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Job Title
Project Manager
Closing Date
02-May-2024
Department
Projects
Job Location
Bristol; London; Reading
Role
Business Services
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
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
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.
At Osborne Clarkewe 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 an inclusive 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 anyadjustments 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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