Senior Legal Ops Specialist

Position Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of “shaping a sustainable world together,” we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents. 

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Position Overview 

The Legal team, located in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Senior Legal Operations Specialist for its growing legal operations team. The Senior Legal Operations Specialist is responsible for helping develop and implement strategic processes to streamline legal service delivery, facilitate change, improve knowledge management and sharing capabilities, control costs, and support legal technology implementations to evolve the Global Legal team into a strategic and data-driven function. 

Reporting to the Head of Legal Operations, this role will help execute the legal department’s operating model and legal strategic roadmap to drive enhanced organizational effectiveness. This role involves managing and supporting projects across a full spectrum of legal and business matters and will require having excellent communication and organizational skills and a passion for driving operational excellence. 

 

The successful Senior Legal Operations Specialist will be a proactive, forward-thinking agent of change to identify areas of need, generate project action plans, and have proven legal operations and project management experience, as well as a familiarity of legal technology.

 

The Senior Legal Operations Specialist should be highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to work independently and prioritize projects based on criticality.  This role will require the candidate to build strong partnerships with legal and business stakeholders to build scalable processes and systems and ensure adoption.

 

Responsibilities 

• Legal Operations Center of Excellence (COE) Support
  • Support the implementation of the global legal strategy and help establish the governance framework for the Legal Operations COE
  • Help build legal operations to drive operational excellence in key areas, including legal spending, department reporting, information governance, vendor management, litigation management, and legal technology, and AI and automation.
  • Provide administrative support to the Legal Operations COE, including scheduling meetings, calendar management, and legal document preparation, filing, and storage.
• Project Management Office Support
  • Provide support to legal operations and special projects using project management tools, including charters, checklists, and tools to ensure timely delivery
  • Work closely with relevant stakeholders to understand project objectives and strategic outcomes and generate project support and sponsorship
• Legal Process Optimization
  • Identify and help document, optimize, and implement standardized processes for routine legal work and support the implementation of streamlined legal workflows to improve efficiency
• Legal Technology and Systems
  • Support the implementation of the legal technology portfolio strategy and technology investments to modernize legal service delivery
  • Help administer and maintain legal technologies, including document management systems, knowledge management hubs, legal e-billing tools, legal dashboards, litigation technologies, and legal research tools
• Vendor Portfolio Management
  • Maintain and manage vendor portfolio of preferred legal service providers, assess vendor performance, and review vendor invoicing based on fee structures and billing guidelines
  • Help evaluate in-house capabilities, identify vendor support needs, and drive cost saving opportunities
• Knowledge and Matter Management
  • Support the development of a knowledge management program and knowledge sharing practices to track and manage all legal matters
  • Help develop matter management and document management systems, information repositories, knowledge hubs, document templates, summaries, and lessons learned to allow easy information access
• Budget Management
  • Support management of the department's legal spend through cost analysis and identifying cost savings opportunities
  • Support ongoing budget planning activities, including accruals, tracking expenses, and budget forecasting
  • Oversee legal invoicing process an