Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager

Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Legal Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

March 31, 2025

Business unit:

Legal

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The Legal Sourcing team within Legal is critical to delivering success in transforming operational performance and optimising the use of our finite resources with a focus on value and cost. The Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager role is a key one for purposes of enabling the team to deliver results through innovation and efficient processes and support. The Legal Sourcing team is a multi-disciplinary team made up of specialists with expertise ranging from matter pricing to data analytics to finance operations. Driving excellence in the area of negotiations of fee arrangements with our external counsel is an area of particular focus, and critically important to success of the team, and of Legal overall.

Legal is a positive place to work, where our culture of innovation and cooperation helps us to deliver ever more efficient and cost-effective results in support of the business. We work as one team and are committed to excellence.

This is an ideal role for a candidate with experience and background in legal operations management, combined with deep knowledge and expertise in the field of legal services pricing and the negotiation of fee structures and arrangements. The ideal candidate will bring to the role a depth of experience working within a law firm setting, directing law firm pricing strategy and leading negotiations for the law firm in pricing fee arrangements with clients. The successful candidate will have a background of managing teams, performing as an effective leader, while simultaneously adding value as an individual contributor on high value projects.

What you’ll be doing

In this role we will be looking to the successful candidate to:

• Lead a diverse group of legal professionals delivering legal operations support across the organization

• Not only lead, but actively contribute to the work of the Sourcing & Analytics team, working with lawyers around the world in developing RFP materials, assessing proposals from law firms, developing alternative fee arrangements, and managing same through the life of a matter

• Innovate by proactively evolving and improving on the pricing processes and systems that are in place today, to extend our position as a leader in the industry

• Actively look at the services provided and assess where they can be improved, expanded, evolved or removed in order to deliver ever more efficient, cost-effective and innovative support

• Develop metrics and systems to track and report on key aspects of legal operations delivery, and legal department delivery more generally

What you bring

The successful candidate will work closely with and be accountable for delivery of results to the Head of Legal Operations.

An energetic self-starter, you will have:

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

• At least 5+ years of experience in leading a pricing team in a large law firm

• Experience with developing and tracking KPIs for legal teams

• Experience in procurement and RFP development, and assessment

• Strong team leadership skillset with excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills

• Organizational abilities, with project, program and portfolio leadership skills, capable of setting and delivering on both short term deliverables, and longer term goals

• Flexible nature and willingness to adapt and take on additional duties as the role evolves

• Creative streak, proactively scanning the legal industry to identify new ways to do things, best practices to adopt and generally having an innovation mindset

• Proven experience in managing and improving end to end processes and delivering in a complex, global and virtual environment

• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, with a demonstrated ability to deal with competing priorities and complex issues

• Proven ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels in a complex management structure

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $314,000 per year.  Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.   

For regular full-time or regular