Business Change Manager - Legal - #2193541

Business Change Manager – Legal & Professional Services

West Midlands | Hybrid + UK Travel

We are recruiting an experienced Business Change Manager for a growing professional services organisation undergoing significant expansion through acquisitions.

Working within a developing Integration Project Management Office, you will play a pivotal role in aligning people, processes, cultures and operating models as new businesses join the organisation.

This is a broad, commercially focused change role spanning Operations, HR, Finance, Compliance and Technology. It requires someone who can think strategically, influence senior stakeholders and independently drive change from planning through to successful adoption.

The role will entail:

• Leading business change across acquisition integration and organisational transformation programmes.
• Assessing the impact of change on people, processes and operating models.
• Developing integration change strategies, stakeholder engagement and business readiness plans.
• Managing resistance and influencing senior professionals with established ways of working.
• Working alongside Project Managers and Business Analysts to implement and embed new processes.
• Identifying integration risks, measuring adoption and ensuring sustainable outcomes.

Applicants will have:

• Proven Business Change experience within legal or professional services.
• Experience of Mergers & Acquisitions and Integrations
• Strong organisational transformation and operating model change experience aross operational functions (not just technology)
• The ability to independently develop and deliver practical change strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management, commercial judgement and communication skills.
• Experience navigating complex organisational structures and competing priorities.
• A recognised change management qualification would be advantageous.

Katie Bard is acting as an agency and is an equal opportunities employer.