Director, Operations, Legal Technology
Job Description:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, You Can Do Work That Matters, Grow, And Learn, Care For Yourself And Family, Be Your True Self And Live a Full Life. You Will Also Have Access To
- Career development with an international company where you can grow your dream career.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
As the Director, Legal Technology you will oversee the technical systems supporting Abbott’s Legal Department. You will lead strategy development, execution, and change management related to multiple high-priority initiatives. This position requires a comprehensive understanding of legal technology needs and tool options, along with close collaboration with Abbott IT, Legal leadership, and internal Legal teams to ensure projects are appropriately prioritized and successfully completed. You will be responsible for developing new solutions and enhancing existing ones to address critical operational challenges. Additionally, you will manage a team comprising both managers and individual contributors. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role on Abbott’s Legal Operations team.
What You'll Work On
- Stay updated on best practices, processes, and tool options in the legal technology space through benchmarking and continuous research.
- Accountable for successful evaluation and implementation of technologies and processes to enhance effectiveness of legal teams.
- Assess and monitor organizational needs and skillsets related to emerging technologies and focus areas (such as AI, data analytics and visualization, workflow, and process automation); develop strategies to effectively and sustainably support these areas.
- Develop strategic plan, directing and aligning projects with overall organizational strategy.
- Manage Legal’s systems budget, evaluating and managing costs and project prioritization with visibility to larger company-wide financial considerations.
- Serve as escalation point for legal technology vendor relationship management, focusing on strategic partnerships and the equitable sourcing of resources.
- Own and maintain Legal’s relationship with BTS to effectively align the interests of both organizations and maintain a highly collaborative working team.
- Participate in developing and implementing strategic legal technology initiatives supporting spend management, workflow, contracting, analytics, and document management.
- Drive strategy for using analytics and business intelligence to assess work and spend; identify opportunities for improving efficiencies and driving value.
- Collaborate internally and externally to analyze and improve processes and develop innovative solutions; develop communication strategy regarding legal technology processes and initiatives.
- Leverage existing technology, identify new technologies, and implement tools to increase business intelligence and efficiency.
- Participate in legal industry organizations to build and foster relationships throughout the industry to support a robust benchmarking program, benchmark approaches and identify best practices and new strategies and models for the delivery of legal technology.
- Oversee management of legal systems, including Passport, iManage, and GEMS.
- Supervise direct report(s).
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 8-10 years operations and management experience (with significant Law Department operations or law firm experience).
- Experience leading teams (both with direct staff and indirect project team).
- Excellent analytical skills (problem structuring and problem solving).
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Excellent project management skills
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
- Outstanding flexibility, adaptability, and sense of accountability
- Strong attention to detail, good judgement, and strong time management skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Ideally 2+ years of strategic Legal Operations experience, with knowledge of legal technologies.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across a large or mid-size global, matrixed organization.
Location
- Located at Abbott’s headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois
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The base pay for this position is $147,300.00 – $294,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
