Senior Legal Transformation Advisor (m/f/d), based in EU or South Africa (remote)

At smartvokat, we assist clients in optimising their legal, risk and compliance service delivery and contracts management powered by ServiceNow's state-of-the-art digital process management applications.

We strive to be at the forefront of realising the untapped potential of making digital transformation accessible to all stakeholders.

PLEASE NOTE : we do not render legal or compliance advice but guide our clients towards optimising the process of offering legal, risk and compliance advice and any underyling technology.

As a member of smartvokat, you’ll work in a multi-disciplinary team of legal professionals, management and technical consultants who apply a cross-disciplinary approach to legal, compliance and risk process delivery.

You have more than 5 years' experience in managing legal, risk, compliance or contract lifecycle management projects in conjunction with corresponding tech products?

Your outstanding project management and communication skills assist you in exploring unchartered territory with multiple stakeholders?

Combining legal and regulatory content, processes, and technology excites you? Please apply now.

Tasks

• You will, as a senior team member, lead and manage complex legal, risk, compliance or contract lifecycle manageemnt transformation projects in partnership with client corporate legal, risk and compliance operations staff as well as your smartvokat team members.
• You will guide and direct the delivery of end-to-end solutions from the conceptual design phase to the actual technical implementation of ServiceNow's Legal Service Delivery, Contract Management Pro and Integrated Risk Management.
• Depending on the project requirements, you may act as a senior subject matter expert on the overall solution design combining content, processes and technology working closely with your allocated team members.

Requirements

• A tertiary degree or equivalent, ideally combined with experience in legal, compliance or risk functions.
• Excellent project management skills, including the ability to direct and management multiple project streams.
• Experience with Agile project management methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the facilitating multi-stakeholder environments.
• A sound understanding of working with, building and optimising processes and technology in the legal and compliance sector, particularly for corporate legal, risk and compliance operations.
• Ability to independently translate complex legal, risk and compliance content into comprehensive process maps and frameworks on a solution design level.
• Creativity and open mindset coupled with a hands-on attitude.
• Contribution of own ideas, accountability and a strong team player.
• Ability to lead a team of up to 10 smartvokat team members in the project and handling corresponding numbers of client stakeholders.
• A strong intercultural competence.
• Fluent in English and preferably German. A second European language is a plus.
• Although we collaborate as a remote team, your must be physically based in EU or South Africa.

Benefits

• A team of entrepreneurial-minded colleagues.
• A flat hierarchy with lots of opportunities to develop and own your space.
• Exposure to ground-breaking projects for multinational clients.
• Autonomous nature of working remotely and integrating work in your life (not the other way round).

9 for 10 programme", enabling you to take every 10th working day off for personal matters at full pay on top of 30 days of annual leave.

We look forward to hearing from you!

smartvokat is an independent legal engineering and tech firm operating in EMEA and the US.