European Legal Ops & Automation Lead

Onodrim Industries; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Onodrim Industries seeks a hands-on legal operations and project manager to scale our legal and compliance work across Europe. You will design smarter processes, test and implement automation tools, and lead end-to-end projects with clear owners and milestones.

You’ll periodically travel to acquired companies across Europe to align practices with Onodrim’s standards, build practical templates and playbooks, and ensure rapid adoption of improvements while maintaining high-quality legal judgement.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years experience in-house legal or compliance with hands-on delivery.
• Experience implementing legal technology and workflow automation.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, post‑acquisition integration or process improvements across multiple businesses and jurisdictions.
• Fluency in one or more additional European languages, particularly for working with local teams across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Build smarter legal workstreams. Map how work gets done, identify bottlenecks, and design and implement simpler, more effective processes across legal and compliance.
• Put technology to work. Evaluate, test and implement tools and automation for workstreams such as due diligence, compliance screening, document management and routine contract review.
• Own delivery end to end. Turn broad objectives into practical projects with clear owners, milestones and success measures.
• Support the day-to-day work. Review contracts and NDAs using approved templates, coordinate signatures, maintain records, and escalate issues needing a lawyer’s judgement.
• Work on the ground. Periodically forward deploy to acquired companies to understand practices and implement improvements.
• Make change stick. Create templates, playbooks, and guidance and hand over ownership so improvements continue after you move on.
• Be the connective tissue. Collaborate with internal and external legal/compliance colleagues, acquisition teams, and business functions.

Skills

Legal operations

Project management

Process improvement

Digital tools

English communication

Tools

Legal tech

Automation tooling

Job description

Onodrim Industries seeks a hands-on legal operations and project manager to scale our legal and compliance work across Europe. You will design smarter processes, test and implement automation tools, and lead end-to-end projects with clear owners and milestones.

You’ll periodically travel to acquired companies across Europe to align practices with Onodrim’s standards, build practical templates and playbooks, and ensure rapid adoption of improvements while maintaining high-quality legal judgement.