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6 Month FTC

As the subject matter expert and lead of client service design for the firm, you’ll be responsible for utilising insight and research to improve and develop client journeys and experiences. Working closely with a diverse range of colleagues across Client Experience and Insight, Business Performance, Marketing and Change you’ll focus on bringing friction points and opportunities to life, providing tangible solutions to drive improvement, embedding a personalised experience, which increases recommendation, word of mouth and reputation.

As a lead service designer, you’ll balance strategic thinking with hands-on design work, ensuring that services meet client needs effectively.

What You’ll Be Doing

Client Experience:

• Lead internal conversations, workshops and research activities to help evaluate and improve services and experiences across IM. Undertake activities to understand, co-create and map customer journeys and services from end to end, highlighting key touchpoints, pain points, customer needs and opportunities to add value where it matters to our customers.
• Be a pioneer, stay up to date with industry and market trends to continuously improve our offer and stay ahead. Utilise operational, brand and customer KPIs; as well as customer and market insight and feedback to understand how our customers feel about our legal service delivery and manage a roadmap of customer focussed opportunities.
• Create concepts, proposals and plans for client improvements or services and create service blueprints, bringing the vision and challenges to life, enabling delivery teams to quickly implement client led changes. Consider client needs, business goals, and technical constraints while shaping these concepts.
• Translate high-level ideas into actionable improvement opportunities, working with finance, business performance and practice operations to further develop and refine the concept to meet both business and client needs.
• Lead the design on multiple projects running in tandem, with the ability to work alone or in collaboration with others.
• Continuously assess existing services for improvement opportunities. Use data, client feedback, and analytics to identify areas for enhancement and propose and implement changes that enhance usability, efficiency, and overall satisfaction.
• Validate improvements using real client feedback and iterate improvements ensuring any change is embedded and fit for purpose and provide advice and recommended approaches to organisational challenges, bringing to life the impact on the clients journey
• Plan and facilitate groups including legal teams, support services, senior business area leads and central services towards a common goal and be the voice of the client in the room
• Utilise segmentation and personas to ensure various clients feedback and opinions are considered when journeys or services are evaluated
• Lead the development and utilisation of core customer centric thinking, tools and techniques.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate insights in a simple and engaging way which drives action

Subject Matter Expert (SME):

• Champion the voice of the customer consistently, identifying opportunities to maximise customer value, productivity, efficiency and service delivery.
• Be an expert in Design thinking methodology and customer journey mapping and improvement implementation
• Customer Advocacy and Culture Champion: Embody the voice of the customer within the organisation, championing their needs and fostering a client led culture across all IM teams
• Drive and initiate customer focussed changes, ensuring that decisions, projects, processes and key performance indicators are customer centric led.
• Be the point of reference across the wider business for end to end knowledge of all IM client journeys
• Competitive Awareness: Stay informed about our competitors’ customer experience offerings. Identify opportunities where we can distinguish ourselves and enhance our own services.

• Extensive experience in service design or customer journey design, with a good track record of designing new processes and experiences and delivering customer focussed improvements within a large scale service delivery business.
• Customer centric mind-set, able to credibly operate as the voice of the customer within business discussions and projects.
• Ability to simplify complex, cross departmental information and processes, enabling improvement opportunities to be found
• Previous experience of Design Thinking methodology and journey mapping.
• Able to credibly operate as the voice of the customer within business discussions and projects.
• High quality verbal and written presentation skills to articulate the concept of design or service improvements.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with experience at facilitating senior face to face workshops
• Experience of working with complex data, research and insight – surfacing ley areas of improvement
• Excellent MS excel and PowerPoint skills and experience of journey mapping software
• Resilient and change focused – will have a track record of delivering step change customer improvements, as well as incremental improvements within a large service delivery business.
• Drive and ambition to improve customer processes and services, able to work independently and in an agile approach.
• Inquisitive mind-set and has the ability to look beyond the norm and find new ways of working.
• Excellent communicator, with high levels of emotional intelligence and empathy.
• Exceptional planning qualities; a passion for organising and delivering projects while inspiring cross-functional teams differing roles, levels of experience and areas of focus
• Can bring new ideas for enhancing and expanding our existing activities
• The ability to easily establish trust-based relationships with multiple stakeholders and gain valuable insights and ideas for improvement through collaboration and communication
• Drive and tenacity; enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination and optimism

This role is a 6 month fixed term contract

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.