Legal Operations specialist

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer. 

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Legal Operations specialist to join our Law Planning & Performance Management department, to be responsible for Outside Counsel Management activities. You will be in charge of managing and overseeing relationships with external law firms to ensure that our organization receives efficient legal support.

Saudi Aramco's Law Organization is growing in response to a broad corporate initiative that involves the continued growth of its exploration, production, refining and marketing, along with expansion into petrochemicals, renewables, power and other sectors of the energy business. For adventurous individuals who are interested in working at one of the world's most successful companies, Saudi Aramco offers challenging and sophisticated in-house opportunities.

As the specialist, you will be responsible for organizing and directing professional legal support to meet the needs of our complex and rapidly evolving business processes.

As a successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Serving as the Law Organization’s liaison with outside counsel.
• Oversight of the Matter Management and e-billing system.
• Guidance of Strategic projects and initiatives, relevant policies and procedures.
• Tracking and analyzing relevant billing data, statistics, and trends.
• Providing billing reports and analysis to Law Management to assist with decision making.
• Assisting in budget monitoring and forecasting.
• Negotiating with outside counsel to ensure competitive and fair billing.
• Resolving billing disputes and discrepancies.
• Developing and implementing cost control initiatives, whilst optimizing outside counsel spend.
• Evaluating rate increase requests, implementing alternative fee arrangements, tracking and monitoring performance scorecards, and coordinating annual outside counsel meetings and other programs.
• Evaluating requests for proposals with outside counsel.
• Conducting risk assessment and developing commensurate contingency plans.
• Identifying resource requirements, processes, costs and timelines.
• Leading the sourcing of legal vendors.
• Identifying trends influencing the Law Organization’s legal spend and matter workload

As a successful candidate you will have:

• Bachelor degree in business, engineering or a related discipline. Law is preferred
• Minimum 12 years relevant experience with a large corporation, law firm, or professional services company.
• Demonstrable understanding of traditional and alternative fee arrangements.
• Working knowledge of relevant systems and tools available for matter, document, and vendor management, including e-billing systems.
• Ability to influence and leverage relationships within and outside the Law Organization.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to make informed recommendations.
• Ability to present complex information in an accurate and persuasive manner to all levels of management.
• High level of professionalism, team player, and a strong client service orientation; and,
• Ability to easily handle shifting priorities and multi-tasking in a deadline-oriented environment.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.