Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
As a Project Manager at Addleshaw Goddard, you will play a key role in planning, leading, supporting, and enabling business change. You will motivate project teams to deliver the change we need, ensuring successful outcomes from early inception to embedding into the business.
THE TEAM
• The newly appointed Project Manager will become a member of the wider Project Management Office (PMO), which operates within the IT department located in Leeds.
• Working collaboratively, the team drives change to support strategic driven and wider business objectives.
• The PMO employs a dynamic project delivery process that incorporates methods Project Managers can adapt to various types of projects and deliver them more dynamically while maintaining high quality and standards.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROLE
Describe in brief:
• Lead, manage, and drive projects involving diverse changes, complexities, and cross-functional departments.
• Influence and build engagement in change to put in place the right people, processes, and tools.
• Work closely with the team to understand and define changes and formulate an approach that aligns with the scale and complexity of the change.
YOUR AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE
To be successful in this role, what are the:
• Proven experience in project management, preferably within a legal or professional services environment.
• Demonstrates confident stakeholder management, leadership and project team management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver results within deadlines.
• Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies.
OUR FIRM
Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.
We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.
Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.
OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE
Everything we’ve accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in.
Here, you’ll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.
Are you up for the challenge?
