Senior Consultant, Advisory

About the role

Consilio’s Legal Management Consulting team works with corporate legal departments around the world to improve how they operate, manage work, and adopt technology. Our engagements span areas including CLM readiness, legal operating model design, legal operations technology selection and health checks, process and governance improvement, contracting transformation, Legal GenAI readiness and tool selection, use-case development, and prompt libraries.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver defined workstreams across legal operations, legal technology, contracting transformation, and Legal GenAI engagements.
• Conduct current-state and readiness assessments covering organization, process, technology, governance, data, and ways of working.
• Lead or co-lead client workshops and stakeholder interviews with legal, legal operations, procurement, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Translate stakeholder input and analysis into clear findings, recommendations, roadmaps, and implementation priorities.
• Support clients with CLM readiness, including assessment of contracting processes, policies and governance, templates and clause libraries, repositories, metadata, obligations, reporting requirements, and technology dependencies.
• Map and analyze legal and contracting processes and identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, automation, and improved governance.
• Support legal operating model engagements covering service delivery, roles and responsibilities, governance, intake and triage, service catalogues, resourcing, technology, and performance management.
• Conduct legal operations technology assessments, health checks, and selection exercises across areas such as CLM, ELM, matter management, intake, workflow, document management, and related platforms.
• Develop requirements, evaluation criteria, use cases, scoring frameworks, and recommendations for technology selection exercises.
• Evaluate Legal GenAI platforms and support readiness assessments, vendor selection, pilots, and implementation planning.
• Identify and prioritize GenAI use cases and develop prompt libraries, prompt-testing approaches, user guidance, and supporting governance.
• Own client deliverables from initial structure and analysis through to quality review with the engagement lead.
• Manage assigned activities, timelines, and dependencies and escalate issues where appropriate.
• Provide direction and review work produced by Junior Consultants.
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, RFP responses, and client presentations.
• Develop reusable methodologies, accelerators, points of view, training materials, and thought leadership.
• Maintain awareness of developments across legal operations, CLM, legal technology, and GenAI.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant experience in legal consulting, legal operations, legal technology, contract management, transformation, professional services, or an in-house legal function.
• A degree in law, business, finance, information technology, information systems, data science, or another relevant discipline.
• Strong consulting and analytical skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop practical recommendations.
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, requirements gathering, or process analysis.
• Strong written and spoken English and an ability to communicate complex topics clearly to both legal and non-legal audiences.
• Experience producing high-quality client-facing reports, presentations, and analyses.
• Ability to manage a workstream, priorities, and deliverables with appropriate oversight from an engagement lead.
• Confidence working directly with senior stakeholders, including General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations, and functional leaders.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
• A practical understanding of legal technology and the role technology plays within a legal operating model.
• Demonstrable interest in and practical experience with generative AI, particularly its application to legal work.
• A pragmatic, collaborative, and commercially aware approach to consulting.

Skills

• Experience with CLM readiness, selection, or implementation (helpful but not essential).
• Exposure to ELM, matter management, intake, workflow, DMS, or other legal operations platforms (helpful but not essential).
• Experience conducting technology health checks or vendor selection exercises (helpful but not essential).
• Hands-on experience with Legal GenAI platforms and the development or testing of prompt libraries (helpful but not essential).
• Experience with contract management, process improvement, operating model design, or legal transformation (helpful but not essential).
• Change management experience or certification, for example Prosci (helpful but not essential).
• Project management or business analysis qualifications (helpful but not essential).
• A second language relevant to Consilio’s international client base (helpful but not essential).