Director, Global Legal Operations

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Job Function:
Legal & Compliance

Job Sub Function:
Law Business Partners

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Global Legal Operations to be based in New Brunswick, NJ.

Purpose: The Director, Global Legal Operations is a global leadership role responsible for driving operational excellence, consistency, scalability, and continuous improvement across the Global Legal Organization.

The Director will lead a globally distributed team of approximately five Legal Operations Team Leads and partner with legal leadership, functional teams, and key business partners to develop and implement common operating practices, processes, tools, metrics, and service-delivery approaches across geographies.

The Director will translate Legal strategy into efficient and scalable operational practices, balancing global standardization with legitimate regional and practice-specific requirements.

A central responsibility of the role is identifying opportunities to simplify and improve how work is performed, removing unnecessary complexity and friction, and establishing greater alignment across Legal teams globally.

The role will provide leadership across core Legal Operations capabilities, including strategic planning, process optimization, service delivery, financial and vendor management, data and analytics, technology enablement, knowledge management, program management, and organizational effectiveness.

You will be responsible for:

Global Legal Operations Leadership


* Lead, develop, and manage a globally distributed team of approximately five Legal Operations Team Leads, establishing clear priorities, roles, accountability, and performance expectations.


* Build the capabilities of Legal Operations leaders through coaching, feedback, development planning, succession planning, and knowledge sharing.


* Create a cohesive global Legal Operations team with consistent ways of working while recognizing appropriate regional and practice-area differences.


* Translate Global Legal Organization strategy and pr...