Project Manager

Job Introduction

The BIC team ensures that projects run within DACB are managed and executed with efficiency and expertise.

The scope of the projects can range from business improvement projects seeking to change processes and behaviours through to IT infrastructure projects.

We are seeking a project manager to join the Operations team within BIC to deliver projects for the business.

Role Responsibility

• Be accountable for managing projects proactively to ensure that they are delivered to agreed time, budget and quality.
• Apply appropriate methodologies and governance to control project progress, risk costs and quality.
• Support, guide and train junior members of the Project Delivery team to help build their project knowledge and experience.
• Ensure that senior stakeholders are engaged in projects; that key milestone progress updates are regularly provided; and that all aspects of projects follow the governance structure. 
• Facilitate and run project board meetings.
• Act as a liaison between the business and technical project team members, offering hands-on project direction, guidance and assistance
• Create and maintain project plans, being accountable for communicating and updating these plans as projects progress
• Monitor project performance against key parameters - including budget and timescales - throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Ensure that issues and risks are flagged and addressed in a timely manner to avoid overruns
• Prepare and obtain approval for all key project documentation
• Organise and attend regular project update meetings, ensuring that action points are recorded and completed
• Facilitate the involvement of required resources from other practice areas as required, liaising and communicating effectively with relevant teams across DAC Beachcroft business areas
• Conduct post-completion analysis of project delivery, capturing and communicating any lessons learnt
• Work with and support the Governance and Consultancy teams within BIC, in line with the department’s strategic objectives
• Travel, where essential (and subject to Covid-19 travel guidance), to other DAC Beachcroft offices to facilitate project progress
• Handle confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.

The Ideal Candidate

• Have extensive experience in implementing and concluding projects / tasks in a commercial environment, preferably in the legal / professional services sector.
• Have proven experience of working with project management methodologies and of working on a number of projects simultaneously
• Be outcome-focused, taking a pragmatic, cost effective approach to dealing with issues
• Have outstanding organisational abilities, maintaining a balance between the bigger picture and the detail
• Have good stakeholder management skills , specifically relating to professional services and non technical stakeholders, with a clear, persuasive communication style and a high level of personal credibility.  Have strong listening skills and the ability to build effective, reciprocal relationships at all levels
• Have experience of taking responsibility for driving projects forward, owning the outcome and showing resilience in the face of resistance and setbacks.  Be able to demonstrate clear judgment and apply common sense
• Be self-motivated and able to work to a high standard under own initiative
• Have the ability to understand technical complexities and issues and to provide clear direction.
• Have experience of reporting to and working closely with senior business stakeholders and project sponsors
• Have a ’can do’ attitude, being outcome focused ensuring that the project delivers to our customers.
• Have the ability to thrive in a changing environment.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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