Senior Manager, Legal Operations - Outside Counsel Center of Excellence (HYBRID)

GEICO Network Manager

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual with diverse experience and skills necessary to manage a network of outside law firms for the Company. We are looking for an experienced individual who will report to the Director of Legal Strategic Operations and work with cross-functional partners in the Claims Organization, Supplier Management, Technology, and Finance to develop panels, run RFPs, propose innovative opportunities to manage relationships and spend, and build the framework and governance for these activities.

Essential Functions:

• Work collaboratively with senior leadership and contribute meaningfully to strategic planning relating to outside counsel engagement.
• Identify innovative opportunities, present plans and build support for enhanced outside counsel performance management.
• Build a relationship program with appropriate framework and governance to enhance strategic partnerships with key law firms.
• Display strong leadership, teamwork, communication and analytical skills.
• Navigate and resolve diverse and complex issues in imaginative and effective ways.
• Find and pursue cost reduction opportunities by challenging current methods, cost models, business processes, etc.
• Work side-by-side with the Director of Legal Strategic Operations, the Legal Data team, and the Claims Innovation team by leveraging data to drive decisions leading to cost reduction and process improvements.
• Negotiate law firm pricing and other commercial terms.
• Knowledge of the latest industry trends and evolving market forces driving law firm rates and billing trends.
• Have strong ability with technology and tools to implement process improvements to e-billing and high-volume litigation management.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience working with large datasets
• Well organized with good verbal and written communication skills
• 4-year degree in Information Systems or related field
• Minimum 5 years experience
• Preferred corporate legal department or law firm experience
• Preferred experience in financial services or insurance industry

Location: Hybrid - Chevy Chase, MD

Annual Salary $151,700.00 - $235,750.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career and your potential in mind.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.