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Paralegal & Operations Analyst - General Counsel's Office


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  • Job Description

      Req#: JREQ189285

      Join the Thomson Reuters General Counsel’s Office as a Paralegal & Operations Analyst, Customers & Commercial, within the Centers of Excellence and Knowledge Management team.

      The Paralegal & Commercial Operations Analyst is part of a large global team of lawyers supporting our Commercial functions.

      About the Role

      In this opportunity as Paralegal & Operations Analyst, you will:

      • Project Management & Process Optimization
      • Support the team by managing team projects, ensuring deadlines are met and stakeholders are aligned.
      • Maintain the team’s operational playbook and other key process documents.
      • Assist in the development and implementation of process improvements to enhance efficiency and increase Sales and Partnerships contracting velocity.
      • Work with our Legal Operations function to maintain and optimize legal technology tools, such as contract management systems, workflow automation platforms and centralized repositories.
      • Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including Commercial Policy, Deal Desk, Compliance, Sales and Partnerships to ensure alignment on contracting processes and implementation of contract lifecycle management system.
      • Knowledge Management & Governance
      • Manage and continuously improve our legal know-how and business-facing guidance, ensuring content is up to date (by working with applicable SMEs) and structured for easy access.
      • Oversee updates to our knowledge center platform, ensuring alignment with team needs.
      • Maintain and enforce good governance, editorial standards, and version control for legal templates and resources.
      • Communications, Drafting & Reporting
      • Manage the legal team’s monthly newsletter, curating relevant content and insights for stakeholders.
      • Draft communications from the team, including updates, guidance, and key messages.
      • Draft basic legal documents (contract variations, NDAs, etc.) and clauses for clause banks
      • Work with our Legal Operations function to track, report, and provide insights on key metrics from legal technology tools and knowledge center for the team and other stakeholders.

      About You

      You’re a fit for the role of Paralegal & Operations Analyst if you have:

      • Bachelor’s degree in law or paralegal certification (or equivalent legal experience).
      • Experience working in a legal or contract management role, with exposure to contract negotiation, legal operations, and/or project management, within either a corporate legal department or law firm setting.
      • A proactive and solutions-oriented mindset; interest in legal know-how, knowledge management, and process improvement
      • Experience working with cross-functional teams in a business or legal environment.
      • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
      • Excellent attention to detail and strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
      • Strong legal drafting skills with familiarity of basic legal concepts and issues.
      • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power BI (preferred) and PowerPoint) and experience with contract lifecycle management systems or legal tech tools.
      • Fluency in English.

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      What’s in it For You?

      • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

      • Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

      • Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

      • Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

      • Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

      • Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

      • Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

      About Us

      Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

      We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

      As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

      We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here .

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      More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

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