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Legal Operations Manager
Responsible for managing legal workflows, coordinating legal and contract matters, and improving legal processes across the business.
Responsibilities
- Act as the first point of contact for legal and contract-related queries from the business.
- Triage requests and determine which can be resolved through templates, playbooks or existing guidance, and which require escalation to external counsel.
- Coordinate with external legal counsel on active matters, including briefing, prioritisation, follow‑up and tracking.
- Help manage legal spend, including matter tracking, invoice review and monthly budget monitoring.
- Maintain a central record of legal matters, risks, key deadlines and status updates.
- Help develop and improve legal intake, approval and escalation processes.
- Support the creation of practical guidance, FAQs, templates and self‑serve materials for routine business matters.
- Embed legal tech, automation tools and contract management systems into day‑to‑day workflows.
- Deliver basic training to internal teams on legal processes.
- Manage the contract lifecycle from request through review, negotiation, approval, signature, storage and renewal.
- Coordinate contract negotiations with internal teams and external counterparties.
- Identify non‑standard terms or risk issues and escalates them to external counsel where necessary.
- Maintain contract trackers, renewal calendars and key obligation registers.
- Ensure contracts are properly approved, signed, stored and easy to retrieve.
- Develop and maintain standard form agreements, clause banks and contracting guidance.
- Monitor turnaround times, common negotiation issues and process bottlenecks.
Qualifications
- Excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing multiple matters and priorities across different business teams.
- Comfortable working with external legal advisers and managing spend.
- Commercially minded and practical in approach.
- Experience in legal operations, contracts management, paralegal work, commercial operations or a similar role.
Desirable Skills
- Drafting, communication and negotiation skills for routine contract matters.
- Understanding of contract processes and common commercial terms.
- Experience with contract management tools, document workflows and legal tech systems.
- Media, content, publishing, advertising or digital business experience.
Benefits
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in‑house learning events
- 4× life assurance
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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Location: Bristol
Job Description:
Legal Operations Manager
Responsible for managing legal workflows, coordinating legal and contract matters, and improving legal processes across the business.
Responsibilities
- Act as the first point of contact for legal and contract-related queries from the business.
- Triage requests and determine which can be resolved through templates, playbooks or existing guidance, and which require escalation to external counsel.
- Coordinate with external legal counsel on active matters, including briefing, prioritisation, follow‑up and tracking.
- Help manage legal spend, including matter tracking, invoice review and monthly budget monitoring.
- Maintain a central record of legal matters, risks, key deadlines and status updates.
- Help develop and improve legal intake, approval and escalation processes.
- Support the creation of practical guidance, FAQs, templates and self‑serve materials for routine business matters.
- Embed legal tech, automation tools and contract management systems into day‑to‑day workflows.
- Deliver basic training to internal teams on legal processes.
- Manage the contract lifecycle from request through review, negotiation, approval, signature, storage and renewal.
- Coordinate contract negotiations with internal teams and external counterparties.
- Identify non‑standard terms or risk issues and escalates them to external counsel where necessary.
- Maintain contract trackers, renewal calendars and key obligation registers.
- Ensure contracts are properly approved, signed, stored and easy to retrieve.
- Develop and maintain standard form agreements, clause banks and contracting guidance.
- Monitor turnaround times, common negotiation issues and process bottlenecks.
Qualifications
- Excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing multiple matters and priorities across different business teams.
- Comfortable working with external legal advisers and managing spend.
- Commercially minded and practical in approach.
- Experience in legal operations, contracts management, paralegal work, commercial operations or a similar role.
Desirable Skills
- Drafting, communication and negotiation skills for routine contract matters.
- Understanding of contract processes and common commercial terms.
- Experience with contract management tools, document workflows and legal tech systems.
- Media, content, publishing, advertising or digital business experience.
Benefits
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in‑house learning events
- 4× life assurance
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
#J-18808-Ljbffr…
Posted: May 21st, 2026