Legal Operations Manager

What are we looking for in our Legal Operations Manager?

Our client, a global leader in the real estate and supply chain logistics space, is hiring for a versatile Legal Operations Manager. If you want to join a world class team who's development infrastructure effectively contributes to 2.8% of the world's GDP, consider applying!

About the Team:

You will be a part of a growing legal operations team that works cross-functionally to help achieve our ambitious mission of enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Legal Operations Manager to join our dynamic legal team. Reporting to the Director of Legal Operations, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping and optimizing the legal team’s operations. This position presents a unique opportunity to make an impact by fostering excellence in legal operations, implementing cutting-edge technologies, like AI, and ensuring that the commercial team operates at peak efficiency.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide support in the implementation and management of streamlined commercial legal operations, including aspects like metrics reporting, dashboard creation, systems operations, and leveraging contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools. Contribute to the continuous improvement and optimization of these processes to maximize their benefit to the organization.
• Collaborate in coordinating cross-functional commercial operations projects to establish best practices within the legal domain, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance with legal requirements.
• Play a crucial role in implementing, fostering, and promoting best practices in the commercial legal team's technology initiatives to sustain Legal's cutting-edge technological stance. This involves working with systems such as CLM, SimpleLegal (e-billing), ediscovery, and managing knowledge for ongoing projects.
• Assist in the creation and management of legal enablement programs designed to provide training on commercial legal processes and tools to the legal department and other cross-functional teams. The deliverables may include training materials, playbooks and FAQs.
• Provide support in the management of legal technology and data analytics, ensuring optimal use and accurate insights.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with in-house legal operations and contracts management.
• Hands-on knowledge of technology systems, including SimpleLegal, Microsoft Suite (e.g, Sharepoint, Word, Excel, PPT, Power Automate, BI, etc.), Smartsheets, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, CLM implementation, ediscovery, technology training, and system maintenance.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on translating business requirements into automated system tasks and workflows. A flexible approach to adjust and scale in response to evolving business requirements.
• You have a proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional groups (e.g., Finance, Operations, and IT) to set objectives and produce meaningful results that have tangible business impact
• You have an interest in becoming proficient in other tools used to support commercial legal teams, including tools utilizing cutting-edge technologies.
• Experience in a high-growth environment (preferred.)

The expected range for this position is between $114K-$157K. Total compensation package, including target bonuses and internal equity to be determined by the candidate’s location, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in alignment with market data.