Senior Change Manager

TLT LLP; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Bristol is seeking a Senior Change Manager to enhance the firm's change management capability. This role involves working collaboratively with stakeholders to implement successful operational changes and developing high-performing teams. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in leading complex change programmes, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively. A competitive salary and benefits are offered, along with a supportive hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday, increasing to 30

Private medical insurance

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading complex change programmes successfully.
• Strong ability in managing and developing teams.
• Experience in managing change readiness for multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Quickly build trust and relationships with stakeholders.
• Set clear performance expectations and create a high-performing culture.
• Develop impact assessments, training, and engagement strategies.
• Design and deliver training to support successful change adoption.
• Oversee the full change lifecycle at UK offices.

Skills

Leading complex change programmes

Team management and development

Business change management

Strong interpersonal skills

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Change readiness management

Organizational change models

Creative and strategic thinking

Workload management

Job description

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Role Overview: Based in our Bristol office, this is a key position within Transformation and Operations where you will be working with stakeholders across the firm, including Directors and Partners to embed a culture of continuous improvement, change agility and user-centred transformation.
The Senior Change Manager will drive the maturity of the firm’s change management capability, overseeing the Change Managers and Change Trainers to deliver successful people focussed change across technological, strategic and operational programmes and projects. The role will provide strategic direction, coaching and hands on support to ensure robust standards and consistent business readiness, adoption and sustained benefits realisation from change initiatives. The Senior Change Manager will play a key role in shaping the future of operational change within the firm, with autonomy to influence how we deliver and build a high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Quickly build the necessary trust, credibility and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Set clear performance expectations for a team of Change Managers and Change Trainers, creating a high-performing, collaborative culture.
• Act as a point of escalation for the team for complex risks, issues and dependencies across the team’s projects, identifying solutions before sharing with the Senior Portfolio Manager and PMO Manager.
• Work in partnership with the Senior Portfolio Manager to share and drive the change management strategy and approach, aligned to the firm’s strategy and transformation roadmap.
• Develop cohesive impact assessments, skills set analysis, training, engagement and communication strategies with associated plans across multiple initiatives.
• Collaborate with both the wider Transformation and Operations teams, and further stakeholders across the firm, to ensure alignment and consideration of the team’s activities within project plans.
• Design and deliver training and capability building interventions to support successful adoption of change through considered channels and tailored approaches.
• Own the post Go Live process, establishing a clear framework that sets out roles and responsibilities.
• Adhere to the governance and frameworks, maintaining effective communication with stakeholders and escalating risks with appropriate mitigation solutions whenever encountered.
• Overseeing change for the full change lifecycle, which, as required, will include being onsite at our UK offices during critical phases.
• Implementation of tools and techniques to encourage, reinforce and measure desired behaviours.
• Through the team of Change Trainers, deliver the firm’s induction to new joiners.
• Be a model for high quality change management across the firm, develop, lead and implement initiatives and plans in line with the firm’s Operational Change Playbook.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in leading complex change programmes successfully in a senior change management role both personally and via your team.
• Strong ability in managing and developing teams to become high performers.
• Strong experience in business change management and ensuring operational and training readiness.
• Strong influencing and dynamic interpersonal skills. Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and able to challenge the status quo confidently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely.
• Experience in managing change readiness for multiple complex, cross organisational projects at one time.
• Experience of successfully engaging and managing stakeholders at all levels across an organisation, including those who are not early adopters.
• Demonstrable understanding and awareness of different organisational change and process improvement models and approaches.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically and see the big picture.
• Excellent workload management and prioritisation skills.

Your Team

As a forward-thinking law firm, change is a fundamental part of our TLT world. We have a dedicated team of project managers, business analysts, change managers and trainers to help us adapt and evolve in a seamless and effective way. This approach identifies efficiencies and commercial benefits for TLT while ensuring compliance with client and regulatory requirements. Providing end-to-end support on all major and complex projects, the team deliver remediation, client requests, operational changes, transformation and innovation projects and programmes.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.