Legal Project Management Lead - HYBRID

About the role

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States.

GEICO Law – Policy – Compliance is seeking an experienced Legal Project Management Lead to join the Operational Enablement team within Legal Operations. This position serves as an operational partner to assigned Legal teams, helping translate departmental priorities into structured, effectively executed initiatives. The Legal Project Management Lead independently manages projects throughout the full project lifecycle, provides project governance and reporting, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, and supports business-process improvement. The role is responsible for creating the structure, visibility, and execution discipline needed to successfully deliver initiatives. The successful candidate will have strong project management, process improvement, communication, and stakeholder-management skills and will be comfortable working across multiple initiatives in a complex, fast-paced legal environment.

Responsibilities

• Legal Operations Partnership & Initiatives: Serve as an operational partner to assigned Legal teams, supporting initiatives and helping translate departmental priorities, business needs, and operational challenges into structured initiatives and solutions.
• Legal Operations Partnership & Initiatives: Develop an understanding of assigned teams' priorities, processes, and portfolio of work and partner with Legal leaders, subject-matter experts, and Legal Operations colleagues to identify opportunities for operational improvement.
• Project & Initiative Management: Define, launch, and execute strategic and operational initiatives through the project lifecycle, including developing work plans, establishing schedules and priorities, coordinating resources and dependencies, facilitating working sessions, and maintaining required project documentation.
• Project & Initiative Management: Monitor progress, risks, issues, and scope; maintain appropriate governance and reporting; and coordinate stakeholders to keep initiatives moving toward agreed deliverables and successful completion.
• Business Process & Legal Operations Improvement: Review, document, and analyze legal, business, and administrative processes, including developing process maps, workflows, standard operating procedures, and other operational documentation.
• Business Process & Legal Operations Improvement: Partner with Legal teams, Legal Technology, and other stakeholders to identify and implement Legal Operations and process improvements, including opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual work, improve consistency, and leverage technology where appropriate.
• Stakeholder Coordination & Implementation: Collaborate with Legal leaders, attorneys, Legal Operations, Legal Technology, and other cross-functional partners to gather requirements, develop recommendations, coordinate decisions, and implement operational and technology-enabled solutions.
• Stakeholder Coordination & Implementation: Support implementation and change activities, including communications, testing, training, adoption, transition, and handoff to business-as-usual operations, as appropriate.
• Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement: Gather and synthesize relevant data, develop project and operational reporting, and work with stakeholders to identify appropriate success measures, metrics, and indicators of business value.
• Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement: Support Legal Operations continuous improvement by gathering stakeholder feedback, tracking outcomes, incorporating lessons learned and recognized practices, and identifying opportunities to improve how Legal work is delivered.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, project management, operations, legal studies, or a related field.
• Minimum of five years of relevant professional experience, including demonstrated experience independently leading projects, programs, operational initiatives, or process-improvement efforts.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects throughout the full lifecycle, including planning, execution, monitoring, implementation, and closure.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, governance materials, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively with senior leaders, attorneys, technology teams, business partners, and subject-matter experts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, facilitation, and decision-support skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing executive-level reports, presentations, and project updates.
• Sound judgment, attention to detail, discretion, and the ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and related collaboration or project-management tools.

Qualifications

• Experience in Legal Operations, an in-house legal department, a law firm, management consulting, or a comparable professional-services environment.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Lean Six Sigma, Prosci change-management, or a comparable project, process-improvement, or change-management certification.