Lean Six Sigma Analyst

Job description

Lean Six Sigma Analyst

Manchester or Leeds

Salary range: £38-50,000 a year depending on location and experience

Role Overview

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our Consulting & Technology team.

The Consulting and Technology practice incorporates legal technology and Lean Six Sigma expertise providing services:

1. Directly to clients
2. With and to Vario Managed Legal Services
3. To Pinsent Masons' legal teams (as an internal client)

We have developed our consultancy model to support our clients' operational transformation by deploying our technology and process expertise including technology assessment, implementation, contract lifecycle management, business analysis, and broader legal operations consultancy.

Through process optimisation, data analysis and stakeholder engagement, we help enable transformation and support change management.

The Lean Six Sigma Analyst is responsible for delivering internal and client-facing continuous improvement activity and supporting a culture of sustainable change. They will lead and facilitate workshops, recommend better ways of working, assess the impact of process/technology change, analyse data using Six Sigma tools and coach Yellow Belts through their certification process.

This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with technology consultants, project managers and MLS service personnel on client engagements to help deliver the 'Process' element of the People, Process and Technology agenda. There will also be opportunities to support clients directly with process improvement engagements separately, and independent, from other Vario or firm wide activities.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Significant experience of working in legal or professional services
• Understanding of legal business processes
• Demonstrable continuous improvement experience including process improvement, project management and business analysis from conceptual design through to implementation and testing
• Working experience with various project delivery methodologies e.g. DMAIC, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, etc.

What can we offer you?

• Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, typically for half of the week)
• Carers' leave (up to five paid days' leave towards caring responsibilities)
• 25 days' annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
• Contributory pension of up to 5%.
• Private healthcare policy.
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

Our in-house recruiter, Bhavika Upton, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Bhavika by emailing [email protected]

#LI-BOBUThe Lean Six Sigma Analyst is responsible for delivering internal and client-facing continuous improvement activity and supporting a culture of sustainable change. They will lead and facilitate workshops, recommend better ways of working, assess the impact of process/technology change, analyse data using Six Sigma tools and coach Yellow Belts through their certification process.