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Job Function:
Legal & Compliance
Job Sub Function:
Law Business Partners
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson's Enterprise Governance & Legal Innovation group within the Global Legal Organization (GLO) is recruiting for a Senior Director, Outside Counsel Management and Strategy.
The Senior Director, Outside Counsel Management & Strategy is a global leadership role responsible for defining and executing Johnson & Johnson’s enterprise strategy for the selection, engagement, management, performance, and financial stewardship of outside counsel.
This leader will design and implement an end-to-end outside counsel operating model, transforming outside counsel management from a primarily transactional and spend-management function into a strategic, data-driven capability. The role will establish the governance, processes, technology, data, and analytics needed to optimize firm selection, pricing, performance, relationships, and allocation of legal work.
The Senior Director will also lead a multidisciplinary team of approximately 6 to 8 professionals responsible for outside counsel and legal spend operations, including budgeting and forecasting, e-billing, rate and vendor management, spend analytics, and Legal Spend Management technology.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead enterprise outside counsel strategy: Develop and execute a multi-year global strategy and operating model governing how outside counsel are selected, engaged, managed, evaluated, and retained. Partner with Legal leadership to align the right providers and delivery models with the complexity, risk, and strategic importance of legal work.
Optimize the law firm portfolio: Design and evolve Johnson & Johnson’s preferred-firm and strategic relationship model. Segment and evaluate firms based on capability, performance, economics, geographic reach, and relationship value, using data to inform future work allocation and portfolio decisions.
Manage strategic law firm relationships: Serve as a senior commercial and operational counterpart to major global, regional, and specialist firms. Lead strategic business reviews and negotiations and establish expectations related to performance, pricing, staffing, technology, innovation, service delivery, and continuous improvement.
Drive performance and advanced analytics: Establish an enterprise outside counsel performance framework, including firm scorecards, attorney feedback, benchmarks, KPIs, and executive dashboards. Connect matter, spend, pricing, staffing, and outcome data to generate actionable insights and measure value beyond cost.
Lead technology and digital transformation: Serve as business owner for technology supporting outside counsel sourcing, spend management, e-billing, relationship management, and performance. Lead implementation and adoption of integrated digital capabilities and identify responsible opportunities to use AI and automation to improve decision-making, productivity, and value.
Advance sourcing and alternative delivery strategies: Establish standards for competitive sourcing, RFPs, alternative fee…