Associate Director, 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 Associate Director, Legal Operations is a leadership role focused on transforming legal processes, technology adoption, and knowledge management within AbbVie’s Legal Department. This role will drive cross-functional initiatives that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and modernize legal workflows through automation and AI-driven solutions.

The ideal candidate has deep legal operations expertise, a strategic mindset, and experience leading process improvement initiatives. This role requires influencing senior leadership, collaborating with IT and finance partners, and ensuring high adoption of technology-driven solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Legal Operations Strategy – Drive process optimization for both operational and substantive legal workflows to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Workflow Automation – Identify and implement AI and automation solutions to streamline manual legal tasks, reducing administrative burden and improving speed and accuracy.
• Knowledge Management – Spearhead systemic improvements to centralize legal data, enhance knowledge retrieval, and improve collaboration to reduce redundant work and institutionalize best practices.
• Technology Leadership – Evaluate, deploy, and optimize legal tech tools, ensuring seamless integration into existing legal workflows and compatibility with existing toolkit (including, e.g., iManage, Microsoft Power Platform, Passport, and custom-built solutions).
• AI & Innovation Strategy – Execute the roadmap for AI adoption across AbbVie Legal by overseeing the full lifecy