Sr Manager, Legal Operations

Role: Senior Manager, Legal Operations at Gilead, responsible for managing outside counsel relationships, legal billing operations, and spend strategies within a global pharmaceutical context. Core duties include overseeing a law firm panel, negotiating rates and AFAs, enforcing billing compliance, and optimizing legal spend through analytics and governance. Additional responsibilities involve supporting legal budgeting, enhancing e-billing workflows via platforms like TeamConnect, and developing dashboards and KPIs for legal spend analysis. Qualifications: minimum 7-8 years’ experience in legal operations, legal finance, or in-house legal billing, with expertise in law firm negotiations, AFA structuring, and e-billing platforms; proficiency in market rate benchmarking; strong cross-functional collaboration skills. Preferred: experience in a large, complex regulated industry such as pharma or biotech. The role reports to the Senior Director, Legal Technology & Operations, based in Foster City, CA. This individual contributor role emphasizes strategic vendor management, compliance enforcement, and data-driven decision-making to support Gilead’s legal functions and cost-efficiency goals.