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Raleigh, NC · On-site +1

$123K - $167K/yr

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Raleigh, NC · On-site +1

$135K - $184K/yr

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Senior Legal Counsel

Raleigh, NC · On-site

$135K - $184K/yr

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will lead complex commercial negotiations, provide guidance on ... Champion legal operations by streamlining processes, adopting AI-enabled legal technologies, and ...

The Senior Manager, Legal Operations will focus on achieving these objectives through implementing and managing legal systems and technology, including existing and new legal-specific platforms, and ...

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How much do senior legal operations jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 10, 2026, the average yearly pay for senior legal operations in the United States is $98,723.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $73,000.00 and $121,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are Senior Legal Operations professionals?

Senior Legal Operations professionals are experienced specialists who oversee and optimize the business and administrative aspects of a legal department. They focus on streamlining processes, managing budgets, implementing legal technology, and improving overall efficiency. Their role often includes project management, vendor management, data analysis, and supporting legal teams in delivering high-quality services. By doing so, they help legal departments function more effectively and align with organizational goals.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Senior Legal Operations professional, and why are they important?

To excel as a Senior Legal Operations professional, you need a strong background in legal processes, project management, and financial acumen, often supported by a bachelor's degree and experience in legal operations or law. Familiarity with legal technology platforms (such as contract management systems, e-billing, and document management tools) and certifications like CLOC or Lean Six Sigma are highly valuable. Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and change management skills help drive team effectiveness and foster cross-department collaboration. These abilities ensure efficient legal service delivery, cost control, and the successful alignment of legal operations with organizational goals.

How does a Senior Legal Operations professional typically collaborate with other departments within an organization?

Senior Legal Operations professionals regularly partner with departments such as IT, Finance, Procurement, and HR to streamline processes and ensure that legal services are delivered efficiently. This role often involves cross-functional meetings to align legal technology initiatives, manage budgets, oversee vendor contracts, and support compliance efforts. By fostering strong relationships across departments, Senior Legal Operations professionals help bridge gaps between legal and business teams, ensuring that organizational goals are met while mitigating risk.

What is the difference between Senior Legal Operations vs Legal Project Manager?

AspectSenior Legal OperationsLegal Project Manager
Primary FocusOverseeing legal department processes, technology, and strategyManaging specific legal projects, timelines, and deliverables
Required SkillsLegal operations, technology, process improvementProject management, legal knowledge, communication
Work EnvironmentLegal departments, law firms, corporate settingsLegal teams, external vendors, law firms
CertificationsLegal operations certifications, project management (e.g., PMP)Project management certifications, legal background

Senior Legal Operations professionals focus on optimizing legal department functions, technology, and strategic initiatives. Legal Project Managers concentrate on planning and executing specific legal projects. While both roles require project management skills, Senior Legal Operations roles are broader, involving department-wide improvements, whereas Legal Project Managers handle individual projects within the legal team.

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Infographic showing various Senior Legal Operations job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 83% Full Time, 15% Part Time, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 94% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 4% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $98,723 per year, or $47.5 per hour.
Sr Legal Operations Specialist, Legal Transformation Project Manager

Sr Legal Operations Specialist, Legal Transformation Project Manager

Honeywell

Charlotte, NC • Hybrid

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 10 days ago


Honeywell rating

8.3

Company rating: 8.3 out of 10

Based on 180 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

69th of 527 rated manufacturers


Job description

As Sr Legal Operations Specialist, Legal Transformation, you will coordinate and support projects that improve how Honeywell's Corporate Legal function operates. Your work will span legal process optimization, communications, financial operations, project governance, and global operating model initiatives. Representative projects include building legal project governance routines, improving legal team communications, supporting annual operating planning, and creating reusable tools for legal teams. You will manage project planning, execution, stakeholder coordination, and delivery for Legal Transformation initiatives in partnership with Honeywell's legal function. 

You will report to the Senior Director of Legal Operations and work from Honeywell's Charlotte, NC or Phoenix, AZ office on a hybrid schedule. The role may require occasional coordination across global time zones and limited travel for project, team, or leadership meetings. You will partner with Legal leadership, HR, Communications, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to define project scope, manage execution, track risks, and communicate progress through completion. This role requires a project manager who can bring structure to initiatives, work effectively across functions, and support the execution of legal operations plans.

In this role, success means Legal Transformation initiatives have clear plans, visible accountability, timely decisions, and practical tools that help Honeywell's Legal function operate more effectively across global teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support the definition of project scope, success criteria, milestones, owners, dependencies, and deliverables to track accountability, measurable outcomes, and visible progress
  • Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resource models, budget inputs, risk and issue logs, status reports, and executive-ready materials
  • Maintain project governance routines, including meeting cadences, escalation paths, and executive review materials
  • Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across Legal, Finance, HR, Communications, IT, Procurement, and other functional teams to keep projects on track, resolve blockers, and prepare materials for leadership review
  • Track project progress against milestones, identify risks and issues early, escalate decisions when needed, and drive mitigation plans to closure
  • Track project metrics, adoption measures, and deliverable status to report on progress of Legal Transformation initiatives
  • Prepare concise project updates, dashboards, leadership summaries, and stakeholder communications that give legal leaders and cross-functional partners clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and next steps
  • Support change management and adoption activities for Legal Transformation initiatives, including stakeholder readiness, training logistics, communications, and adoption tracking
  • Facilitate post-project reviews, capture lessons learned, and convert them into reusable templates, playbooks, and process improvements for the Legal function
  • Partner with Communications and HR to manage Legal communications channels and routines, including Viva Engage, the quarterly Extended Leadership Team meeting, and Legal's internal intranet presence
  • Partner with Finance and budget owners to support Legal financial operations, including subscription management, spend tracking, and support for the annual operating plan
  • Support legal and business stakeholders in maintaining and improving legal processes, including standard workflows, governance routines, and implementation tracking
  • Provide project management guidance to legal team members on planning, accountability, risk management, and effective status reporting
  • Develop and improve project management resources, including templates, playbooks, dashboards, meeting routines, and reporting tools that help the Legal function execute projects consistently

CORE SKILLS

  • Project planning and execution
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Change management
  • Process improvement
  • Operational organization and attention to detail
  • Comfort working across global teams
Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments - powered by our Honeywell Forge software - that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL

In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit: click here

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting date: June 30, 2026

YOU MUST HAVE

  • 3+ years of experience supporting or coordinating cross-functional projects or programs in a corporate, professional services, legal operations, finance, HR, IT, or similar environment
  • Experience building and managing project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risk and issue logs, status reports, and leadership-ready materials
  • Ability to communicate clearly with project stakeholders, translate project details into concise updates, and support accountability across teams

WE VALUE

  • Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, communications, finance, operations, information systems, or a related field
  • PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or other project management certification, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in legal operations or corporate legal environment
  • Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, or similar tools

ABOUT HONEYWELL

Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world's most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, air travel, productivity, and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state-of-the-art technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high-growth businesses in broad-based, attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe. Learn more about Honeywell: click here


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Honeywell is charging into the Industrial IoT revolution with the establishment of Honeywell Connected Enterprise (HCE), building on our heritage of invention and deep, on-the-ground industry expertise. HCE is the leading industrial disruptor, building and connecting software solutions to streamline and centralize the assets, people and processes that help our customers make smarter, more accurate business decisions. Moving at the speed of software, we are creating, innovating and delivering solutions fast, challenging the way things have always been done, piloting new ways for all of us to work, and expecting our successes to set new standards for our customers and for Honeywell. The Chief Architect for Honeywell Connected Enterprise will lead a team of architects and system engineers responsible for the design of applications and infrastructure that deliver high value outcomes for customers in industrial, buildings, distribution centers, and aerospace vertical markets. The Chief Architect will work directly with leadership, development teams, and offering management to design well integrated solutions that utilize software platforming to encourage reuse and speed to market.

Industry

Furniture manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Charlotte, NC, US

Year founded

1906