Manager - Outside Counsel Management, Legal Operations - job 1 of 3

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

The Manager, Outside Counsel Management focuses on programs and business processes designed to maximize the value AbbVie’s outside law firms and legal vendors provide. This role will also oversee the day-to-day operations of the outside counsel management function and interact with legal professionals at all levels at AbbVie to ensure smooth functioning of processes from law firm/vendor selection, through onboarding, matter management and review. 

The ideal candidate will have legal industry experience either in the finance, pricing or legal project management functions of law firms or in legal operations and outside counsel management in a large corporate legal department.  This role requires strong problem-solving and communication skills as well as a customer-service mindset.  The role will work cross-functionally with AbbVie’s legal operations technology, IT and finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day functioning of the outside counsel management team (e.g., manage communications with law firms, resolve issues related to fee agreements, rates, guideline compliance, etc.).
• Monitor and report on legal spend and matter management, including tracking overall department spend levels, performance against budget, matter staffing, etc.
• Manage annual rate review process by overseeing the collection and analysis of rate proposals, and providing recommendations on rate approvals.
• Support the RFP process, managing communications with firms and vendors; collection of information and analysis of proposals
• Support the use of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) by providing data-driven analysis to support AFA negotiations.
• Partner with Legal Ops Innovation team, Finance, IT, and vendors to identify and implement improvements in business processes

• Bachelor’s degree; specific project management or business training/certifications preferred
• 5+ years legal operations experience, or experience in law firm finance, pricing or legal project management
• Strong analytical and problem solving ability; ability to navigate demands of multiple stakeholders and recommend solutions
• Strong communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong project management skills
• Proven ability to explore and understand new technologies and their role in outside counsel and vendor management.
• This role requires three (3) days onsite in our North Chicago, IL offices.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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