Project Manager - Manchester Centre
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Project Manager
Manchester
32000 - 50000 per annum
As the Project Manager, you will work within a fast-growing Change function for one of the UKs top 20 Legal Firms. You will have full responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of a large Business change portfolio, that will centre around; Process and Operational driven change initiatives.
The Role
The purpose of this role is to work with the PI business in identifying, shaping and leading business improvement projects aligned to both operational strategy and future operating model. The successful candidate will work with a team of Business Analysts in ensuring sustainable and measurable solutions are generated.
Main Duties:
* Project Delivery - define approach for project appropriate to size/scale, collaborative creation of appropriate plans, assurance of delivery to cost/time/quality criteria;
* Project team leadership - matrix management of internal delivery teams / 3rd parties / SMEs, chairing regular project updates, maintaining key relationships with IT, HR, Finance, Sales and Marketing;
* Governance - creation and maintenance of key project artefacts, ensuring decision-making and escalation paths are clear defined and followed;
* Sponsor / Stakeholder engagement - maintaining clear progress updates to sponsor and key stakeholders, ensuring scope is maintained whilst being pragmatic in adapting to unique requirements of legal environment;
* Risk - ensuring all project risk is captured and mitigation plans in place;
The successful candidate will ideally:
* be graduate calibre with appropriate professional qualifications in change management, project management or process improvement;
* have demonstrable experience in a similar role;
* have knowledge of working in a professional services industry;
* be able to show working knowledge of multiple analysis techniques.