Manager, Legal Operations

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the General Counsel to oversee departmental priorities, initiatives, and operational goals that align with Liquidia's corporate strategy and growth objectives.

• Create and track KPIs, dashboards, and reporting metrics to assess the performance and service delivery of the legal department.

• Recognize and implement process enhancements that boost efficiency, mitigate risk, and elevate stakeholder experience.

• Formulate and uphold standard operating procedures, templates, playbooks, and workflow documentation.

• Oversee departmental projects and cross-functional initiatives.

• Spearhead the implementation, optimization, and management of legal and compliance technology solutions, including CLM, document management, matter management, and compliance systems.

• Set up centralized repositories and knowledge management resources.

• Assess emerging legal technology and AI-driven solutions.

• Promote the usage of legal technology tools through training, communication, change management, and continuous support.

• Manage relationships with outside counsel billing departments and legal service providers.

• Supervise billing guidelines, spend management, and vendor performance metrics.

• Monitor legal expenditures and enhance cost efficiency.

• Collaborate with Finance to develop, manage, and track the budget for the Legal and Compliance department.

• Review spending against forecasts and provide reports, analyses, and recommendations.

• Oversee invoice review and approval processes and assist with annual budgeting and financial planning.

• Support contract lifecycle management, including intake, tracking, execution, storage, obligations management, and reporting.

• Create tools and processes for contract visibility, obligations, renewals, and risks.

• Streamline contracting workflows and turnaround times with internal stakeholders.

• Maintain records of corporate insurance policies and assist with renewals.

• Coordinate documentation for insurance renewals and claims.

• Establish procedures for identifying, documenting, and escalating potential claims or risk events.

• Monitor claims and risk mitigation activities until resolution.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree is required.

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in legal operations, corporate legal support, compliance operations, contract management, paralegal functions, or related business operations roles.

• Proven experience in implementing operational improvements, legal technologies, and scalable business processes.

• Experience in managing budgets, vendor relationships, and expenses related to outside counsel.

• Strong analytical, organizational, project management, and communication skills.

• Capability to handle multiple priorities in a dynamic, cross-functional, and highly collaborative environment.

• Proficiency in legal technology platforms, Microsoft 365 applications, and reporting tools.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting an in-house legal department within the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or healthcare sectors.

• Preferred: Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM), matter management, billing by outside counsel, and compliance systems.

• Preferred: Certification in legal operations, project management, compliance, or process improvement methodologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Short-term disability (STD)

• Long-term disability (LTD)

• 401(k) Savings Retirement Plan

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)