Change Manager

at  Osborne Clarke

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 WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for people who have the core competences needed in such a role:

• Inspirational communication, a great listener with excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Outstanding organisational, project planning, teamworking and time management abilities
• A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal

Depending on your experience level you will be able to demonstrate all or most of the below:

• Awareness or previous experience of how to use change methodologies to shape and deliver change management activities for transformation programmes
• Experience supporting and co-ordinating communication and training efforts that are central to the change management strategy (including the ability to provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of communication and training interventions)
• Understanding of how change fits into the end to end project delivery lifecycle as well as the broader business agenda
• Existing Change Management qualifications (e.g. PROSCI)

Are you concerned you don’t meet every requirement? At Osborne Clarke we are proud of the culture we are creating to ensure we have a diverse mix of employees working within an inclusive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or another role we have available.

ABOUT US

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it’s fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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ROLE PROFILE

Osborne Clarke are seeking Change Managers to join the Change Function of our award-winning, international law firm. This role will involve designing and delivering change management activities required to successfully embed transformational change across a range of key and strategic programmes for the firm. You will support the Head of Change and/or other Senior Change Managers in the team.
This is a permanent position that will be based out of our Bristol office, with hybrid working and travel between our UK offices as needed and when required. This is a full-time position, but we are more than happy to discuss the role with anyone looking to work on a part-time or on a flexible basis.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As part of the Change Management Team, you will be accountable for and support the design, development and implementation of change management activities required to successfully embed people, process and technology change for a range of strategic programmes and projects.

Activities will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Completing and utilising change impact assessments to develop change management strategies that drive the faster adoption of changes to increase benefit realisation
• Stakeholder engagement and communication planning
• Defining and tracking metrics and feedback to demonstrate a successful transition of behaviours and processes to the future state
• Working with the Project/Programme Managers and BAs (as appropriate) – to input into benefits realisation plans and ensure that change management activities support and deliver the realisation of the business outcomes associated with the project.

We are looking for people who have the core competences needed in such a role:

• Inspirational communication, a great listener with excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Outstanding organisational, project planning, teamworking and time management abilities
• A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goa