Assistant Director, Legal Transformation & Enablement

Telix Pharmaceuticals (AMER)

About The Position

The Assistant Director, Legal Transformation & Enablement leads Telix Pharmaceuticals’ legal operations, technology enablement, process optimization, and contracting infrastructure. The role serves as a strategic bridge between Legal & Compliance and enterprise functions, translating legal and business requirements into scalable systems, workflows, and data-driven processes. It is the legal function’s transformation lead, combining legal-operations leadership and systems architecture with change management and hands-on commercial contracting and procurement legal capability. The position owns legal technology platform architecture and integrations, including Contract Lifecycle Management, e-billing, and artificial intelligence tools; legal workflows and enablement infrastructure; process-improvement initiatives; vendor management; and departmental metrics and key performance indicator reporting. It supports the legal function’s goal of reducing reliance on external counsel through productivity gains and AI-enabled efficiency, and manages the Legal Operations Specialist, United States. The role also supports contract negotiation and commercial contracting for procurement and operational matters as needed.

Requirements

At least 8 years of combined legal practice and/or legal operations leadership experience.
Strong legal process and technology experience.
People management experience.
Demonstrated experience with Contract Lifecycle Management platform architecture and integrations with enterprise systems such as CRM, enterprise resource planning, e-billing, and matter management.
Experience collaborating with Information Technology teams through the technology development lifecycle, including requirements, design, user acceptance testing, and production rollout, for legal technology solutions.
Demonstrated experience with e-billing systems, AI/legal technology tools, Microsoft 365/SharePoint, and process and change management.
Commitment to excellence, results orientation, creativity and innovation, strong communication, collaboration, resilience, an inclusive mindset, adaptability, ethical behavior, and continuous learning.

Nice To Haves

Prior in-house experience at a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or healthcare company.
Hands-on configuration or implementation experience with at least one Contract Lifecycle Management platform.
Project management certification, such as PMP or Agile/Scrum experience.
Direct experience negotiating or reviewing enterprise-level commercial agreements.
Budgeting and forecasting experience for technology or operations initiatives, including articulating the financial impact of process and technology investments.

Responsibilities

Own the legal front door, intake and routing, matter management, contract playbooks, template libraries, knowledge management, and business self-service tools for Legal & Compliance.
Lead AI-enabled legal workflows and agent design and management, approved prompt libraries, and AI-assisted contract review and drafting with appropriate human oversight and privacy and security controls; identify, test, and deploy AI capabilities to streamline legal operations.
Partner with Information Technology and enterprise technology teams to translate legal operations requirements into system specifications, user stories, workflows, and integration requirements for Contract Lifecycle Management and adjacent legal technology platforms.
Collaborate with Information Technology and vendors through requirements gathering, design, testing and user acceptance testing, and production rollout, ensuring legal technology solutions are timely, within budget, and aligned with legal, risk, and governance standards.
Own legal operations metrics and KPI reporting, including contract cycle time, outside-counsel spend visibility, contracting throughput, self-service adoption, and legal department satisfaction; use results to inform continuous improvement and report to the Group General Counsel.
Implement and manage e-billing, matter taxonomy, outside counsel guidelines, spend reporting, and budget forecasting for legal technology and enablement initiatives to drive outside-counsel spend reduction.
Lead change management and organizational adoption programs for new legal processes and technology, including communications planning, training, stakeholder feedback, and adoption tracking.
Build and maintain scalable contracting infrastructure, including playbooks, escalation matrices, fallback positions, and legal front-door processes for high-volume commercial and procurement contracting; use process-improvement methods to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.
Manage vendor relationships and budgets for legal technology and enablement tools, and develop business cases and return-on-investment models for technology investments.
Manage and develop the Legal Operations Specialist, United States, and coordinate cross-functional legal operations with the Legal Governance & Operations Specialist, Australia.
Partner with Procurement, Information Technology, Finance, Commercial Operations, and business stakeholders to improve contracting throughput, cycle time, and governance.
Work with Finance and the Group General Counsel to maintain the legal budget, metrics, financial discipline, and forecasting.
Support contract negotiation and commercial contracting for procurement and operational matters as needed.
Own the legal enablement strategy, including playbooks, templates, intake and routing, knowledge management, systems administration, self-service tools, and cross-functional process improvement.
Define adoption benchmarks, stakeholder feedback loops, and change-management plans.