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Senior Manager Change Management

Location: 

London, GB

Department or practice area:  Change

The opportunity for you

 

As Senior Change Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in building and embedding a Change Management function that underpins the firm’s strategic ambitions. Leading a team of Change Managers and working closely with senior leaders, you’ll help deliver change that sticks. With a sharp focus on transatlantic firm integration and the behavioural adoption of AI across the business, this is a unique opportunity to drive meaningful, future‑focused change at scale.

 

Key responsibilities

 

  • Lead and embed a best‑practice change management approach across the firm, aligned to recognised standards and ways of working.
  • Partner with senior leaders as a trusted adviser on the people impacts of transformation and effective change delivery.
  • Oversee change across a portfolio of complex initiatives, ensuring joined‑up, prioritised, and outcome‑focused delivery.
  • Support operational and cultural integration across transatlantic teams, processes, and systems, including AI adoption.
  • Work closely with programme and project managers to fully integrate change activity into delivery plans.
  • Line manage and develop a small team of Change Managers, setting clear priorities and ensuring consistently high‑quality practice.
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders and drive adoption, readiness, and benefits realisation, addressing resistance early.

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

 

  • Significant experience leading change in complex, professional services or matrixed organisations (law firm experience desirable).
  • Experience establishing or maturing a change management function.
  • Working knowledge of Prosci change management methodology, and experience applying it pragmatically in delivery environments.
  • Experience managing and developing change professionals.
  • Confidence engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including partners and executives.
  • Experience working alongside formal project delivery approaches (waterfall, agile, or hybrid).
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and coaching skills, with a practical, outcomes‑focused mindset.
  • Interest in or experience of technology‑enabled change, particularly AI and digital adoption.

 

Benefits

 

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

 

  • Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week) 
  • Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata). 
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child). 

 

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available. 

 

Our culture

 

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation.  We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team.  We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

 

The way we work

 

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.  

 

Taylor Wessing

 

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition. 

 

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Change  team, with the addition of a Senior Manager Change Management.

 

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