Director, Legal Support Services (Finance)
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is seeking a Director, Legal Support Services to join our in-house North America legal team. This position reports to our North America General Counsel. This position can be based out of any of our North America offices with an option to work remotely from home.
Our legal operations team supports our four Global Business Areas: Mobility, Places, Resilience, and Intelligence. In this leadership role, you will manager a team of four or more professionals who specialize in insurance, licensing (architectural, engineering and construction), proposal disclosures, subpoena responses, legal holds, and other corporate legal support functions. This position is also responsible for understanding the various software systems used across the global legal functions and looking at opportunities to manage and rationalize global systems for efficiency. This is an ideal position for someone with a paralegal background who has grown into a manager/leader and is looking to continue their career as a manager.
Role accountabilities:
In this role, you will primarily be responsible for:
- Managing a highly functional and motivated legal operations team
- Being available to the team for backup/supplementation, answering questions, and providing mentorship and development
- Supporting our North America businesses to meet project and proposal requirements
- Understanding the various legal management systems and tools in place globally and make suggestions for efficiencies and maximizing use on an ongoing basis
- Interfacing with Arcadis' Global Legal Team in the effort to obtain standardization and efficiency across the global business
Qualifications & Experience:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- 8 years of experience in legal operations support including licensing, insurance, corporate maintenance, service of process, and proposal disclosures
- 2 years of supervisory experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- The ability to understand complex issues and explain them clearly
- Willingness to learn and explore new global systems and ways of working
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10 - 12 years of experience
- Expertise in areas specific to the architecture, engineering, and construction industry including professional licensing and insurance
- Experience with claims reporting and management
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $145,000 - $170,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
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