Senior Project Manager

4 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Osborne Clarke Full time
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 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

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