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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading complex Legal Transformation projects, establishing governance frameworks, and managing cross-functional teams. Proficient in defining measurable outcomes, stakeholder engagement, and utilizing project management tools to drive successful implementation and adoption.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Legal Operations ExperienceProject Governance EstablishmentCross-Functional Project LeadershipStakeholder Engagement and InfluenceChange Management Expertise
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Hard Skills
Project ManagementGovernance Framework DesignOutcome MeasurementRisk ManagementBusiness Case DevelopmentProcess ImprovementData AnalysisBudget ManagementTransformation Initiative LeadershipLegal Technology Proficiency
Soft Skills
Influencing Senior LeadersCommunication SkillsProblem-SolvingCollaborationCoaching
Tools & Technologies
SmartsheetMicrosoft ProjectJiraExcelPowerPointSharePointTeamsWorkflow Automation ToolsContract Lifecycle Management SoftwareEnterprise Legal Management Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
PMPLean Six SigmaAgileProsci
Industry Keywords
Legal TransformationCorporate Legal EnvironmentCross-Functional ProjectsProfessional ServicesFinanceHRIT
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPMP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead multiple complex Legal Transformation projects or programs from strategy and scoping through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization
- Define project scope, objectives, success measures, decision rights, milestones, resource requirements, dependencies, and deliverables
- Own integrated project and program plans, including timelines, resource models, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and executive reporting
- Design and establish governance frameworks, operating cadences, escalation paths, decision forums, and accountability mechanisms
- Lead interdependent workstreams across Legal, Finance, HR, Communications, IT, Procurement, and business teams
- Anticipate risks, evaluate business and operational impacts, recommend mitigation strategies, and drive actions to closure
- Define outcome measures, adoption indicators, and value-realization metrics; analyze performance and recommend course corrections
- Develop executive-level updates, dashboards, and recommendations communicating progress, tradeoffs, risks, decisions, and expected outcomes
- Lead stakeholder engagement, change management, communications, training, readiness, adoption, and post-launch reinforcement strategies
- Advise Legal leaders on project structure, governance, operating-model design, prioritization, sequencing, and implementation
- Lead development and implementation of global legal operating models, standardized processes, roles, controls, governance routines, and implementation roadmaps
- Manage Legal communications channels and routines with Communications and HR, including Viva Engage, quarterly Extended Leadership Team meetings, and the Legal intranet
- Partner with Finance and budget owners on subscription management, investment inputs, spend visibility, forecasting, and annual operating plan execution
- Lead post-implementation reviews and convert lessons learned into scalable standards, playbooks, templates, controls, and process improvements
- Coach project leads, legal professionals, and senior stakeholders on project and change-management practices
- Establish and improve Legal project-management methods, templates, dashboards, intake mechanisms, prioritization approaches, and reporting standards
- Represent Legal Transformation in cross-functional planning and governance forums
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of progressive experience leading complex cross-functional projects, programs, or transformation initiatives in a corporate, professional-services, legal-operations, finance, HR, IT, or comparable environment
- Experience independently leading initiatives from scope definition and business case development through implementation, adoption, and outcome measurement
- Experience establishing project or program governance, including decision rights, executive cadences, risk management, escalation mechanisms, and leadership reporting
- Experience managing multiple interdependent workstreams, priorities, budgets, resources, risks, and stakeholders in a global or matrixed organization
- Ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders, resolve ambiguity, frame decisions, and drive accountability without direct authority
- Ability to translate complex business and project information into concise executive communications, recommendations, dashboards, and decision materials
- Ability to define measurable outcomes and use project, financial, operational, or adoption data to guide decisions and corrective actions
- Experience in legal operations or a corporate legal environment
- Experience leading enterprise or function-wide transformation initiatives involving multiple regions, functions, or technology platforms
- Experience developing business cases, investment recommendations, prioritization frameworks, or benefits-realization plans
- Experience designing governance models, global processes, or scalable operating standards
- Experience presenting recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership
- Experience with legal technology, contract lifecycle management, enterprise legal management, workflow automation, analytics, or enterprise transformation
- Experience using project-management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, or similar tools
- Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, communications, finance, operations, information systems, or a related field (valued)
- PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Prosci, or other project or change management certification, or equivalent practical experience (valued)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Educational Assistance
- Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Hybrid work schedule with up to 2 days a week remote
- Limited travel for project, team, or leadership meetings