Legal Operations Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a forward-thinking legal operations strategy that supports Waters’ growth trajectory and evolving business demands
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable plans by designing and implementing objectives and metrics that demonstrate the legal department’s performance and value as business enablers and risk optimizers
• Analyze and visualize legal department data to help ensure effective and efficient staffing to enable the legal department to scale with business demand
• Manage or direct a team of professionals to provide high-value and high-volume agreements in accordance with established templates and processes
• Transform our legal operations through strategic and expanding use of emerging technologies (including generative AI and advanced legal-tech) and best practices, effective integration with other business applications, and development of scalable processes across the business
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives across workflows, identifying opportunities for optimization while maintaining the highest standards of legal quality
• Oversee e-billing processes, working with Waters’ finance department to provide accurate and up-to-date spend summaries
• Other special projects, such as maintaining up to date trackers for intellectual property registrations, assisting with security and / or privacy audit tracking, drafting internal communications, conducting file-management, leading process and operational standards and improvements that help the business scale, implementing and taking ownership for other legal technology solutions, procuring and analyzing data relevant to the operations of the legal department

Qualifications