Strategic Programme Lead for Legal Services Transformation

OneAdvanced Limited; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Company pension with matched employer

Life assurance 4x salary

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

OneAdvanced is seeking a Portfolio Manager to lead the delivery of large-scale programmes within the Legal Services organisation. You will coordinate cross-functional projects and workstreams, ensuring business objectives are met through effective planning, governance, stakeholder management, and execution.

You will collaborate with Legal Services, Product, Engineering, Operations, and external stakeholders, guiding Project Managers and ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and aligned with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience managing large, complex programmes in a corporate or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated success delivering programmes comprising multiple projects and workstreams.
• Strong experience with project and programme governance frameworks.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across technology, operations, and business functions.
• Proven experience managing executive stakeholders and governance boards.
• Experience managing programme budgets, risks, and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex programmes consisting of multiple related projects and workstreams.
• Define programme scope, objectives, success criteria, and delivery roadmaps.
• Establish programme governance structures, reporting mechanisms, and delivery frameworks.
• Ensure alignment of programme activities with Legal Services and broader organisational strategic objectives.
• Drive accountability across project teams to achieve programme milestones and benefits realization.
• Manage and coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams, including IQ Legal implementation projects, business process transformation, system integrations, product/platform enhancements, and organisational change.
• Identify and manage interdependencies across projects and business functions.
• Proactively address programme-wide risks, issues, and constraints.
• Coordinate product release schedules across multiple projects and delivery teams.
• Work with Legal Services, Engineering, Product Management and operational stakeholders to ensure successful deployment and adoption of solutions.
• Oversee integration activities between IQ Legal platforms and other systems.
• Ensure readiness of business users through planning, testing, communication and enablement activities.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Legal Services, Technology, Operations, Product, and Business functions.
• Facilitate effective communication and decision-making across programme governance forums.
• Provide regular programme status updates, executive reporting, and escalation management.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure alignment throughout programme delivery.
• Provide guidance, support, and mentoring to Project Managers within the programme.
• Ensure consistency in project delivery methodologies, tools, standards and reporting.
• Champion best practices in programme and project management.
• Support resource planning, prioritisation, and workload balancing across projects.
• Develop and manage programme budgets and forecasts.
• Monitor programme financial performance and report on budget utilisation.
• Coordinate resource planning across projects and workstreams.
• Ensure efficient allocation of resources to meet programme objectives.
• Establish and maintain programme-level risk and issue management processes.
• Ensure compliance with organisational governance, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct programme reviews and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive quality assurance across all programme deliverables.

Skills

Leadership

Programme management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

OneAdvanced is seeking a Portfolio Manager to lead the delivery of large-scale programmes within the Legal Services organisation. You will coordinate cross-functional projects and workstreams, ensuring business objectives are met through effective planning, governance, stakeholder management, and execution.

You will collaborate with Legal Services, Product, Engineering, Operations, and external stakeholders, guiding Project Managers and ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and aligned with