Business Change Manager

Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we’re part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2023/24 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an eleventh consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

Looking to the future, we’re targeting ambitious growth and success. And we’re looking for the best people to be part of it.

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers

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 Transformation Team 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.

• 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 Director of Transformation and Operations across a variety of firm wide projects., When we ask colleagues what makes Bevan Brittan a great place to work, the most popular thing they say is "the people". The overwhelming consensus is that we make time for each other. We welcome questions and support each other. Naturally, we look for new colleagues who align with our values.

Supported to be your best

Hybrid working

We operate a hybrid working model based on the needs of our clients, teams and people. Our core business hours are 9am – 5:15pm Monday to Friday, but we’re open to our people working more flexibly around those times and welcome a conversation with you if you have any questions about this. We try to offer you the flexibility to work your week in a way that suits you.

Learning, Development & Progression

We’re committed to supporting your professional and personal development needs.This means that we offer a range of tailored training courses and you will have lots of opportunity to learn from those around you. We actively encourage progression and this is reflected in our annual review and promotion processes. You will be supported by your line manager to achieve your full potential.

Wellbeing

As a Bevan Brittan employee, you’ll have access to a variety of services that support your wellbeing. We’ve pledged our commitment to The Mindful Business Charter and lots of our people contribute to our Wellbeing Responsible Business strand, which organises an annual calendar of wellbeing events and initiatives.

• 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 an advantage.

• A minimum of 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy up to an additional 5 days)

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Generous pension scheme

• Private medical insurance through Vitality

• Biennial private health assessment through Nuffield Health

• Life assurance

• Access to Employee Assistance Programme

• Cycle to work scheme

Embracing our differences and valuing inclusion

Our shared aim is that everyone is welcome and can feel comfortable being themselves at Bevan Brittan. To support this, we actively value and promote equality, diversity and inclusion in everything that we do. You’ll be empowered and supported through our employee led networks, diverse colleagues, and a broad range of firmwide initiatives.

Recognising the unique contributions that a diverse workforce can bring to our business, we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or have any questions, please get in touch with our recruitment team by emailing

Acting responsibly, now and for the future

To us, being a responsible business is second nature; a core part of Bevan Brittan’s identity. Our colleagues are heavily involved in shaping and delivering activity across the four pillars of our : Community Engagement; Environmental Sustainability; Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; and Wellbeing.

Our people deliver pro bono legal work for charities and not-for-profit organisations. We play an active role in our local communities and donated £100,000 across our four regional office charities last year. We are also proudly carbon neutral. We’ve achieved the UN’s Climate Neutral Now accreditation and our environmental sustainability plan focuses on achieving our net zero carbon target by 2040.

Collectively, the four pillars ensure we look after our colleagues’ wellbeing; offer an environment in which everyone can progress on merit, give something back to the communities in which we work; and protect the environment.

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