Assistant Director, Legal Transformation – Enablement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the legal operations, technology enablement, process optimization, and contracting infrastructure at Telix.

• Manage legal intake/routing, matter management, contract playbooks, template libraries, knowledge management, and tools for self-service business needs.

• Spearhead AI-enhanced legal workflows, agent design, prompt libraries, and AI-assisted contract review/drafting while ensuring human oversight and privacy/security protocols.

• Convert legal operations needs into detailed system specifications, user stories, workflows, and integration requirements.

• Collaborate with Information Technology and vendors throughout the phases of requirements gathering, design, testing, user acceptance testing, and production implementation.

• Take charge of legal operations metrics and KPI reporting, which includes contract cycle time, outside-counsel expenditure, contracting throughput, self-service adoption, and satisfaction metrics.

• Implement and oversee e-billing, matter taxonomy, outside-counsel guidelines, spend reporting, and budget forecasting.

• Lead change management and organizational adoption initiatives, which encompass communications, training, feedback loops, and tracking of adoption rates.

• Develop a scalable contracting infrastructure and enhance high-volume commercial and procurement contracting processes.

• Supervise legal technology vendors, budgets, business cases, and return-on-investment analyses.

• Manage and mentor the Legal Operations Specialist in the United States.

• Coordinate cross-functional legal operations with the Legal Governance & Operations Specialist based in Australia.

• Collaborate with Procurement, Information Technology, Finance, Commercial Operations, and various business stakeholders.

• Assist in contract negotiations and commercial contracting for procurement and operational issues.

• Own the strategy for legal enablement and establish benchmarks for adoption as well as change management plans.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of combined experience in legal practice and/or leadership in legal operations.

• Strong background in legal processes and technology is essential.

• Preferably, prior in-house experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or healthcare sectors.

• Proven experience with the architecture of Contract Lifecycle Management platforms and enterprise system integrations.

• Experience working closely with Information Technology teams through requirements definition, design, user acceptance testing, and production rollout.

• Demonstrated familiarity with e-billing systems, AI/legal technology tools, Microsoft 365/SharePoint, and process/change management.

• Experience in people management is required.

• Direct experience in negotiating or reviewing enterprise-level commercial agreements is preferred.

• Budgeting and forecasting experience related to technology or operations initiatives is desirable.

• Project management certification (PMP, Agile/Scrum) or equivalent experience is a plus.

• Strong capabilities in communication, collaboration, adaptability, ethical behavior, and a commitment to continuous learning.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries.

• Health and wellbeing incentives.

• Bonus incentives.

• Support for learning and development opportunities.

• Annual performance-based bonuses.

• Equity-based incentive program.

• Generous vacation policy.

• Paid wellness days.

• Options for hybrid and remote work arrangements.