Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dexian is seeking an experienced Legal Project Manager V to support a global legal organization. The role focuses on legal spend and outside counsel management, legal pricing and contract negotiations, legal RFPs, and operational improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support legal spend management initiatives and identify opportunities to optimize legal costs
- Negotiate Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) for high-spend legal matters
- Support AFA training and related legal operations initiatives
- Lead legal RFPs, including vendor coordination and follow-up interviews
- Develop RFP templates and collaborate with RFP teams on online RFP tools
- Create process documentation, SOPs, and legal operations playbooks
- Support rollout and completion of MRA programs with law firms
- Negotiate pricing and rates with outside counsel
- Partner with Legal and cross-functional teams to implement operational improvements
Skills
- 6+ years of overall professional experience
- Experience in both an in-house legal department and a law firm
- Project or program management experience
- Strong contract negotiation experience with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience managing outside counsel, including hourly-rate benchmarking
- Direct experience with legal pricing and AFA negotiations
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing operational improvements
- Strong communication, problem-solving, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
- Strong proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office
- Bachelor's degree required
- PMP or similar certification
- Prior experience in a technology company
- Familiarity with eBilling and online RFP software
- Experience with Tableau or other dashboarding/analytics tools
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