Lenovo

Lenovo seeks a Legal Spend Vendor Manager to join its growing Legal Operations Team. The Legal Spend Manager will play a critical role in supporting Lenovo’s Legal Department and how employees receive Legal Services. Specifically, helping Legal establish a foundation for strategic partnering, enhanced accountability, cost-control, and greater alignment with legal business objectives for work performed by outside counsel.

Job Responsibilities (Essential functions and duties): ·

• Total cost improvement for the Legal Department’s spend
• Create reporting program to analyze and manage legal / service vendor / firm spend, forecast, actuals, accruals, provide market rate comparisons
• Help Create and Execute a Firm Panel as well as Alternative Fee Arrangement ("AFA") programs to ensure Lenovo is getting the best return on investment in legal services
• Support and Lead RFPs with Counsel to determine the right law firms on matters
• Manage Outside Counsel Performance Reviews
• Consult and track adherence on Outside Counsel Guidelines
• Identification, qualification, and selection of new vendors and law firms
• Facilitate Outside Counsel Summit Meetings for Lenovo and Strategic (Panel) Partners to discuss relationship status and priorities
• Help Legal Teams review software investments, understand legal tech market and tools, ensure Legal has research available on the technical trade tools available to enable procurement to support our RFP needs.

Basic Job Requirements:

Prior work experience:

• Vendor Negotiations 8+ Years
• Legal Operations Spend Management Experience including AFA management, 2+ Years o Support of legal billing payment processes, 1-3 years
• Ariba or vendor management systems experience, 2+ years
• RFP Project Management Experience, 2+ Years · Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Competencies (KSAC’s)
• Negotiation skills o Excel capabilities (Spreadsheet tracking, pivot tables, data analysis)
• Process Flow charts and word documentation for processes
• Project coordination - task planning
• Demonstrated ability to research, understand software and systems quickly
• Process Documentation and Process Improvement Capabilities
• Process Improvement Mindset
   

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree
 

Travel Requirements (expected % travel):

o Less than 10%

Preferred Requirements:

• Legal Vendor and Firm Management Experience (2-5 years)
• Law Firm Operations Experience (2-5 years)
• Previous use of project management tools (MS Project, Smartsheet, MS task planner) and familiarity with scrum and agile project methodologies