Sr. Manager, Contracts & Legal Operations
Cranberry, PAFull-timePosted 6 days agoStill listed 4 days ago
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The Sr. Manager, Contracts & Legal Operations leads the Legal Department’s operational efficiency, financial management, contract administration, and strategic initiatives. The role oversees legal technology, contract lifecycle management, process improvement, and cross-functional initiatives, while supervising contracting personnel and improving legal service delivery. It also coordinates with Finance, Procurement, IT, business stakeholders, vendors, and Legal counsel.
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Job Summary
Lead and oversee the Legal Department’s operational efficiency, financial management, contract administration, and strategic initiatives, ensure alignment with Giant Eagle’s broader organizational objectives. Provide leadership and oversight of legal technology, contract lifecycle management, process improvement, and cross-functional initiatives, while supervising contracting personnel and driving continuous improvement in legal service delivery. Job Description
- Experience Required: 5 to 10 years; 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible experience in legal operations, contract management, corporate operations, procurement or a related field, including experience leading cross-functional initiatives, implementing process improvements, managing legal technology solutions and supervising or directing the work of others.
- Education Required: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Legal Studies, Finance or related field
Job Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee Legal Department operations, including the development and implementation of policies, procedures, workflows, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and legal service delivery.
- Lead the implementation , management and optimization of legal technology solutions, including CLM, matter management, e-billing, workflow automation and reporting capabilities.
- Oversee contract management operations, including contract intake, drafting negotiation, review, execution, recordkeeping, and ongoing contract administration, with attorney oversight as appropriate.
- Supervise the Contracts Specialist, including assigning and prioritizing work, providing coaching and performance feedback, monitoring deliverables, and overseeing timely and effective contract management services.
- Oversee outside counsel spend analysis, billing processes, and financial reporting in coordination with Finance; identify cost-saving opportunities and provide data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Lead and coordinate the adoption and integration of approved AI solution s and CLM capabilities to enhance contract analysis, drafting reporting, compliance monitoring, and operational efficiency.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives involving Legal, Finance, Procurement, IT and business stakeholders, managing project milestones, resources and deliverables to support organizational objectives.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of contract playbooks, templates, reporting dashboards, and related standards to support consistency, data governance and compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
- Oversee contract risk analysis, obligation tracking, amendments, renewals, and related contractual matters, providing mitigation recommendations and guidance to business stakeholders in coordination with Legal counsel.
- Develop and maintain strategic relationships with vendors, internal clients and business stakeholders; oversee contract reporting, performance metrics.
How this job compares
Set against the 414 open Legal Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$105–142K/yr261 salary ranges
- US median$27–36/hr31 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 414 open Legal Operations jobs across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Legal Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (324 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 106 of the 414 open Legal Operations jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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