs
An approach that recognises the
criticality of change management and benefits management
(alongside project 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 ability to build credibility quickly and
collaborate effectively
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
For more information or to apply
We would very much welcome your
application using the link provided. Should you have any questions
about the role, or would like to find out more about the firm,
please contact Patrick Fermin Ryan at patrick.ferminryan@osborneclarke.com.
AtOsborne Clarke we
value difference and encourage applicants from all social
backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and
sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is
a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our
range of interest groups and diversity networks -
not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.
Being aninclusive employer is
important to us and we are committed to ensuring every applicant's
recruitment experience is free from unnecessary barriers. We have
made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness
Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with
organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer. We
want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment
process. If you require any adjustments to be made
during the application, interview process or when working with us,
please let us know.
If you have a dis/ability+, to
include physical disability, hidden disability, long-term health
condition or neurodivergence and meet the requirements listed in
this job advert, we would be delighted to offer you a guaranteed
interview. We want you to be able to show us your best during the
recruitment process.
We support working families via a
range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate
flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of
our people: for example, we're signatories to the Mindful Business
Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer
free initiatives and flexible
benefits to all our people.
Although we include closing dates
for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a
rolling basis.
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