Director, Legal Operations

About Us

Ameren is a leader in the energy industry, and our transformation toward more clean, renewable energy is also  transforming other industries and infrastructure in our communities.  As a regional company serving local customers, we not only serve our communities, we're a part of them. This isn't just a job. At Ameren, we invest in you, so you can power the quality of life you want.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is one of the core values that guides us in everything we do. We are committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that brings diverse perspectives to every area of our business.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire

• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan

• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire

• Long Term Incentive Plan

• Option to enroll in Deferred Compensation

• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays

• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave

Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees. ​

About Ameren Services (B&CS)

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

About The Position

The Director, Legal Operations role will work closely with the Legal Department leadership team to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of legal services to the organization in alignment with the Department's strategies, goals, and objectives. The role will support the Department through rigorous planning processes, budget planning and management, technology strategy and delivery, diversity strategy and planning, communications, team development, strategic outside counsel planning, data analytics, development of performance and productivity metrics and tools, and general Department coordination, planning and support. The role is responsible for strategic and tactical aspects of the Department's relationships with and engagement of law firms. This role will provide broad exposure to some of the most important operations, performance excellence and workforce issues facing the Department and the Company and is a great opportunity to be an innovative leader and make a meaningful impact.  This position is also responsible for managing a team of paralegals, legal assistants, and a legal operations specialist.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the paralegal team and manage their efforts to provide paralegal services effectively and efficiently across all legal and regulatory specialty areas in support of various business needs.  Lead the legal assistants team to effectively support attorneys and paralegals in providing best in class legal services.  Lead a legal operations specialist to help achieve the operational goals and objectives for a successful Legal Department.

• Design and manage strategic law firm relationship plan to develop and maintain effective partnerships between internal and external counsel, increase innovation, implement measures to improve service levels and control outside counsel spend, oversee budget management, deploy technology solutions, lead diversity initiatives, enhance communications, develop appropriate performance and productivity measures, and facilitate other law firm partnership objectives.

• Manage and guide Ameren's strategic law firm relationship plan, with a focus on controlling outside counsel spend through internal-external staffing strategy, pricing negotiations, alternative fee arrangements, requests for proposals, budget management, Law Firm selection and streamlining, staffing measures and behavior changes including designing appropriate tools, metrics and processes, and policies and procedures regarding the same.

• Develop and lead the implementation of a technology roadmap aligned with Department strategies and objectives and designed to facilitate delivery of technology solutions (e.g., Matter Management Systems and/or Document Management Systems) that will enable the provision of cost-efficient, innovative, data-informed, excellent legal services.    

• Design and manage with relevant partners in Data Analytics, Digital