Cannabis Manager Legal Operations Jobs

Reports to: Vice President, Legal

Position Overview:

The Manager, Legal Operations (the “Manager”) is responsible legal operations management including managing outside counsel spending, contract management, information governance, and electronic discovery. Additionally, the Manager will oversee the company’s insurance risk program. This Manager will work closely with stakeholders throughout the company and guide best practices for team collaboration. Additionally, this role will collaborate with the IT Department to help ensure the security of the company’s information assets. Imperative to the success of this role is working as a collaborative member of the team, as well as the ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment where systems and processes are continuously evolving.

Major Areas of Responsibility include:

• Coordinating the identification, assessment, reporting and management of risk in relation to all aspects of information governance, including working with stakeholders across the enterprise to create and maintain a data map, indicating the type and location of information (initially with an emphasis on patient data).
• Developing and implementing policies and procedures to support information governance and the effective use and safeguarding of information, in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Providing advice and guidance to senior management on information governance issues, including statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Developing, overseeing and monitoring information governance training for senior management and all applicable staff.
• Responsible for all outside counsel invoicing and legal vendor management, including maintaining compliance with the billing guidelines for outside counsel and all associated systems.
• Identifying and implementing legal technology to increase efficiencies and effectiveness and cost savings for the Legal Department, including management of systems that support electronic billing and matter management, contract management, entity management, information governance and board governance, .
• Partnering with legal leadership and finance to develop and manage the legal annual operating plan.
• Providing eDiscovery and litigation management support for all matters.

Minimum Qualifications (Skills, Knowledge & Abilities):

• All applicants must be at least 21 years of age.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Pre-Law, Finance or another relevant field is required.
• 5+ years of experience in corporate records, or as a corporate paralegal, preferably within a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Analytical personality with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Accurate, timely and detail oriented.
• Must work well under pressure and within tight timelines and shifting priorities.

Travel %: 20

FLSA status: Exempt

Additional Abilities Required:

• This job operates in an office setting and is largely sedentary, requiring the routine use of a computer and other standard office equipment. The ability to lift or move up to 5 pounds, bend, reach, and perform manual tasks may also be required.
• Note: Nothing in this job description restricts the company’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made in appropriate circumstances to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of the position.
  

About Columbia Care:

Columbia Care is one of the largest and most experienced cultivators, manufacturers and providers of medical and adult use cannabis products and related services with licenses in 18 US jurisdictions and the EU. Columbia Care currently operates 107 facilities1 including 80 dispensaries and 27 cultivation and manufacturing facilities. Columbia Care is one of the original providers of medical cannabis in the United States, and continues to deliver an industry-leading, patient-centered medicinal cannabis operation that has quickly expanded into the adult use market as a premier operator. The company currently offers products spanning flower, edibles, oils, and tablets, and manufactures popular brands including Seed & Strain, Amber and Platinum Label CBD. With more than four million sales transactions since its inception in 2012, Columbia Care is known for setting the standard for compassion, professionalism, quality, care, and innovation in the rapidly expanding cannabis industry. For more information on Columbia Care, please visit www.col-care.com.

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Overview:

Drive strategy and management of outside counsel for a Fortune 200 CPG company! Have a Bachelors degree along with 6 plus years of supplier management, project & process & management and/or organizational development in a law firm or corporate environment? We want to speak with you! We are looking for a Manager Legal Operations in Richmond, VA.

In this role, you will:

• Handle outside counsel and matter management for the Altria Client Services' Law Department
• Drive strategy and ongoing management of outside counsel (70+ firms) and legal support vendors
• Lead execution of annual rate negotiations and alternative fee arrangements with legal support vendors and outside counsel firms
• Revise and ensure firm compliance of Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG) which serves as ALCS contract with firms/suppliers.
  
• Ensure daily operation and integrity of matter management system and payment processing
• Mitigate IT Security risks for outside counsel firms in alignment with IT Risk Management programs
• Handle the Law Department budget
• Lead legal IT system projects
• Find opportunities for process/program improvements using analysis and external benchmarking

We want you to have:

• Bachelors Degree in Management, Finance, Information Technology, or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
  
• 6 + years experience in finance, IT, compliance, law or related areas in large corporation or law firm environment
• 6 + years experience with project & process management, supplier management, and organizational development
  
• Understanding of budgetary, financial and legal processes, compliance obligations and Operating Company business strategies
• Critical thinking skills which can be applied to operational and strategic opportunities
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with all levels of personnel
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing others without authority

In addition to the opportunity to apply and develop your skills toward key business objectives, we offer an excellent compensation package including a competitive base salary, comprehensive health/vision/dental insurance, participation in our incentive compensation and deferred profit-sharing programs as well as a relocation assistance.
Company Overview:Altria Group is a FORTUNE 200 company that leads the premier tobacco companies in the United States. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Altria Group holds diversified positions across tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. Our tobacco companies include some of the most enduring names in American business: Philip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, John Middleton, and Nat Sherman. We have 35 percent ownership of JUUL Labs, Inc., the nation’s leading e-vapor company. And we have an 80% interest in Helix Innovations, which manufactures and markets on!, an oral tobacco-derived nicotine pouch product. We complement our total tobacco business with our ownership of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and our significant equity investment in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer. Altria’s significant stake in Cronos Group, a leading global cannabinoid company, represents an exciting new global growth opportunity. At Altria, we recognize that our people are the reason we achieve our business goals. It’s only through diverse perspectives and insights that we will be able to take on the important challenges we will face to dramatically transform our business – and our industry. The work opportunities and experiences, combined with training, development, and advancement programs, allow our employees to achieve their full potential and deliver superior business results. We have the opportunity to make more progress on harm reduction in the next 10 years than we have in the past 50 years. Join us as we work together to shape a better future for adult tobacco consumers, our employees, and our shareholders. Each Altria company is an equal opportunity employer.

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