To provide fixed-term maternity cover for selected Legal Operations responsibilities, ensuring continuity of critical service delivery and progress of priority initiatives. The role will coordinate and deliver activity across external counsel management, legal technology, learning and engagement and merger integration, while partnering closely with internal Legal Operations colleagues, the Group Legal & CoSec Leadership team, Finance, Supply Chain, technology teams, legal stakeholders and external suppliers.   Strategic planning and integration Partner with the wider Legal Operations team and General Counsel on the annual Operations planning cycle, including priority-setting, socialisation and alignment. Shaping, mobilizing and implementation of projects to deliver strategic operational outcomes. Support Legal and Corporate Affairs functional leads with merger integration activity, including data gathering, service delivery design, culture and change support. Process improvement, technology, systems and AI Work with teams and leaders to help define, design, and deliver internal process change, including helping to drive continuous improvement across the team. This would include coaching and support in project delivery for team members in relation to transformational change. Act as product manager for legal technology stack vendors, maintaining vendor relationships and coordinating feature updates and service improvements and leading commercial negotiations for licence renewals. Partner with internal stakeholders to iterate and maintain our matter management system (recently refreshed), including adoption, governance and continuous improvement initiatives. Maintain key knowledge management artefacts in our technology platforms, iterating and updating as required. Partner with internal stakeholders to further develop and deliver the Legal AI programme, including learning, community engagement, responsible adoption, use-case identification, and solution development. External counsel, supplier and financial operations Support legal team members and Finance with budgeting and outlook tracking for significant legal matters to maintain a clear view of anticipated spend. Lead the annual cycle of law firm rate reviews across rosters with relevant reporting in collaboration with Supply Chain, including reviewing proposals, leading negotiations and maintaining the central rate repository. Coordinate relationship management for Corporate and UK roster firms, including preparing meetings, shaping discussion topics, communicating process changes and acting as a point of contact for operational matters. Review rates submitted with invoices on behalf of the UK Legal team and resolve exceptions with relevant stakeholders. Manage contracting and purchase order set-up for non-legal-matter suppliers delivering wider services to the function, working with the invoice support team. Coordinate ad hoc roster or preferred-firm appointments, including supplier engagement, internal alignment, rate negotiation and contracting; support any roster exercise required by integration activity. Partner with internal stakeholders on the management of specific legal service delivery models, including changes to the model and supplier engagement as required. Partner with internal stakeholders on management of the service delivery of invoice support across the UK legal team. People, learning and communications Design and coordinate global training initiatives. Define and implement ad hoc speaking and learning events with roster firms. Draft and coordinate award submissions, communications and announcements on behalf of the Legal team. Provide line management cover where agreed, including regular touchpoints and mid-year/full-year performance conversations.