Project Manager

Role Profile

Osborne Clarke are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our growing Change & Transformation department in either our London or Bristol offices. This position will play a crucial role in managing and successfully delivering a portfolio of smaller strategic or operational projects across the firm, ensuring alignment with business initiatives and contributing to the transformation of our target operating model. This is a permanent position offering hybrid working.

Project Delivery

• Defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with senior stakeholders to support the business in achieving their desired outcomes.
• Developing and managing integrated project plans, including the identification and management of inter-dependencies and the critical path.

Collaboration

• Working closely with business analysts to ensure requirements analysis, process mapping, and other tasks are planned and carried out effectively.
• Collaborating with key partners such as Procurement, ITS, and external vendors to ensure quality project delivery.

Reporting and Governance

• Delivering progress reports, proposals, and presentations to ensure key governance forums and stakeholders can make effective decisions in a timely manner, with critical risks and issues escalated as appropriate.

Change Management

• Collaborating with change managers to ensure change management activities are planned and carried out effectively, or directly carrying out change management activities following our centre of excellence approach.

Benefits Management

• Focusing on benefits management and the delivery of associated business outcomes.
• Conducting project lessons learned and feeding these into our central processes.

Risk Management

• Proactively identifying and managing project risks and issues.

Qualifications

• Proven record of delivering positive, tangible outcomes for small-scale, operational projects.
• Technical expertise in project management with a full understanding of the project life cycle.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the critical role that a change & transformation department plays within an organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven client relationship and stakeholder management abilities.
• Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and schedule own resources appropriately, while 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.
• Good understanding of change management and business analysis to ensure robust end-to-end delivery lifecycle.

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.

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