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 in alignment with Liquidia's corporate strategy and growth objectives.

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

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

• Develop and sustain standard operating procedures, templates, playbooks, and documentation workflows.

• Manage departmental projects and cross-functional initiatives effectively.

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

• Create centralized repositories and knowledge management resources.

• Assess emerging legal technology and AI-driven solutions.

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

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

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

• Monitor legal expenditures and pinpoint opportunities for cost efficiency.

• Collaborate with Finance to formulate, manage, and track the Legal and Compliance departmental budget.

• Keep track of expenditures against forecasts and provide reports, analyses, and recommendations.

• Manage the 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.

• Enhance visibility into contract status, obligations, renewal timelines, and risk areas.

• 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 management.

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

• Track claims and risk mitigation activities until resolution.

• Carry out additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree is required.

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

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

• Experience in budget management, vendor relationships, and oversight of outside counsel expenditures.

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

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

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

• Experience supporting an in-house legal department in the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or healthcare sectors is preferred.

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

• Certification in legal operations, project management, compliance, or process improvement methodologies is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Short-term disability (STD)

• Long-term disability (LTD)

• 401(k) Savings Retirement Plan

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Comprehensive benefits package

• Competitive compensation package