Shell USA, Inc.
Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager
Houston, TX
Mar 15, 2025
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What's the role

The Legal Sourcing team within Legal is critical to delivering success in transforming operational performance and optimising the use of our finite resources with a focus on value and cost. The Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager role is a key one for purposes of enabling the team to deliver results through innovation and efficient processes and support. The Legal Sourcing team is a multi-disciplinary team made up of specialists with expertise ranging from matter pricing to data analytics to finance operations. Driving excellence in the area of negotiations of fee arrangements with our external counsel is an area of particular focus, and critically important to success of the team, and of Legal overall.

Legal is a positive place to work, where our culture of innovation and cooperation helps us to deliver ever more efficient and cost-effective results in support of the business. We work as one team and are committed to excellence.

This is an ideal role for a candidate with experience and background in legal operations management, combined with deep knowledge and expertise in the field of legal services pricing and the negotiation of fee structures and arrangements. The ideal candidate will bring to the role a depth of experience working within a law firm setting, directing law firm pricing strategy and leading negotiations for the law firm in pricing fee arrangements with clients. The successful candidate will have a background of managing teams, performing as an effective leader, while simultaneously adding value as an individual contributor on high value projects.

What you'll be doing

In this role we will be looking to the successful candidate to:

  • Lead a diverse group of legal professionals delivering legal operations support across the organization

  • Not only lead, but actively contribute to the work of the Sourcing & Analytics team, working with lawyers around the world in developing RFP materials, assessing proposals from law firms, developing alternative fee arrangements, and managing same through the life of a matter

  • Innovate by proactively evolving and improving on the pricing processes and systems that are in place today, to extend our position as a leader in the industry

  • Actively look at the services provided and assess where they can be improved, expanded, evolved or removed in order to deliver ever more efficient, cost-effective and innovative support

  • Develop metrics and systems to track and report on key aspects of legal operations delivery, and legal department delivery more generally

What you bring

The successful candidate will work closely with and be accountable for delivery of results to the Head of Legal Operations.

An energetic self-starter, you will have:

  • Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

  • At least 5+ years of experience in leading a pricing team in a large law firm

  • Experience with developing and tracking KPIs for legal teams

  • Experience in procurement and RFP development, and assessment

  • Strong team leadership skillset with excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills

  • Organizational abilities, with project, program and portfolio leadership skills, capable of setting and delivering on both short term deliverables, and longer term goals

  • Flexible nature and willingness to adapt and take on additional duties as the role evolves

  • Creative streak, proactively scanning the legal industry to identify new ways to do things, best practices to adopt and generally having an innovation mindset

  • Proven experience in managing and improving end to end processes and delivering in a complex, global and virtual environment

  • Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, with a demonstrated ability to deal with competing priorities and complex issues

  • Proven ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels in a complex management structure

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $314,000 per year.  Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.   

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives.  For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays.  Additional information on Shell's US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html.

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

  • Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

  • Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

  • Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

  • Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

  • Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

  • Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

  • Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase - our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

  • Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

  • Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

  • Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

  • Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in The United States

Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years, leading the sector in energy, petrochemicals and refined products.  Today, we provide millions of Americans with the energy needed to heat and cool their homes and power the economy. 

We operate in all 50 states, from our Deep Water platforms in the Gulf of America to the Pennsylvania Chemicals complex and our miles of pipelines throughout the US.

We reach our customers through our 13,000 branded retail stations, and we are number 1 in gasoline sales. We also own the #1 brand of motor oil in the U.S. - Pennzoil - made from natural gas.

We are excited to play a key role in the move to net carbon emissions while providing the oil and gas needed by society for many decades to come.

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