Legal Operations Coordinator

The base salary range for this position is $75,600 to $113,400. The position may be eligible for a role-specific discretionary bonus, relocation assistance, and/or other compensation elements. We continuously review market data and may adjust salary ranges as needed in the future. Actual compensation will be based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement savings opportunities, paid time off, paid holidays, disability and life insurance benefits, and other company-sponsored benefits. For additional information regarding our benefits and Total Rewards offerings, please  .

Join Boehringer as a Legal Operations Coordinator and help strengthen the systems, processes, and data that support effective outside counsel management for the Legal Department across the United States.

• Serve as a key partner to Legal, Finance, Information Technology, and External Legal Service Providers by supporting matter management, e-billing, reporting, and operational controls.
• This Ridgefield, CT based role offers the opportunity to improve legal service delivery, optimize the Preferred Partner Network, and turn matter and spend data into practical business insights.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies´ success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance.

Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim´s high regard for our employees

• Coordinates all U.S. Legal Department activities related to the Matter Management and eBilling System and related outside counsel billing and invoicing, including serving as a first line approver of U.S. Legal bills, providing functional support for the system, managing security parameters, coordinating the on-boarding and training of new users and ongoing training of existing users, ensuring system integrity and coordinating all contacts with and interaction with IT.
• Manages Preferred Provider Network (PPN) of outside counsel law firms and renewal of such network; handles issues and resolves disputes that arise with respect to PPN, optimizes value added services of the PPN and ensures tracking and coordinates utilization of such services; liaison between different legal functions and legal operations function as it relates to outside counsel management; leads projects relating to improving productivity, process improvement and cost optimization relating to Legal Department outside counsel management;
  
  assists Legal Department in identifying appropriate outside counsel and vendors.
• Prepares reports for General Counsel, Corporate Legal, Finance and others. Such reports include spend and budget analyses, as well as matter update reports.
• Establishes and updates eBilling system controls to ensure accurate data into system and accurate reporting out of system.
• Develops processes for outside counsel interface with the Legal Department eBilling system (including ensuring security processes). Coordinates with outside counsel to ensure accurate and up-to-date data, compliance with outside counsel requirements, and e-billing processes. Ensures that Preferred Partner Agreement requirements are integrated into system to the maximum extent…