Specialist, Legal Operations Jobs

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As a global leader in advanced mobility solutions, our outstanding team of legal professionals helps us navigate the continually changing legal and regulatory landscape. In our Office of General Counsel, you’ll be part of an organization that collaborates with outside counsel to operate as a global team and deliver world-class legal, tax and audit services to client groups throughout the company.

Responsibilities

In this position...

• You will play a key role in developing forms, teams, and policies.
• You will be able to work cross functionally across a variety of different teams to achieve different objectives.
• You will be able to work in an environment where you will be presented new, rising challenges on a day to day basis.

What You'll Do...

• Help the legal operations manager to define and drive strategic and operational initiatives with on-time and on-budget results
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including sales, support, service, business development, regulatory, IT, and finance, as well as various business units
• Help enforce processes and policies to manage outside counsel usage and spend
• Assist the legal operations manager with budget matters and optimizing workflows within the legal department
• Assist in identifying and implementing legal department tools to streamline new or existing practices, as well as managing design, rollout, and training for new systems.

Qualifications

Even better, you may have...

• Support and handle a variety of ad hoc projects within the team as they arise
• Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional groups to set objectives and produce results
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and successfully manage multiple deadlines
• Ability to move projects forward by gaining support from stakeholders
• Experience developing forms, processes, and policies
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

New Hire Benefits

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