We're working on a fantastic role with a leading global tech company who are looking for a Legal Project Manager to support their team for an initial period of 6 months.
The role will involve:
- Supporting the EMEA Legal team on spend management initiatives
- Negotiating AFAs on high-legal spend matters and proactively looking for for opportunities to negotiate AFAs
- Assist with trainings re AFAs
- Running RFPs including attending follow-up interviews with vendors and the Legal team
- Collaborating with the Legal team to create RFP templates for small and large RFPs
- Collaborating with the PERSUIT team to build RFP templates via PERSUIT
- Drafting process documents and playbooks
- Rolling out the MRA programme to new firms and complete all outstanding MRAs
- Negotiating with law firms on pricing
Skills required:
- Qualified lawyer
- Experience from both in-house and a law firm to provide experience from both sides of the same coin
- Project/programme management experience
- Outside counsel management experience, including benchmarking hourly rates
- Track record developing and implementing solutions or operational improvements
- Able to easily build relationships with cross functional teams and suppliers
- Naturally curious and a proactive problem solver