PayPal Legal Project Manager 

Kenya, Kitui County 

573342028

The Legal Operations team enables the legal department by providing strategic planning, financial management, process optimization, outside counsel management, and technology expertise. You will report to the Senior Manager of Legal Operations, responsible for overseeing outside counsel management and legal project management.

Job Description:

Your day to day:

• Manage assigned matters to maximize efficiency, with a focus on planning, monitoring, and reporting

• Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost control

• Help build and enhance the company’s legal project management efforts, partnering with internal stakeholders to define and implement LPM best practices

• Serve as a trusted matter operations advisor to each matter leader

• Coordinate RFPs for priority matters, including working with legal team members to design, build, launch, review, and award RFPs

• Drive collection of matter data and deliver recurring updates to legal leaders

• Build and maintain legal project management guidelines, trainings, and playbooks to support the Legal Department

• Proactively seek ways to improve current processes to maximize productivity, workflow, and efficiency in all aspects of the LPM function

• Assist eBilling team with outside counsel invoice review for matter compliance and work performed

• Provide project support, reporting, and analysis as requested in relation to outside counsel management and legal operations

What do you need to bring:

• 5+ years of work experience in legal project management; experience in a law firm or large in-house legal team preferred

• PMP or similar project management experience preferred

• High level of professionalism, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills; comfortable dealing with all levels in the organization and communicating regularly with senior leaders on difficult topics

• Bias for action and proactive, on-time delivery; takes ownership of an issue once aware of it, going the extra mile to resolve problems that may fall outside your area of expertise

• Always seeking ways to improve/enhance processes, find efficiencies, and think outside the box

• Successfully handle assignments with minimal supervision

• Technology-savvy; proficient in all Microsoft Office applications with strong Excel and analytical skills required; Power BI, and reporting experience preferred

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$64000 to $156750

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