Business Operations Manager

🔥 17 hours ago

🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Business Operations

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Sterlington

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51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

⚖️ Legal

Finance • Enterprise • Legal

Sterlington is an international law firm providing expertise in complex corporate, litigation, and transactional matters. Located in One World Trade Center, New York City, the firm offers strategic legal advice with a focus on financial flexibility and innovation. Sterlington combines a customized approach with high-caliber, partner-driven service, drawing on attorneys from top global law firms, law schools, and senior roles in government and corporate settings. The firm emphasizes innovative methods to tackle sophisticated business and legal challenges for clients worldwide.

📋 Description

• Drive continuous improvement by refining workflows for greater efficiency and scalability, integrating AI tools to enhance tracking, summarization, briefing preparation and internal coordination • Own the inbound flow of partner requests, firm issues and external approaches; decide what reaches the Head of Firm Management, what is redirected, and what is closed out • Run the cadence of firm leadership, including management committee preparation, planning cycles, leadership meetings and reviews • Translate planning and reporting cycles into a working rhythm for the portfolio and design missing processes • Prepare concise, decision-ready briefings, committee papers and status summaries • Coordinate across partners, senior lawyers, business services and external parties as the primary liaison on the Head of Firm Management's behalf • Drive follow-through, accountability and timely escalation • Take initiatives end to end and report on them • Anticipate gaps, misalignments and potential delays, resolving them before they surface

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in business operations, chief of staff, strategy or operations roles working directly to a senior leader, with the authority to act rather than to relay • A track record of creating a way of working rather than inheriting one, inside someone else's framework rather than around it • Judgment you can explain: a method for deciding on another person's behalf, including declining requests from senior people while keeping the relationship intact • Professional services, law firm or equivalent complex stakeholder environment is a strong plus • Native or full professional English fluency required • Structured, systems-oriented mindset: you introduce clarity without over-engineering • Discretion and composure; you will hold the firm's most sensitive information

🏖️ Benefits

• Diverse and inclusive environment • Opportunity to work with world-class talent • Unique perspectives valued • Opportunity for every individual to thrive

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