About Kirkland & Ellis

At Kirkland & Ellis, we are united in our ambition and drive to move forward. We share core values that help us achieve excellence: collaboration, talent empowerment, service, inclusion, respect and gratitude. Our people are our greatest asset, and we invest in the brightest talent and encourage a diversity of perspectives and strengths to create dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their field. Our talented professionals show up every day knowing they will engage in meaningful work, continuous learning and professional development.

As one of the world's leading law firms, we serve a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and management; restructurings; high-stakes litigation and trials; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. We handle the most complicated and sophisticated legal matters because we don't just meet industry standards, we create them. We bring innovation and entrepreneurialism to every engagement and, as a result, have long-standing client relationships with leading global corporations and financial sponsors. With 6,500 employees (including 3,000+ lawyers) operating from 18 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia, we are one of the largest law firms in the world and a top financial performer.

Essential Job Functions

This role will report to the Chief Information Officer and will lead the Information Technology ("IT") Partner/Alliance, Process, Quality, and Office of CIO functions. Important goals for this role are to enable third parties to provide IT with market leading expertise, experience, and scalability while also enabling IT to focus on strategic and urgent work related to business growth and innovation; to improve speed to business value and reducing defects that impact end-user productivity; and to improve IT processes to achieve improve end user satisfaction, reduced cycle time and improved quality of service.

Essential Functions: (This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented and changed as necessary.)

• Partner Alliance: Lead the planning, development and implementation of the IT Partner Alliance capability, including institutionalized processes, metrics with regular measurement, reporting and continuous improvement.
• Quality Assurance: Lead the planning, development and implementation of a right-sized Quality Assurance capability, leveraging third parties as needed, including institutionalized processes, metrics with regular measurement, reporting and continuous improvement.
• Process: Lead the ongoing enhancement of the existing IT operational processes through improved definition and institutionalization, including metrics and reporting.
• Office of CIO: Lead the Office of the CIO responsibilities that includes IT finance operations and the ever changing needs of IT as it executes on the Digital Transformation and Modernization journey.
• Resource Management: Lead the IT resource management function to support evolving needs of IT staff including workforce management and planning.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education, Work Experience, Skills:

• Prior experience in leading an IT business operation function to support transformation.
• Prior experience in vendor management, contract lifecycle management, setting up vendor governance, service level agreements (SLAs) and controls.
• Prior experience leading quality and resourcing management functions.
• Experience with professional services, partnership firms preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required / Master's degree preferred.
• 15 years preferred.
• Location flexible.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• For most positions, the below description will suffice. Please discuss with HR if you think you have a position where the below will not be applicable.
• "This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets."

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