Senior Project Manager - Technology & Business Change

Womble Bond Dickinson; United States; À distance; USD 87 000 - 134 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Womble Bond Dickinson is seeking a Senior Project Delivery Lead within the Project Management Unit to oversee end-to-end delivery of strategic change initiatives across the business. The role requires guiding projects from initiation through closure, ensuring governance, governance, and delivery against time, cost, and quality targets.

You will work with Partners and senior stakeholders in a professional services environment, coordinating multiple teams and suppliers, establishing robust

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years' experience delivering complex projects across technology and/or business change.
• Experience in a legal or professional services or similarly complex, stakeholder-led environment.
• Experience operating within PMO/PMU governance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to influence at senior level.
• Experience delivering multi-stream projects involving business, IT and third-party suppliers.
• Technically credible, able to engage delivery teams without deep technical specialization.
• Proven ability to manage risk, dependencies and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsabilités

• Own end-to-end delivery from initiation through to closure.
• Ensure governance, risk management, and delivery to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Engage senior stakeholders and manage delivery across multiple teams and suppliers.
• Collaborate with Senior Project Managers to embed best practice in delivery and governance.
• Establish control and structure quickly and manage competing priorities from day one.

Connaissances

Stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

Governance frameworks

Multi-stream delivery

Risk management

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Description du poste

and excellent support to all of our employees, and clients.

Role Purpose

The role sits within the firm's Project Management Unit (PMU) and is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of high-impact change initiatives across the business. While many programmes are technology-enabled, the role is not limited to IT delivery and will operate across both technology-led and broader business change initiatives. The successful candidate will take ownership of project delivery from initiation through to closure, ensuring appropriate governance, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and delivery to agreed time, cost and quality objectives. The role requires the ability to operate effectively within a professional services environment, engaging senior stakeholders, including Partners, and managing delivery across multiple teams and suppliers. An important aspect of the role will be working collaboratively with other Senior Project Managers to develop, agree, and embed best practice approaches to delivery, governance, and continuous improvement across the PMU. The individual will be expected to establish control and structure quickly, manage competing priorities, and ensure delivery remains aligned to agreed business outcomes.

What we are looking for?

• 5-8+ years' experience delivering complex projects across technology and/or business change (e.g. core systems, platforms, integrations, security or infrastructure)
• Demonstrable experience operating in a legal or professional services or similarly complex, stakeholder-led environment
• Experience working within structured governance environments (e.g. PMO / PMU frameworks)
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence at senior level
• Experience delivering multi-stream projects involving business, IT and third-party suppliers
• Technically credible, with the ability to engage delivery teams and challenge appropriately, without needing to be a deep technical specialist
• Proven ability to manage risk, dependencies, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• High level of ownership, accountability, and delivery focus

In addition to your technical skills, we are looking for a candidate who has the right attitude, mindset and is driven, hungry to learn and able to excel in their area of expertise and is eager to contribute with a desire to be successful.

This is a senior delivery role requiring an individual who can operate with minimal onboarding and take ownership of complex initiatives from day one.

Occasional travel to other office locations may be required (but very rarely).

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits! As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working. Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here.

We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page.

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We are an in-house recruitment team and will always aim to fill our roles directly in the first instance.

Location & Contract

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Plymouth Contract Type: Permanent