Consultant Legal Transform Operate
Zurich
Key information
- Publication date:26 November 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Zurich
Job summary
Join EY to shape your future with confidence in a dynamic team.
Tasks
- Help clients improve their legal function operations effectively.
- Design and optimize legal service delivery processes.
- Assist in digital transformation and legal technology implementation.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree with 3 years or a master's/JD with 4 years experience.
- Strong communication and organizational skills are essential.
- Ability to lead projects and engage with clients effectively.
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Kick-start a purposeful career and become part of our unique EY Law Legal Transform Operate (LTO) Team to tackle exciting daily challenges!
The EY LTO team is focused on helping clients improve how they operate their legal function. Many clients leverage groups like LTO to bring best-in-class ideas and provide the insight and experience on how to implement these ideas. Nearly all our projects are carried out in a teaming environment with client personnel often fully involved. Our LTO team is dedicated to helping companies: (1) assess the complexities of delivering value, (2) manage risk in their corporate legal functions, (3) transform the overall service delivery and resource model or (4) improve efficiency across aspects of the legal department - talent, processes, technology, and actionable data. Furthermore, LTO offers post improvement or transformation solutions in specific areas including enterprise contracting, employment operate, entity management, and other operational aspect of providing legal services.
Your key responsibilities
- Operating strategy and organizational design– assist clients in identifying improvement opportunities and developing responsive legal service delivery operating models and organizational structures
- Process Optimization – design effective and controlled legal-business processes to increase efficiency, reduce risk and drive business results
- Spend analysis and strategic sourcing - perform spend analysis and correlative strategic planning for legal departments activities
- Legal contracts transformation – understand contracts and contract lifecycle management (CLM) processes. Assist clients modernize, streamline, and/or automate their contracting efforts as well as leverage the data available in contracts to deliver the business actionable insights
- Digital transformation
- Assist the client to maximize the value firm existing technology investments and design new legal service technology platforms (e.g., Case Management, Matter Management/ eBilling, CLM, legal service workflow, Document Management, Document Automation)
- Experience with commercially available legal technology applications– assist the client in evaluating, selecting and implementing technologies that will bring faster and more efficient processing (e.g., SharePoint, Onit, Team Connect)
- Apply knowledge of emerging technologies – assist the client with opportunities to leverage RPA, AI, Self Service workflows and other technology to drive efficiencies and overall cost reduction across the legal function
What we look for
- Bachelor's degree and approximately 3 years of related work experience; or master’s degree/JD and approximately 4 years of related work experience (preferred); Information Systems, Business, Analytics, Finance, Accounting or Legal Studies (undergraduate)/JD (graduate) fields of study preferred
- Valid CPA, CIPP/E, CIPPM, CISA, CISSP, CISM, LPIP, PMP ormember in good standing of the Bar
- Demonstrated ability to identify and address client needs, develop client relationships and define resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection
- Experience within a corporate legal department is also valuable
- Excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills
- Ability to lead multiple projects with minimal oversight
- Relevant experience in one or more of the following specialty areas: a) Legal Department Operations.; b) Legal technology and innovation; c) Legal contracts and workflows/contract management; d) Legal department transformation, or e) Legal process improvement
What’s in it for you
Here at EY, you’ll have the chance to build a truly exceptional experience. We’ll empower you with the latest technology and surround you with high-performing teams. Through our coaching and training programs, you’ll develop the skills you need - all while building a network of colleagues, mentors, and leaders who will be on the journey with you at EY and beyond.
Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities. If you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, we are happy to support you.
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