Project Manager, Business Transformation (Associate Consultant) – Legal

Job Title: Project Manager, Business Transformation (Associate Consultant) – Legal
Location: London, hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Duration: Permanent or FTC
Start: May 2025
    
At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are ‘problem solvers’ who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early.    
    
Our mission is to create environments that thrive for our customers; we enable this by providing transformation, process optimisation, and automation services, all with the aim of enabling our customers to harness human autonomy. 
 
We are reimagining how transformation services are delivered, taking a human-centred approach, and our work is having a material impact on people’s lives. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you.
 
The role:
 As a Project Manager, you will lead on the delivery of several transformation initiatives within a Major Global Law Firm. You will be working with the client’s Global Head of Practice Operations to deliver strategic change projects across the firm. These projects will see you working across all business functions and with senior stakeholders, including C-suite executives.
 
Key responsibilities:
 

• Project Management: Lead project management activities, organise and oversee projects to ensure they meet deadlines and budget requirements, playing an important role in helping to ensure that project milestones are met.
• Client interaction: manage key stakeholder relationships, understand their needs, gather information and provide updates on project progress and timelines. You’ll be an ambassador of Pace, taking a values-driven approach to the delivery of consulting services.
• Risk management: Manage project risks and issues appropriately, reporting to project sponsors where required.
• Business and Data Analysis: Analyse and interpret data and convert raw information into actionable insights to help drive strategic decision-making process.
• Reporting: Prepare detailed reports outlining findings and recommendations and present to senior leadership teams. Maintain and update project documentation, including project plans, timelines, budgets and RAID logs.
• Collaboration:  Collaborate closely with other team members to maintain a consistent and effective approach to client projects, enhancing the quality of the solutions proposed.

Who you are
We are looking for exceptional skills in the following areas:

• Project Management: Proven experience of project management, having owned the delivery of small to medium-sized projects within a transformation environment. Ideally you will have a minimum of two years’ experience operating as a Project Manager / Coordinator.
• Business Skills: You have a good understanding of business and IT operations, commercial awareness, and the communication skills required to operate in a client-facing capacity.
• Influence: Proven communication and negotiation skills to align team members and stakeholders with project objectives. You are skilled at adapting your communication style as required to communicate with people at all levels within an organisation.
• Autonomy: Capability to work independently with minimal supervision, taking initiative to drive project success, ensuring timely delivery of tasks.
• Dealing with Complexity: Skilled in prioritizing and managing multiple tasks or projects simultaneously in a dynamic environment.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience in building relationships and maintaining regular communication with stakeholders to ensure alignment and satisfaction.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to analyse challenges, propose solutions, and adapt plans as needed to keep projects on track.

 
What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to join a high-growth, scale-up consulting firm; we see an opportunity to make a material difference to how clients are served, and are on a mission to create environments that thrive for our clients.   
• A dedicated focus on your individual personal development: managed through annual performance appraisals, individual personal development plans, and our bi-weekly ‘continuous conversations’ programme.   
• Additional professional development is available through a personal training budget (subject to approval of a relevant business case)   

 
A competitive salary plus additional benefits including:  

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus an additional days’ leave for your birthday  
• Annual leave purchase: buy up to 10 additional days of leave per annum  
• Reservist leave: up to 10 days of paid leave to fulfil reservist commitments  
• Private health insurance*  
• AVIVA workplace pension scheme  
• AIG life assurance*  
• Save 30-60% on an electric car through The Electric Car Scheme  

 
*applicable to permanent hires only.    
 
Your Pace team:
    
Harnessing Human Autonomy is putting the needs of humans above all in process and system design.  
 
We are a consultancy that helps organisations become aware of the human needs and behaviours within their operations, so that systems and processes can be designed and implemented to match. We automate the basics and empower the human to achieve more in the beckoning age of AI and automation. The results are a more engaged, agile and motivated workforce capable of greater efficiency and innovation. 
 
Imagine If… you worked for a business that has integrity at its core, one that truly cares about its People, Corporate Social Responsibility and delivering real value to its customers.      
    
At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people.  Apply today to find out about the great things we’re achieving together and the fun we have as a team.    

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