Legal Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a forward-thinking legal operations strategy that supports Waters’ growth trajectory and evolving business demands
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable plans by designing and implementing objectives and metrics that demonstrate the legal department’s performance and value as business enablers and risk optimizers
• Analyze and visualize legal department data to help ensure effective and efficient staffing to enable the legal department to scale with business demand
• Manage or direct a team of professionals to provide high-value and high-volume agreements in accordance with established templates and processes
• Transform our legal operations through strategic and expanding use of emerging technologies (including generative AI and advanced legal-tech) and best practices, effective integration with other business applications, and development of scalable processes across the business
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives across workflows, identifying opportunities for optimization while maintaining the highest standards of legal quality
• Oversee e-billing processes, working with Waters’ finance department to provide accurate and up-to-date spend summaries
• Other special projects, such as maintaining up to date trackers for intellectual property registrations, assisting with security and/or privacy audit tracking, drafting internal communications, conducting file-management, leading process and operational standards and improvements that help the business scale, implementing and taking ownership for other legal technology solutions, procuring and analyzing data relevant to the operations of the legal department

Qualification & Requirements

• 6 years of progressive experience in legal operations or related fields of paralegal support, contracts management, strategy and operations, and/or project management in tech company legal teams
• Strong functional Legal knowledge a plus
• Extremely comfortable with technology and familiarity with legal technology programs
• Entrepreneurial mindset with experience building and implementing systems
• Familiarity with data analytics and a desire to take a data-driven approach to decision-making and legal department operations wherever possible
• Project management skills and ability to run complex, multi-stakeholder projects with minimal supervision and direction
• Experience in life, materials, or food science markets is preferred but not a required
• Balances clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to solve problems independently and to deliver accurate, high-quality, commercially astute work product
• Strong communication skills, capable of dealing with a wide range of people and cultures, with a proven ability to establish a high degree of credibility, respect and trust at all levels
• Effective time-planning and organizational skills to prioritize key areas of responsibility, tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong team player who carries a global market perspective and operates with integrity, transparency, and humility
• Acts as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Waters with focus, urgency, and accountability

Benefits

Health and Well-being

• Medical, Dental, and Vision: comprehensive coverage including no-cost preventative care, and cost-sharing for diagnostic and catastrophic care.
• HSAs and Flexible Spending Accounts: save money in taxes on eligible health and child/elder
• Wellness Programs: available to help you with your personal well-being goals, including incentive awards for participating.

Financial

• Disability Protection: programs to provide continuing income if you become sick or injured and are unable to work.
• Life and Accident Insurance: benefits in the event of an accident or death.
• Retirement and Savings: programs like our 401(k) with a generous match to help you save and invest now for retirement.

Work / Life Balance

• Discount, Perk & Voluntary Benefits Marketplace: available to accommodate the needs of our diverse workforce.
• Work/Life Resources: programs to help you achieve and maintain an optimal work/life balance.
• Health Care Help: programs designed to enhance your health care benefits and make life easier.