Legal Project Manager
2 weeks ago
Our client, a leading American e-commerce company, is searching for an experienced Legal Operations Manager. This role requires your presence in Brooklyn Office once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office.
What does the day-to-day look like?
- Legal billing: Manage the entire legal billing process, including day-to-day management of our legal billing software tool and strategic initiatives to optimize our billing process. Create billing matters, troubleshoot individual billing issues, build spend reports, and liaise with finance and accounting partners to ensure effective management and cross-visibility of our legal spend and billing. Work with internal partners to uplevel and optimize our billing processes overall
- Build and run operational processes: Develop, implement, and oversee process maps and OKRs for all legal operations processes, and provide project management, process oversight and reporting to measure results. Operational our initiatives in the legal department, including those relating to budgeting and spend, updates to our policies and procedures, and other strategic initiatives.
- Budget planning and management: Coordinate and drive annual and ongoing budget planning and development among senior leaders for our department cost centers and initiatives, including support for legal leadership in resource planning, outside counsel spend management, and related accounting dependencies.
- Technology strategy: End-to-end responsibility for management of legal software and tech solutions, including procuring new tools as needed, from the RFP stage through implementation, maintenance and operations, with the legal, finance and accounting, and IT teams as your key internal clients and partners.
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:
- 5+ years’ experience managing complex projects for in-house legal departments; experience in building a legal operations function from the ground up.
- Executive presence and presentation skills to liaise with senior leadership across our department.
- Strong financial acumen, including experience in budget management and planning and accounting principles and dependencies.
- Strong technical skills and understanding of legal systems, tools, and technologies and vendor management experience, including RFP and implementation processes.
- Strong grasp of the dynamics of in-house/outside counsel relationships and legal pricing.
- Superior project management and organizational skills, with a demonstrated ability to track and analyze data to show results.
- The ability to think on your feet. We are a fast paced company and you are experienced in advising in real-time in meetings, including to the C-suite and board, providing accurate guidance and pragmatic solutions.
- Excellent communication and people skills, and you know how to collaborate and build relationships across teams.
- Practical, proactive, committed and financially literate.
- Independent and strategic problem solver who is a strong standout colleague (no job is too small or too large) and willing to take on additional responsibilities.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, innovative business.
About Elevate
Elevate provides consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong, and Australia.
ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.
Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex's success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry's most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.
As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team - help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.
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