Job Opening: Agoda
Role: Legal Project Manager
Location: Bangkok
PQE: 5-8 years
Requirements:
- Support the General Counsel, Legal Leadership team and the Legal Department as a whole with strategic planning for the function: supporting by identifying, articulating and mapping strategic goals and objectives, aligning with different functions within the business, and tracking against them throughout the year, demonstrating ownership by holding the leadership team accountable for achieving them
- Support different processes insofar as they impact the Legal Operations;
- Help to raise the profile of the Legal Operations within Agoda and improve communication initiatives between the team and the wider Agoda business. This includes understanding how the Legal Operations can continue to align as closely as possible with the business, and partner seamlessly with others;
- Keep thorough, organized and accessible records relating to vendor management, budget/spend and travel and expenses;
- Remain aware of legal operations industry trends, and identify opportunities to improve processes, share best practices, develop playbooks, training and improve efficiency with the Legal Department;
- Proactively seek out opportunities to improve and enhance the legal/admin process, documentation and systems; and
- Support ad hoc requests for the Legal Department
Qualifications:
- Experience in having worked in an in-house legal environment within a legal operations team;
- 5 – 8 years’ experience as a legal operations manager, or comparable legal administration and/or management or lawyer (preferably in-house);
- 3 years’ recognized people management experience;
- Ability to clearly, fluently and effectively speak and write in English;
- Experience utilizing data and metrics, as well as superior skills presenting them in different formats like graphs, tables, trends or PowerPoint;
- Ability to manage, coach and develop in a culturally diverse team;
- Excellent organizational skills, demonstrable ownership and accountability with the ability to delegate effectively and to manage projects in a fast-paced environment;
- Ability to manage a budget and forecasting; and
- Desire to innovate and drive change: experiment and measure
- Experience working in APAC and/or other highly diverse and multi-cultural environments;
- Superior organizational skills, extraordinary attention to detail, and a mindset that processes can always be improved;
- Experience of using tools to measure and analyze data; and
- A passion for legal operations (and enjoying working closely with a variety of legal professionals)
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