Harbor
Senior Manager, Contracts Lifecycle Management
Remote, United States · Senior
Work authorization requiredDetected 37 days ago
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About the role
- Harbor's Corporate Legal Solutions practice group is the leading provider of legal technology professional services for corporate law departments.
- This world-class team possesses a deep understanding of technology application for optimal client return.
- Our partnerships with leading legal technology providers allow clients to benefit from our product-specific expertise and gain new market perspectives along the way.
Responsibilities
- Leverage subject matter expertise to assess contracting processes & technology to provide objective guidance and recommendations on solutions to implement in support of client system evaluation processes.
- Serve as the lead project manager for implementation projects, including creating and maintaining project schedules and work/staffing plans, managing the project budget and scope, forecasting resourcing, providing routine status updates, scheduling workshops, and managing client billables and invoicing.
- Advise clients on how to best integrate their existing technologies together to enhance their overarching legal operations function; design technology-enabled processes and system integrations to create innovative yet practical solution frameworks.
- Oversee system configuration and testing to ensure solution setup meets design specifications and customer business process goals.
- Map data between any source system(s) and/or data repositories and the new technology solution; support migration and migration validation processes.
- Develop training curriculum and materials, as well as lead end-user and system administration training in partnership with technology providers.
- Develop relationships with vendors and other partners to develop creative offerings.
- Cultivate new relationships at current clients and coach junior staff to become lead contacts.
- Actively develop ideas and contribute to practice growth/evolution and company-wide strategic initiatives.
- Facilitate workshops with client stakeholders to gather, document, and prioritize business and technical requirements, including business process modeling, integration, security, migration, and reporting; provide subject matter expertise on industry best practices and tool capabilities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience in the legal or consulting industry (e.g., in-house legal department, law firm, legal software provider, consulting firm)
- 8+ years of experience in legal technology assessments, requirements gathering, system design, configuration, implementation, testing, and deployment, with proven experience implementing contracting tools.
- 8+ years of experience in a customer facing role delivering projects and overseeing other resources to the completion of their tasks.
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience in the following areas of focus:
- Experience and/or understanding of professional services partnerships and business models
- Experience leading technology implementation projects across workstreams and through all stages of a project lifecycle.
- Proven track record of successful project implementations and development of junior talent.
- Experience independently managing multiple engagements and clients simultaneously.
- Strong organizational skills and an ability to prioritize tasks.
- familiarity with use of Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint as collaboration tools.
- Experience with Agiloft, Ironclad, Malbek, Luminance, Ivo, and similar systems is preferred; this experience should include related data migration and integration workstreams.
- Demonstrated understanding of the AI contract technology landscape, including legal-specific platforms (e.g., Harvey, Legora) and point solutions supporting contract drafting, review, negotiation, obligation management, and associated workflows.
- Four- year degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Science, Economics, Statistics, Accounting, Data & Analytics, and the like, or equivalent combination of experience and education.
Nice to have
- Experience with Agiloft, Ironclad, Malbek, Luminance, Ivo, and similar systems is preferred
- this experience should include related data migration and integration workstreams.
Benefits
- Experience, Education and Other
Company info
- Harbor is the preeminent provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence.
- Our globally integrated team of 900+ strategists, technologists, and specialists navigate alongside our clients - leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments - to provide essential resources and invaluable insights.
- Anchored in a rich heritage of deep knowledge, steadfast relationships, and mutual respect, our unwavering dedication lies in shaping the future of the legal industry and fostering enduring partnerships within our community and ecosystem.
- Harbor is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, national origin, ancestry, age, parental status, disabled status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification, in accordance with applicable law.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Have permanent US work authorization
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