Director, Global Legal Template Transformation

About the role

The Director, Global Legal Template Transformation leads the worldwide strategy and execution for simplifying, governing, and implementing contract templates, clauses, and playbooks. Reporting to the Senior Director, GSINC Legal & Risk Lead, this role operates with significant autonomy and enterprise visibility.

Key responsibilities

• Own the global legal template transformation roadmap, priorities, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead assessment, consolidation, simplification, drafting, validation, and approval of templates, clauses, fallback positions, playbooks, exhibits, and guidance.
• Set plain‑language, user‑centered content standards while maintaining legal and compliance protections.
• Steward consistent legal positions, challenge legacy approaches, and frame material issues for senior leaders.
• Lead localization of globally neutral content and build the end‑to‑end operating model including intake, taxonomy, roles, handoffs, maintenance, and tools.
• Establish governance for ownership, version control, approvals, exceptions, review cycles, releases, and retirement.
• Define and report workstream measures for progress, adoption, simplification, cycle time, quality, risk, partner experience, and realized value.

Required profile

• Juris Doctor, LL.B., or equivalent law degree.
• Minimum 10 years of legal or contracting experience, including leadership of complex commercial contracting, legal operations, or enterprise transformation; life‑sciences experience strongly preferred.
• Strong legal and enterprise judgment, balancing risk, compliance, business value, market practice, operational feasibility, and user experience.
• Proven success delivering legal or contracting transformation at scale and connecting strategy, governance, content, technology, data, and change.

Required skills

• AI‑enabled contracting concepts
• Automation and analytics
• Structured data management
• Responsible AI principles