Manager, Legal Operations

🔥 5 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Liquidia Corporation

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 $75M Post IPO equity on 2024-02

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Liquidia is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing inhaled therapies for rare cardiopulmonary diseases, particularly pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD). The company leverages its proprietary PRINT® particle engineering technology to create proprietary formulations and delivery methods aimed at improving efficacy, tolerability, and convenience of inhaled medicines; its pipeline includes inhaled treprostinil (commercial product) and clinical-stage candidates such as L606. Liquidia emphasizes patient support, clinical development, and advancing therapies for improved respiratory outcomes.

📋 Description

• Partner with the General Counsel to manage departmental priorities, initiatives, and operational objectives aligned with Liquidia's corporate strategy and growth plans. • Develop and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and reporting metrics to measure legal department performance and service delivery. • Identify and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency, reduce risk, and improve stakeholder experience. • Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, templates, playbooks, and workflow documentation. • Manage departmental projects and cross-functional initiatives. • Lead implementation, optimization, and administration of legal and compliance technology solutions, including CLM, document management, matter management, and compliance systems. • Establish centralized repositories and knowledge management resources. • Evaluate emerging legal technology and AI-enabled solutions. • Drive adoption of legal technology tools through training, communications, change management, and ongoing support. • Manage relationships with outside counsel billing departments and legal service providers. • Oversee billing guidelines, spend management, and vendor performance metrics. • Monitor legal expenditures and improve cost efficiency. • Partner with Finance to develop, manage, and track the Legal and Compliance departmental budget. • Monitor spend against forecasts and provide reports, analyses, and recommendations. • Manage invoice review and approval processes and support annual budgeting and financial planning. • Support contract lifecycle management, including intake, tracking, execution, storage, obligations management, and reporting. • Develop tools and processes for contract visibility, obligations, renewals, and risks. • Optimize contracting workflows and turnaround times with internal stakeholders. • Maintain corporate insurance policy records and assist with renewals. • Coordinate insurance renewal and claims documentation. • Establish procedures for identifying, documenting, and escalating potential claims or risk events. • Track claims and risk mitigation activities through resolution. • Perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required. • 7+ years of experience in legal operations, corporate legal support, compliance operations, contract management, paralegal functions, or related business operations roles. • Demonstrated experience implementing operational improvements, legal technologies, and scalable business processes. • Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and outside counsel expenditures. • Strong analytical, organizational, project management, and communication skills. • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a cross-functional, dynamic and highly collaborative environment. • Proficiency with legal technology platforms, Microsoft 365 applications, and reporting tools. • Preferred: Experience supporting an in-house legal department within the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or healthcare industry. • Preferred: Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM), matter management, billing by outside counsel, and compliance systems. • Preferred: Certification in legal operations, project management, compliance, or process improvement methodologies.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability (STD) • Long-term disability (LTD) • 401(k) Savings Retirement Plan • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)