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We have an exciting opportunity to join progressive law firm Bevan Brittan at a time of major change. The UK legal industry is changing quickly, and we are looking for someone to work in our Client Solutions and Innovation department to accelerate the pace of change within Bevan Brittan and help us meet our strategic goals.
Attitude is key; we are looking for someone that is flexible and supportive, that has great organisational skills and has a positive and proactive approach to implementing change. We are looking for a candidate that can champion new ways of working in a supportive and collaborative manner. Someone who is a confident communicator with great interpersonal skills focused on working together with teams to find simple and practical solutions to get things done.
The role
- Leading major change projects that have a significant impact on the firm. Bringing together strong project management skills, with excellent communication skills and a great understanding of how to work collaboratively in organisations to deliver successful change.
- Supporting legal teams in reviewing and improving how they work to deliver even better services to our clients. Finding ways to help legal teams to develop and bring to market new products and services.
- Support the selection, adoption and implementation of AI tools to improve efficiency and productivity, working closely with different stakeholders across the firm
- Leading process mapping workshops, creating and maintaining task lists, following up on actions, identifying and addressing risks and issues and working with a broad range of stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Helping legal teams identify opportunities to work in more efficient and productive ways, including doing more digitally, to manage and deliver changes to how they work and support teams through the change process. Working across teams to facilitate smooth transition into new models of working.
- Managing procurements and supplier relationships.
- Supporting the Head of Change Delivery across a variety of firm wide projects.
What we are looking for from you
- Good background in project management and delivering large strategic business change. This role brings together project management, business analysis and organisational change.
- Knowledge of law firms or similar professional service firms and the delivery of legal services.
- Supplier management skills with experience of tendering and procurement processes, negotiation and contracting.
- A good broad understanding of technology and a genuine interest in how it can be used to deliver work more efficiently.
- Good attention to detail, good organisational skills, strong communication skills, training/qualification in project management an advantage e.g. APMP or Prince 2.
- Previous experience of business analysis an advantage, particularly process mapping, swim lane diagrams, ‘as is’ and ‘to be’, mapping e.g. IIBA or BCS qualifications in business analysis.
- Previous experience of continuous improvement and innovation change.
- Strong desire and ability to learn new ways of working and finding ways to encourage others to adopt new ways of working.
- Good written and analytical skills.
- Good ability and experience of writing reports, developing communication plans, writing to inform large audiences.
- Great people skills, confident in speaking to people at all levels of the business and able to facilitate group work. Ability to build and maintain trust and strong interpersonal relationships.
- Happy to work closely with others and on own initiative.
- Good IT literacy, good skills in all Microsoft products, knowledge and experience of Visio and AI tools are an advantage.
Make a Real Impact
Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Explore our markets and services here.
We are highly ranked across the legal directories and our 2024/25 financial results confirmed twelve years of consecutive growth.
Our Responsible Business pillars influence how we work together and motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and communities.
We support our people to be their best and, through our hybrid working model, we offer the flexibility to work your week in a way that suits you.
We’re looking for the best people to share in our ambition and success. Visit our Life page to discover what life at Bevan Brittan could look like for you.
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