Hybrid Legal Transformation Program Lead

Honeywell Technologies; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account

Employee Assistance Program

Educational Assistance

Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

12 Paid Holidays

Job summary

Honeywell Technologies is seeking a Legal Transformation Project Manager to lead high-impact programs transforming the Corporate Legal function. You will own end-to-end planning, governance, execution, adoption, and measurement for initiatives spanning process optimization, finances, operating models, and portfolio management.

You will partner with HR, Communications, Finance, IT, Procurement, and business stakeholders, translating priorities into executable roadmaps, aligning senior leaders,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience leading complex cross-functional projects, programs, or transformation initiatives in a corporate, professional-services, legal-operations, finance, HR, IT, or comparable environment.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading initiatives from scope definition and business case development through implementation, adoption, and outcome measurement.
• Experience establishing project or program governance, including decision rights, executive cadences, risk management, escalation mechanisms, and leadership reporting.
• Experience managing multiple interdependent workstreams, priorities, budgets, resources, risks, and stakeholders in a global or matrixed organization.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders, resolve ambiguity, frame decisions, and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Ability to translate complex business and project information into concise executive communications, recommendations, dashboards, and decision materials.
• Demonstrated ability to define measurable outcomes and use project, financial, operational, or adoption data to guide decisions and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex Legal Transformation projects or programs from strategy and scoping through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Define project scope, objectives, success measures, decision rights, milestones, resource requirements, dependencies, and deliverables in partnership with executive sponsors and functional leaders.
• Own integrated project and program plans, including timelines, resource models, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and executive reporting.
• Design and establish governance frameworks, operating cadences, escalation paths, decision forums, and accountability mechanisms for transformation initiatives.
• Lead interdependent workstreams across Legal, Finance, HR, Communications, IT, Procurement, and business teams, resolving blockers and driving timely cross-functional decisions.
• Anticipate material risks, evaluate business and operational impacts, recommend mitigation strategies, and drive agreed actions to closure.
• Define outcome measures, adoption indicators, and value-realization metrics; analyze performance and recommend course corrections to sponsors and Legal leadership.
• Develop executive-level updates, dashboards, and recommendations that clearly communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, required decisions, and expected outcomes.
• Develop and lead stakeholder engagement, change management, communications, training, readiness, adoption, and post-launch reinforcement strategies.
• Advise Legal leaders on project structure, governance, operating-model design, prioritization, sequencing, and implementation considerations.
• Lead the development and implementation of global legal operating models, including standardized processes, roles, controls, governance routines, and implementation roadmaps.
• Partner with Communications and HR to manage Legal communications channels and routines, including Viva Engage, the quarterly Extended Leadership Team meeting, and Legal's internal intranet presence.
• Partner with Finance and budget owners to strengthen financial planning and operational discipline, including subscription management, investment inputs, spend visibility, forecasting, and annual operating plan execution.
• Lead post-implementation reviews and translate lessons learned into scalable standards, playbooks, templates, controls, and process improvements.
• Coach project leads, legal professionals, and senior stakeholders on project and change-management practices, strengthening execution capability across the Legal function.
• Establish and continuously improve common Legal project-management methods, templates, dashboards, intake mechanisms, prioritization approaches, and reporting standards.
• Represent Legal Transformation in cross-functional planning and governance forums and make recommendations on priorities, sequencing, resource tradeoffs, and execution risks.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, finance, operations, information systems, or related field

Job description

Honeywell Technologies is seeking a Legal Transformation Project Manager to lead high-impact programs transforming the Corporate Legal function. You will own end-to-end planning, governance, execution, adoption, and measurement for initiatives spanning process optimization, finances, operating models, and portfolio management.

You will partner with HR, Communications, Finance, IT, Procurement, and business stakeholders, translating priorities into executable roadmaps, aligning senior leaders,