Elevate
Legal Operations Associate
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We are seeking an experienced Legal Operations Professional to join an interim legal team supporting the UK and EMEA business of a leading global consumer brand.
This is a particularly exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys building structure, improving processes, and helping legal teams operate more efficiently. You will play a key role in establishing foundational legal operations processes and infrastructure during a period of significant transformation.
The role will work closely with legal and business stakeholders to introduce greater consistency, visibility, and efficiency across the legal function.
Location: London
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 2–3 days per week onsite
Contract: September 2026 – December 2026, with potential extension into early 2027
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement processes for legal intake, matter management, and request tracking.
- Establish and improve outside counsel engagement and management processes.
- Support law firm intake, matter opening, and ongoing matter tracking.
- Develop processes for legal invoice management and payment workflows.
- Support the creation and improvement of contracting and legal support workflows.
- Help develop standardised templates, playbooks, and process documentation.
- Establish reporting and analytics to provide greater visibility of legal activity and workload.
- Capture and analyse data around legal requests, matter types, workload, and process efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and improve how legal services are delivered to the business.
- Work with legal and business stakeholders to introduce practical, user-friendly processes and self-service resources.
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We are looking for someone with strong Legal Operations, Legal Project Management, or legal function transformation experience.
You will ideally have:
- Experience working within a legal team, legal operations function, or professional services environment.
- Practical experience implementing or improving legal processes and workflows.
- Experience with matter management, outside counsel management, legal intake, or legal spend processes.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Experience developing reporting, metrics, and dashboards to improve visibility across a legal function.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- A proactive, hands-on approach and the ability to work independently.
- The ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment and build relationships quickly.
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