Description
My top client, a major investment bank located in Midtown Manhattan is looking to bring on a Non-IT Project Manager into their COO Legal Team. This particular candidate will be tasked with reducing legal vendor spending through 6 workstreams. A soucring and procuremnt background is a must.This will be an initial 12 month contract that the hiring manager will be looking to extend. Please respond back with the latest version of your resume if you feel you are a good fit.
Main Function
The Legal Commercial Management program will deliver an enduring reduction in external legal spend and improved service provision across the bank through the implementation of a cost effective, sustainable operating model to ensure controlled and appropriate buying decisions and deeper key supplier relationships across the Legal department globally.
The program consists of 6 workstreams that will deliver a reduction in total legal vendor spend - spend held both in front office budgets and directly in Legal.
The successful role holder will be the project lead in the US and will represent the Barclays Americas businesses (the corporate and investment bank, credit card company and the wealth management group) as part of the global project team.
The job will involve managing various commercial management initiatives in the US for the Legal Department, optimizing Barclays' spend with external law firms and other vendors.
Main Duties
The Barclays 2014 Panel Refresh (60% of the role): Coordinating and executing the refresh of our list of approved law firms.
- Exercise overall responsibility for the successful delivery of the US and Americas elements of the project to plan, budget and agreed quality and governance standards.
- Support US and Americas stakeholders through the RFI/ RFP process.
- Help coordinate a cross functional project team in the US (providing guidance to stakeholders and representatives from multiple Legal teams, the Sourcing department, IT, Audit) and represent the Americas in the global project team.
- Ensure that technical, audit, risk and other standards and compliance requirements are met and that the project governance framework is comprehensively defined and firmly embedded.
Other Commercial Initiatives (40% of the role); Supporting other program workstreams to improve efficiency and optimize the bank's external legal spend, e.g.,
- Support requirements definition for price optimisation, invoice validation and MI improvement solutions.
- Support US based teams in the segmentation of specific legal work and the identification of appropriate providers.
- Work with local IT teams and help manage the implementation of any required technology solutions.
- Potentially lead and develop a program to reduce spend on discovery services.
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