Legal Operations Manager

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients' capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world's largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

Key Responsibilities

Oversight of Legal Operations Services

• Serve as the primary liaison and single point of contact for legal operations service provider engagements, coordinating scope, timelines, and deliverables. Initial focus areas include vendor contract administration and BDC/operating company eligible asset testing and joint transaction exemptive order conditions oversight

• Act as the first escalation point for service provider teams to ensure timely issue resolution

• Define, monitor, and enforce SLAs

• Oversee efficiency and digitalization initiatives across engagements and ensure milestones are met

Privacy Operations Function Support

• Provide regular operational support for the Privacy Operations function

• Conduct annual privacy risk reviews of vendor contracts

• Manage ongoing privacy assessments for vendor contracts

• Facilitate employee privacy training

• Produce periodic privacy incident reports

• Drive privacy-related project management

Legal Operations Digitalization

• Support digitalization and efficiency programs for the Legal department

• Coordinate with technology and AI solutions partners on managing and prioritizing the book of work

• Assist with the scoping and planning of new projects

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (required)

• Paralegal Certificate (preferred)

• Minimum of 5 years of law firm/in-house legal or paralegal experience or other relevant experience

• Very detailed oriented

• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively

• Effective collaborator across departments, contributing to a positive, high-performing team culture

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to work independently on complex tasks

• Ability and comfort interacting with all levels of management, including senior stakeholders

• Experience with implementing workflows

• Experience with change management

• Intermediate knowledge of MS Word and Excel desired

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement

PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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