Senior Resource and Innovation Manager

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe • Chicago, IL • 4h ago

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13850353

Overview:\ Orrick currently has an excellent opportunity for a Senior Resource and Innovation Manager.This position could be based in any of our U.S. offices and consideration given for100% remote US locations.\ \ The Objective: The Senior Resource and Innovation Manager serves as the strategic coordinator for the firm\'s global Research & Information vendor portfolio. This role is responsible for maximizing the value, effectiveness, and return on investment of the firms information resources through strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, vendor governance, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision making. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to R&I, Innovation, and firm leadership, identifying opportunities to strengthen vendor partnerships, advance innovative solutions and ensure alignment with evolving attorney, client, and business needs.\ \ What will I do? Working in close partnership with the Vendor Management Office, Finance, Technology, Information Security, and Practice Groups, and other key stakeholders, the Senior Resource and Innovation Manager aligns research resource investments with firm priorities and business objectives. The role requires a commercially minded professional who can lead high-value sourcing and renewal initiatives, manage a complex portfolio of legal and business vendors, and deliver data-informed recommendations that drive adoption and maximize return on the firms information resource investments.\ \ Responsibilities:\ Strategic R&I Vendor Management\ \ Develop and execute a global R&I vendor management strategy aligned with firm business objectives and practice group priorities.\ Serve as primary commercial and technical contact for R&I vendors and technology partners.\ Build strong, collaborative relationships with key global vendors to influence product roadmaps, ensure service delivery, and identify innovation/collaboration opportunities.\ Continually work to identify opportunities for vendor consolidation, standardization, and enterprise licensing to maximize value and reduce management complexity.\ Lead strategic sourcing and renewal initiatives across legal, business, and knowledge-management vendors.\ Provide support and collaboration for cross-border colleagues for their jurisdictionally specific vendor contracts.\ Finance and Operations\ \ Responsible for daily management and oversight of global library budget including maintaining timely processing of renewals, regular reporting updates to leadership, and reforecasting processes, as necessary.\ Collaborate on internal budget process with jurisdictional R&I leads, the R&I Senior Analyst and Director of R&I.\ Continuously drive vendor tracking and documentation efficiencies, with a focus on transparency and consistency\ Oversee R&I ad-hoc purchases, tracking, and budget allocations.\ Oversee and advise on operational processes including management of Research Monitor, online catalog, and print collection.\ Proactively deliver resource usage reporting and recommendations to the R&I management team, enabling data-informed collaborative outreach and training strategies that that drive adoption and maximize product-suite ROI.\ Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement\ \ Lead an operational support team including providing coaching, assessing, and maintaining workloads and identifying and providing opportunities for skills development.\ Collaborate closely with R&I and Innovation senior leadership to ensure alignment with business objectives.\ Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of legal resource data feeds, including APIs and MCPs, to advise on system requirements and contractual provisions, and proactively identify constraints affecting permitted dataset use cases.\ Function as R&I liaison to Practice Group leadership teams providing regular resource updates on spend and usage data to ensure strategic alignment with attorney and client goals.\ Function as trusted advisor to innovation and firm leadership on resource investment decisions, emerging market opportunities, and vendor strategy.\ Proactively communicate resources changes, including technological enhancements and AI capabilities, to ensure ROI on resources.\ Regularly partner with practice groups, innovation, legal research, business research, communications, marketing/BD, etc. to ensure resource investments meet business needs.\ Create, track, and present clear business case recommendations on key investment decisions.\ \ Qualifications:\ \ Demonstrated success leading high-value enterprise contract negotiations and procurement initiatives.\ Proven experience managing complex vendor portfolios and strategic supplier relationships.\ Strong understanding of procurement methodologies, sourcing strategies, financial analysis, and contract lifecycles management.\ Experience identifying and delivering measurable cost savings, cost avoidance, and operational efficiencies.\ Experience managing complex budgets and budget lifecycles.\ Knowledge of legal technology, research platforms, AI-enabled information services, and evolving information marketplace trends including

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