Director, Legal Operations

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About the Role

The Director Legal Operations & Finance is a strategic leader responsible for driving operational excellence financial discipline and technology enablement across the global legal function. This role partners closely with the General Counsel legal leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure efficient cost-effective and scalable delivery of legal services aligned with business priorities.

We are seeking a collaborative strategic leader with strong operational financial and technology acumen. The ideal candidate has experience building scaling or transforming Legal Operations or comparable business operations functions and can translate strategy into sustainable governance processes and capabilities. The candidate understands that the Legal Department must manage risk while enabling practical timely business decisions.

About You

Accountability: You will own the legal departments budget management forecasting and financial reporting processes and you will lead the strategy and execution of legal technology initiatives including AI implementation enterprise reporting and digital transformation to ensure efficient cost-effective and scalable delivery of legal services aligned with business priorities.

Collaboration: You build trusted practical partnerships across the enterprise and are comfortable working with diverse stakeholders and viewpoints. Whether you are partnering with Finance on budgeting and forecasting coordinating with IT and Digital teams on legal technology solutions working with Procurement on vendor management or aligning with Compliance and Cybersecurity on e-discovery and data preservation you bring a calm solutions-oriented approach and communicate clearly with credibility.

Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic environment and can shift seamlessly between longer-horizon strategic initiatives such as technology roadmap development process optimization and operating model design and time-sensitive operational demands such as e-discovery deadlines budget close cycles and urgent matter intake. You exercise strong judgment stay organized under pressure and bring a professional polished approach when managing competing priorities across a fast-paced global organization.

Employee Champion: You are an experienced people leader who develops legal operations professionals and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence. You set clear expectations delegate effectively and ensure high-quality execution across legal operations e-discovery and technology workstreams. You lead change management and adoption efforts for new tools and processes and you coordinate and manage outside counsel and vendors efficiently including scoping engagements establishing billing guidelines and managing costs.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Partner with the General Counsel and legal leadership to set priorities and drive execution against departmental goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by providing insights and practical recommendations to support leadership decisions.
• Translate strategy into actionable plans with clear milestones accountability and measurable outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery strengthen value and reduce outside legal spend.

Legal Financial Management & Analytics:

• Act as department liaison partnering with Finance for budgeting forecasting month-end close and financial reporting
• Oversee invoice lifecycle management ensuring compliance and accuracy

Outside Counsel & Vendor Management:

• Support Legal Department leaders and other stakeholders in outside counsel and vendor management initiatives
• Manage outside counsel billing and onboarding.
• Establish billing guidelines and engagement standards
• Oversee coordination Legal Settlement payments with payroll and accounts payable
• Work with procurement in establishing POs with vendors

E-Discovery & Legal Data Management:

• Oversee the global e-discovery function ensuring efficient defensible and cost-effective management of electronically stored information (ESI) for litigation investigations and regulatory matters.
• Manage the end-to-end e-discovery lifecycle (legal hold preservation collection review production disposition).
• Administer the legal hold program ensuring timely issuance tracking and compliance.
• Manage e-discovery tools and vendors; leverage analytics AI and automation to improve quality and reduce cost.
• Partner with Legal IT Cybersecurity and Compliance on data preservation incident response and investigations.

Process Improvement & Operational Excellence:

• Work with legal functions to standardize and improve processes
• Identify inefficiencies and implement scalable solutions
• SharePoint site administration

Legal Technology & Digital Transformation:

• Develop and execute legal operations strategy including process optimization technology roadmap AI implementation and enterprise reporting.
• Oversee selection implementation and administration of legal technology (matter management e-billing automated workflows document management).
• Manage integrations and system enhancements
• Partner with Legal IT Digital and business stakeholders to evaluate implement and govern legal technology solutions.
• Oversee matter lifecycle management: intake tracking reporting taxonomy and closeout.
• Lead change management training and adoption for new tools and workflows.
• Drive adoption of tools and processes that improve productivity transparency reporting and decision-making.

Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead mentor and develop a team of legal operations professionals fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Finance Procurement IT and Compliance teams to ensure alignment on cross-functional initiatives
• Define performance metrics and foster continuous improvement
• Support change management initiatives including those arising from corporate transactions or organizational restructurings.

Communications & Administration:

• Support change management and communication efforts associated with new processes technologies governance structures and operating models.
• Promote best practices and help develop department guidelines policies training materials playbooks and self-service resources.
• Support cross-functional coordination and ensure follow-through on key operational decisions and initiatives.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Lead or support additional projects and responsibilities as assigned by the General Counsel.
• Stay current on developments in legal operations legal technology and related industry trends to help shape continuous improvement

Basic Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Finance Legal Studies or a related field.
• 10 years of experience in legal operations legal project management or a related function with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Experience managing direct reports consultants contractors and cross-functional project teams.
• Strong understanding of in-house legal department operations including matter management contract workflows legal spend reporting and stakeholder service models.
• Deep expertise in e-discovery tools and processes (e.g. Relativity legal hold platforms) and cloud data environments (e.g. M365)
• Strong working knowledge of e-discovery regulations and data privacy requirements (e.g. FRCP cross-border data considerations)
• Demonstrated experience managing legal department budgets.
• Experience with outside counsel management including RFPs rate negotiations and performance metrics.
• Experience implementing administering or optimizing legal technology platforms including matter management e-billing contract lifecycle management legal intake document management or knowledge management systems and Relativity
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and drive process improvement in complex matrixed organizations.
• Excellent analytical communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) certification or active participation.
• Familiarity with data analytics AI/ML applications in legal and emerging legal
• Experience in a multinational organization.

Competencies:

• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans.
• Data-driven decision-making and financial acumen.
• Strong vendor and relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced global environment.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive high-performance team culture.

Additional Compensation: KBR may offer bonuses commissions or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus relocation benefits short term incentives long term incentives or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

Benefits: KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include a 401K plan with company match medical dental vision life insurance AD&D flexible spending account disability paid time off or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin veteran status genetic information union status and/or beliefs or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.