Assistant Director, Legal Transformation & Enablement

Overview

This role leads legal transformation and enablement for the organization’s Legal & Compliance function. The position serves as a strategic bridge between Legal & Compliance and enterprise stakeholders, translating legal and business requirements into scalable systems, workflows, and data-driven processes that enable legal to operate at scale while reducing reliance on external counsel.

Key focus areas include legal operations, technology enablement, process optimization, contracting infrastructure, and AI-enabled workflow development—supporting the international rollout of an approved prostate cancer imaging agent and advancing a portfolio of late clinical-stage products.

Responsibilities

• Own the legal front door, including intake/routing, matter management, contract playbooks, template libraries, knowledge management, and business self-service tools for Legal & Compliance.
• Lead AI-enabled legal workflows, agent design and management, approved prompt libraries, and AI-assisted contract review/drafting with appropriate human oversight and privacy/security controls.
• Proactively identify, test, and deploy new AI capabilities to streamline legal operations.
• Partner with Information Technology and enterprise technology teams to translate legal operations requirements into system specifications, user stories, workflows, and integration requirements for Contract Lifecycle Management and adjacent legal technology platforms (including e-billing, matter management, and CRM/enterprise resource planning integrations).
• Collaborate with Information Technology and vendors across the technology delivery lifecycle (requirements gathering, design, testing/user acceptance testing, and production rollout) to deliver legal technology solutions on time, within budget, and aligned with legal, risk, and governance standards.
• Own and mature department legal operations metrics and KPI reporting, including:
  • contract cycle-time
  • outside-counsel spend visibility
  • contracting throughput
  • self-service adoption
  • legal department satisfaction metrics
• Implement and manage e-billing, matter taxonomy, outside counsel guidelines, spend reporting, and budget forecasting for legal technology and enablement initiatives to drive measurable outside counsel spend reduction.
• Lead structured change management and organizational adoption programs for new legal processes and technology, including communications planning, targeted training, stakeholder feedback loops, and adoption tracking.
• Build and maintain scalable contracting infrastructure, including playbooks, escalation matrices, fallback positions, and legal front-door processes for high-volume commercial and procurement contracting.
• Apply structured process-improvement methodology to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.
• Manage vendor relationships and budgets for legal technology and enablement tools (including Contract Lifecycle Management, e-billing, AI platforms, and related services), and develop business cases/ROI models for technology investments proportionate to a lean legal function.
• Manage and develop the Legal Operations Specialist, United States, and coordinate with the Legal Governance & Operations Specialist, Australia (reporting to Patent & Legal Enablement Manager) on cross-functional legal operations.
• Partner with Procurement, Information Technology, Finance, Commercial Operations, and business stakeholders to improve contracting throughput, cycle-time, and governance.
• Work closely with Finance and Group General Counsel to maintain legal budget with strong metrics, financial discipline, and forecasting.
• Support contract negotiation and commercial contracting for procurement and operational matters as needed, maintaining practitioner-level legal skills alongside operational leadership.
• Own legal enablement strategy, including playbooks, templates, intake/routing, knowledge management, systems administration, self-service tools, and cross-functional process improvement.
• Define adoption benchmarks, stakeholder feedback loops, and change-management plans.

Requirements

• 8+ years of combined legal practice and/or legal operations leadership experience; strong legal process and technology experience required.
• Prior in-house experience at a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or healthcare company strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with Contract Lifecycle Management platform architecture and integrations with enterprise systems (e.g., CRM/Salesforce-type platforms, enterprise resource planning, e-billing, matter management).
• Hands-on configuration or implementation experience with at least one Contract Lifecycle Management platform preferred.
• Experience collaborating with Information Technology teams through the full software/technology development lifecycle (requirements, design, user acceptance testing, production rollout) for legal technology solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with e-billing systems, AI/legal technology tools, Microsoft 365/SharePoint, and process/change management.
• People management experience required.
• Project management certification (PMP, Agile/Scrum) or experience a plus.
• Some direct experience negotiating or reviewing enterprise-level commercial agreements preferred, to maintain credibility as a subject-matter resource for the legal team (secondary to the role’s primary transformation and enablement mandate).
• Budget/forecasting experience for technology or operations initiatives preferred, including ability to articulate financial impact of process and technology investments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with outside counsel spend reduction strategies and contracting throughput improvements.
• Experience building legal playbooks, template libraries, and self-service intake/routing models.
• Experience developing legal technology ROI models tied to measurable productivity gains and adoption outcomes.

Compensation & Benefits

The organization offers:

• Competitive salaries
• Annual performance-based bonuses
• Equity-based incentive program
• Generous vacation
• Paid wellness days
• Support for learning and development

Location

Hybrid and remote employees are located all around the world. The role manages the Legal Operations Specialist, United States, and includes cross-functional coordination with Legal Governance & Operations Specialist, Australia.