Senior Transformation Project Leader - Hybrid

Foot Anstey; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & performance bonus

Enhanced parental leave

Private healthcare

Job summary

Foot Anstey seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale transformation initiatives across the firm, collaborating with senior stakeholders to turn strategy into action. You’ll drive complex business and technology change programs, delivering lasting value in a fast-paced legal environment.

You’ll partner with leadership to govern projects, manage budgets and dependencies, and champion adoption of new ways of working.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex projects and transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience managing project budgets, resources and third-party suppliers.
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk and delivery frameworks.
• Experience delivering measurable business outcomes and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale transformation projects from initiation through to delivery and benefits realisation.
• Manage scope, plans, budgets, resources, risks and dependencies.
• Ensure projects deliver agreed outcomes, value and strategic objectives.
• Maintain effective governance, reporting and delivery oversight.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, partners and stakeholders.
• Provide delivery leadership, challenge and strategic guidance.
• Facilitate decision-making and manage competing priorities.
• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve successful outcomes.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts and financial performance.
• Support business cases and investment decisions.
• Track benefits, value delivery and return on investment.
• Ensure effective use of project resources.
• Establish and maintain robust governance and reporting frameworks.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Ensure delivery aligns with agreed standards and controls.
• Escalate key risks and delivery concerns where appropriate.
• Support business readiness and successful implementation of change.
• Drive stakeholder engagement, communications and adoption activities.
• Work closely with Digital Adoption and business teams to embed change.
• Monitor adoption and benefits realisation.
• Contribute to portfolio planning, prioritisation and transformation roadmaps.
• Champion continuous improvement in project delivery practices.
• Share lessons learned and best practice across the Transformation Team.
• Support the ongoing development of the firm’s project management capability.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Governance & risk frameworks

Change management

Job description

Foot Anstey seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale transformation initiatives across the firm, collaborating with senior stakeholders to turn strategy into action. You’ll drive complex business and technology change programs, delivering lasting value in a fast-paced legal environment.

You’ll partner with leadership to govern projects, manage budgets and dependencies, and champion adoption of new ways of working.