Senior Business Change Leader

Senior Business Change Lead
Nottingham
£50,000 - £60,000 + benefits

Due to ongoing expansion and development, a position is available for a Senior Business Change Leader to join a growing Change Management function. This independent regional UK law firm is known for its highly effective solutions to clients’ complex needs within selected markets which include the largest public and private sector organisations, alongside SMEs and high net worth individuals.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Business Change Lead

• Ensuring all Business Change programmes, projects & initiatives are planned, resourced, managed, implemented, and reported against in accordance with the overall governance framework & quality criteria
• Identifying change adoption strategies and solutions throughout the firm, incorporating change methodologies
• Programme / Project Management of the implementation of approved business improvement initiatives
• Scoping out the approach and producing a plan to gain effective stakeholder / sponsor buy in and understanding prior to delivery
• Provision of updates on progress, issues, and proposed changes to the key stakeholders
• Production of clear and detailed business cases which capture the change objective
• Measuring and monitoring the success of Business Change projects and operational launch to ensure they are performing in line with the business case and the anticipated return on investment
• Working collaboratively with individuals, teams, departments, and key stakeholders across the firm
• Working collaboratively with project management and continuous improvement teams to ensure the business is aware of the initiatives being implemented
• Line management and development of the Business Change leads and training team members

Key Skills and Requirements of the Senior Business Change Lead

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience leading change projects, ideally within a legal or other professional services firm or working as a consultant
• Change management qualifications (essential) and, ideally, programme management qualifications
• Demonstrable experience of adopting a 'consulting’ and 'solution’ focused approach
• Experience of managing change delivery and adoption covering a broad remit of deliverables focussing on people, culture, technology and process change
• Experience of running programmes and projects which introduce organisational, and process change to business functions
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Good analytical skills and acute business acumen for organisational issues, challenges and building and executing strategic plans
• Excellent IT skills with good understanding and experience of using MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Visio
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations and apply pragmatism where needed

Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction.

Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Our divisions include: Legal Operations (Legal Tech and Legal Project Management, LPM, Operations Project Managers, Change, Innovation and Process Improvement); Accounting & Finance (Part and fully qualified Accountants); Pricing & Strategy; Pfi/PPP & FM.

Harcourt Matthews is committed to diversity and inclusion. We value and encourage applications from all ethnicities and welcome everyone regardless of social background, disability, gender identity, and orientation. Diversity benefits us all and challenges our assumptions.

Keywords: change management, manager, lead, leadership, mentor, program, project

Ref: BHJOB3543_5738