Change Manager

Role Overview

Based in our Bristol office, this role sits within Transformation and Operations where you will be working with stakeholders across the firm, including Directors and Partners to embed a culture of continuous improvement, change agility and user-centred transformation.

Working under the guidance of the Senior Change Manager, the Change Manager will deliver the firm’s change management capability, working with the Change Trainers and wider department to deliver successful people focussed change across technological, strategic and operational programmes and projects. The role will partner with the firm to ensure business readiness, adoption and sustained benefits realisation from change initiatives. The Change Manager will focus on ensuring that the firm’s change initiatives are understood, embraced and embedded effectively – minimising disruption and maximising the benefits of change.

Your Role

• Quickly build the necessary trust, credibility and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work in partnership with both the wider Transformation and Operations teams, and further stakeholders across the firm, to create then implement comprehensive change and training plans.
• Deliver cohesive impact assessments, skills set analysis, training, engagement and communication strategies with associated plans across multiple initiatives.
• Create user-friendly materials, guides and communications, tailored to audiences to maximise understanding and adoption, ensuring all materials, approaches and deliveries are aligned to the firm’s values, tone of voice and professional standards.
• Collaborate with project teams and business areas to mitigate resistance to change, providing support where required and adapting approach to ensure the most effective change delivery.
• Own the post go-live phase to ensure smooth transition of changes into BAU, including communications, and ensuring wider understanding of roles and responsibilities through continued collaboration.
• Adhere to the governance and frameworks, maintaining effective communication with stakeholders and escalating risks with appropriate mitigation solutions whenever encountered.
• Managing change readiness for the full project lifecycle, which, as required, will include being onsite at our UK offices during critical phases.
• Be a model for high quality change management across the firm, develop, lead and implement initiatives and plans in line with the firm’s Operational Change Playbook.

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in business change management and ensuring operational and training readiness.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.
• Experience in change management for multiple complex, cross organisational projects at one time.
• Experience of successfully engaging and managing stakeholders at all levels across an organisation, including those who are not early adopters.
• Demonstrable understanding and awareness of different organisational change and process improvement models and approaches.
• Strong influencing and dynamic interpersonal skills.
• Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and able to challenge the status quo confidently.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically and see the big picture.
• Excellent workload management and prioritisation skills.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. 

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role. 

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com