Legal Operations Manager

About the Role

The Legal Operations Manager will support the Group Chief Legal & Compliance Officer in managing the execution of legal, risk and compliance projects across the Group.

The role will coordinate priorities, monitor timelines and deliverables, and support LRC team members who are leading projects.

The Legal Operations Manager will also ensure that matters are properly prepared for the Group Chief Legal & Compliance Officer's review, decision and further instructions.

This is a coordination and execution role. Substantive legal, risk and compliance responsibilities will remain with the relevant functional leads.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate legal, risk and compliance projects across the Group.
• Maintain project plans, timelines, action trackers and status reports.
• Ensure LRC team members adhere to agreed timelines and instructions.
• Support team members leading projects by coordinating workstreams, organising inputs and assisting with deliverables. This may include doing some work relating to the projects or work streams.
• Follow up on outstanding actions, approvals and dependencies.
• Organise reports, submissions, policies, agreements and other materials before they are presented to the Group Chief Legal & Compliance Officer.
• Prepare concise briefings setting out key issues, decisions required and recommended next steps.
• Track and implement instructions issued by the Group Chief Legal & Compliance Officer.
• Coordinate with business teams, subsidiaries, external counsel and advisers.
• Identify and promptly escalate delays, resource constraints and material risks.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality, document control and need-to-know access restrictions.
• Support improvements to LRC processes, reporting and workflows.

Job Requirements

• Degree in law, professional legal qualification or other substantial legal education.
• Approximately three to six years of relevant experience in legal practice, an in-house legal team, legal operations, compliance, risk or project management.
• Strong project management, drafting and organisational skills.
• Able to understand legal and regulatory issues and convert them into clear actions and deliverables.
• Confident coordinating colleagues across different functions, entities and jurisdictions.
• Able to exercise sound judgment and handle privileged, confidential and commercially sensitive information.
• Experience working directly with senior management would be advantageous.