People and Talent Strategy Implementation Manager – Fixed Term Contract to September 2027
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About the Role
Clifford Chance seeks a People and Talent Strategy Implementation Manager on a fixed-term contract until September 2027. The role sits at the centre of the Global HR function, driving delivery of the People & Talent Strategy, coordinating global processes, and acting as a trusted advisor to the Chief People Officer.
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Responsibilities
- Drive delivery of the People & Talent Strategy including defining priorities, ensuring alignment to the firm's strategy and driving accountability across the HR function
- Coordinate the global people & talent cycle, ensuring consistent and timely delivery of key processes
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Chief People Officer, supporting execution of strategic priorities and coordination of operational processes
- Support the ongoing evolution of the HR operating model, driving alignment, consistency and scalability across the function
- Support prioritisation and sequencing of strategic initiatives for the CPO and wider HR function
- Own and shape HR agendas and inputs for global governance forums
- Drive executive decision making, translating complex inputs into clear recommendations, actions and outcomes
- Maintain oversight of decisions, ensuring follow through and delivery of agreed outcomes
- Lead development of HR content for firmwide forums and ensure alignment to strategic priorities
- Lead Global HR communications and engagement, including townhalls and newsletters
- Influence and align stakeholders across the firm, ensuring delivery against agreed priorities
- Partner with Finance to support budget management, cost tracking and financial governance
Requirements
- HR professional with broad experience, including in HR strategy, transformation and business operations within a complex, global organisation
- Proven track record of delivering large scale, cross functional programmes and strategic initiatives at pace
- Experience of working closely with partners, alongside engagement with senior executives and leadership teams
- Strong experience of operating in a global environment, driving alignment across offices, functions and stakeholder groups
- Experience leading or supporting HR operating model evolution, transformation or organisational change initiatives
- Experience using data, analytics and reporting to inform decision making and track impact
- Exposure to financial and resource planning, including working with budgets and headcount considerations
- Strong commercial awareness together with a strong understanding of how a global HR function operates
- Knowledge of global people processes and annual HR cycles
- Ideally formal HR qualifications e.g. CIPD or equivalent
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Who we are
- As a global law firm our work spans jurisdictions, cultures, and languages – and so do our people.
- Our culture is collaborative and inclusive, where diverse perspectives are recognised and valued.
- We combine deep legal expertise and commercial intelligence to grow, transform, protect, and defend our clients' businesses.
Job Description
- The ideal start date for this role is September 2026.
- This role sits at the centre of the Global HR function, with responsibility for coordinating across the function to drive the delivery of the People & Talent Strategy.
- Operating as a trusted advisor to the Chief People Officer (CPO), the role combines strategy execution, governance leadership, senior stakeholder engagement, as well as hands on delivery.
What you will be responsible for
- Drive delivery of the People & Talent Strategy including defining priorities, ensuring alignment to the firm's strategy and driving accountability across the HR function.
- Coordinate the global people & talent cycle, ensuring consistent and timely delivery of key processes in light of internal functional and external firm initiatives.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the CPO, supporting execution of strategic priorities and coordination of operational processes for the CPO office.
- Support the ongoing evolution of the HR operating model, driving alignment, consistency and scalability across the function.
- Support prioritisation and sequencing of strategic initiatives for the CPO and wider HR function, balancing trade offs to maximise impact.
- Own and shape HR agendas and inputs for global governance forums, ensuring focus on key priorities, decisions and forward looking topics.
- Drive executive decision making, translating complex inputs into clear recommendations, actions and outcomes.
- Maintain oversight of decisions, ensuring follow through and delivery of agreed outcomes.
- Lead development of HR content for firmwide forums and ensure alignment to strategic priorities and clear accountability.
- Lead Global HR communications and engagement, including townhalls and newsletters.
- Influence and align stakeholders across the firm, ensuring delivery against agreed priorities.
- Partner with Finance to support budget management, cost tracking and financial governance.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic priorities into clear plans, governance and measurable outcomes.
- Proven ability to operate with high levels of autonomy, ambiguity and complexity, influencing senior stakeholders and driving delivery without direct authority.
- HR professional with broad experience, including in HR strategy, transformation and business operations within a complex, global organisation.
- Proven track record of delivering large scale, cross functional programmes and strategic initiatives at pace.
- Experience of working closely with partners is required, alongside engagement with senior executives and leadership teams, providing insight, challenge and decision support.
- Strong experience of operating in a global environment, driving alignment across offices, functions and stakeholder groups.
- Experience leading or supporting HR operating model evolution, transformation or organisational change initiatives.
- Experience using data, analytics and reporting to inform decision making and track impact.
- Exposure to financial and resource planning, including working with budgets and headcount considerations.
- Strong commercial awareness together with a strong understanding of how a global HR function operates, including the interdependencies across different teams and functions.
- Knowledge of global people processes and annual HR cycles, and how to drive consistency and simplification across geographies.
- You will ideally have formal HR qualifications e.g. CIPD or equivalent.
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