Manager - Outside Counsel Management, Legal Operations

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Manager, Outside Counsel Management focuses on programs and business processes designed to maximize the value AbbVie’s outside law firms and legal vendors provide. This role will also oversee the day-to-day operations of the outside counsel management function and interact with legal professionals at all levels at AbbVie to ensure smooth functioning of processes from law firm/vendor selection, through onboarding, matter management and review. 

The ideal candidate will have legal industry experience either in the finance, pricing or legal project management functions of law firms or in legal operations and outside counsel management in a large corporate legal department.  This role requires strong problem-solving and communication skills as well as a customer-service mindset.  The role will work cross-functionally with AbbVie’s legal operations technology, IT and finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day functioning of the outside counsel management team (e.g., manage communications with law firms, resolve issues related to fee agreements, rates, guideline compliance, etc.).
• Monitor and report on legal spend and matter management, including tracking overall department spend levels, performance against budget, matter staffing, etc.
• Manage annual rate review process by overseeing the collection and analysis of rate proposals, and providing recommendations on rate approvals.
• Support the RFP process, managing communications with firms and vendors; collection of information and analysis of proposals
• Support the use of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) by providing data-driven analysis to support AFA negotiations.
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