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About the Role
This role involves leading complex, high-impact projects within the Transformation department, shaping the firm's operations, client service, and adoption of emerging technologies like AI. The Senior Project Manager will drive initiatives from concept to implementation, establishing an enterprise-wide approach to project delivery and influencing the firm's future direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of complex, strategically significant transformation and operational change initiatives.
- Partner with sponsors and senior stakeholders to shape delivery approaches, implementation strategies and business outcomes.
- Establish and maintain project plans, budgets, governance structures and reporting mechanisms.
- Manage complex risks, issues, dependencies and organisational impacts across multiple workstreams.
- Lead project boards, steering committees and executive governance forums.
- Ensure projects deliver measurable business value and remain aligned to strategic objectives.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across business, technology and external suppliers.
- Drive stakeholder engagement, change adoption and business readiness activities.
- Mentor and support Project Managers, sharing expertise and promoting delivery excellence.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of project management standards, governance and ways of working across the Transformation function.
- Support portfolio planning and prioritisation activities alongside the PMO and senior leadership.
Requirements
- A strong track record of successfully delivering complex business, technology or transformation projects and programmes.
- Experience working with senior executives, sponsors and cross-functional leadership teams.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
- Strong commercial awareness, including experience managing budgets, forecasts and business cases.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and navigate ambiguity, complexity and competing priorities.
- Experience driving organisational change and supporting business adoption.
- A proactive, collaborative and delivery-focused mindset.
- A passion for continuous improvement and helping to build high-performing delivery teams.
Skills
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communication
- Influencing
- Commercial Awareness
- Budget Management
- Team Leadership
- Change Management
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Dependency Management
- AI
Location
- Bristol
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Level 4
Education Level
- Professional project management qualification (APM, PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent) is desirable.
Benefits
- Bonuses dependant on role/level
- Private medical insurance
- Pension contribution
- Global skills academy with excellent learning opportunities
- Range of social and sports committees
- Summer and winter parties
- Monthly get togethers
- Range of diversity networks
- Support for the art community
About the Company
- Simmons & Simmons is a firm with a collaborative, open, and non-hierarchical culture where wellbeing is paramount.
- They partner with leading organisations on inspirational projects.
- They foster an environment where everyone's voice is heard and encourage an enquiring mind.
- They offer innovative learning and development opportunities.
- They are a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, a Stonewall Top Global Employer, and a Top 75 Employer for Social Mobility.
- They have a history of supporting the art community.
- They have introduced a Strategic Advisory Council to propose strategic initiatives.
- Their in-house generative AI tool, Percy, won an award for 'Innovation in Automation and AI Tools'.
- They have been commended in The Times Best Law Firms 2026 across construction, employment, and intellectual property.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to fostering equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Ensures equal employment opportunities.
- Upholds equal opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity, marital status, or pregnancy, including maternity and paternity.
- Addresses instances of perceived or associative discrimination and harassment.
- Ensures fair treatment for those serving or who have served in the armed forces, along with their families.
- Accommodates requests for flexible working arrangements.
- Makes roles accessible to individuals with diverse abilities and offers reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.
- Encourages applications even if not all requirements are met.
- Reserves the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.