Director, Legal Support Services

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Director of Legal Support Services to join our inhouse North America legal team. This position reports to our North America General Counsel. This position can be based out of any of our North America offices with an option to work remotely from home.

Our legal operations team supports our four Global Business Areas: Mobility Places Resilience and Intelligence. In this leadership role you will manager a team of three or more professionals who specialize in licensing (architectural engineering and construction) proposal disclosures subpoena responses legal holds bonds and other corporate legal support functions. This position is also responsible for understanding the various software systems used across the Arcadis Global Legal Team and looking at opportunities to manage and rationalize systems for efficiency. This is an ideal position for someone with a paralegal background who has grown into a manager/leader and is looking to continue their career as a manager.

Role accountabilities:

In this role you will primarily be responsible for:

• Managing a highly functional and motivated legal operations team
• Being available to the team for backup/supplementation answering questions and providing mentorship and development
• Supporting our North America businesses to meet project and proposal requirements
• Understanding the various legal management systems and tools in place globally and make suggestions for efficiencies and maximizing use on an ongoing basis
• Interfacing with Arcadis Global Legal Team in the effort to obtain standardization and efficiency across the global business

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree
• 8 years of experience in legal operations support including licensing corporate maintenance service of process and proposal disclosures
• 2 years of supervisory experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• The ability to understand complex issues and explain them clearly
• Willingness to learn and explore new global systems and ways of working

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 12 years of experience
• Expertise in areas specific to the architecture engineering and construction industry including professional licensing and insurance
• Experience with claims reporting and management

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skillsbased approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $145000 $170000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.

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