Director of Practice Group Strategy & Operations to serve as a senior operating partner to Practice Group Leaders (PGLs) and Practice Groups, helping translate firm and Practice Group priorities into clear plans, operating routines, decisions, and sustained execution. Reporting to the Senior Director of Practice Group Strategy & Operations, the Director provides Practice Group leadership with integrated support, visibility, and follow-through.
This position will reside in either our Boston or Philadelphia office with a hybrid in-office/remote working schedule.
Responsibilities include:Practice Group Strategy & Operating Planning
- Partner with Practice Group leadership to translate firm and Practice Group priorities into practical strategic and operating plans, with clear outcomes, priorities, ownership, measures, resource requirements, and accountability.
- Maintain an executive-level view of progress and adjust plans as priorities and circumstances evolve.
Integrated Practice Group Operations & Annual Processes
- Maintain a coordinated view of the Practice Group's priorities, initiatives, recurring processes, commitments, risks, and deadlines.
- Establish an effective operating cadence and coordinate participation in firmwide processes, providing leadership with clear visibility into progress, issues, and required decisions.
Governance, Meetings, and Decision Support
- Support effective Practice Group governance by structuring leadership meetings and decision processes, preparing concise executive materials, coordinating required information and participants, documenting decisions, and ensuring appropriate follow-through and escalation.
Cross-Functional Integration, Risk, and Change
- Serve as the primary integrator between Practice Group leadership and firm functions, coordinating resources, information, decisions, and implementation across areas such as Finance, Talent, Business Development, Technology, AI, Knowledge Management, and Research.
- Identify barriers and risks to drive improvements and adoption of significant initiatives.
Practice Operations Center of Excellence and Team Leadership
- Apply and improve common Practice Group Strategy & Operations standards and practices.
- Share lessons and reusable approaches across practices and, where assigned, lead and develop Practice Group Strategy & Operations personnel and support effective resource deployment and continuity.
- Lead by example; establish clear expectations; set direction, priorities; delegate to ensure work levels are balanced and at an appropriate level; and resolve internal staff issues.
- Facilitate the development of staff by providing opportunities and support with timely feedback; regularly coach, evaluate, and recognize staff performance and accomplishments.
- Establish department budget; seek to improve department efficiency and reduce expenses by streamlining operations.
Experience and qualifications:- A bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or, equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Progressive experience translating strategy into execution, coordinating complex operations and annual processes, and partnering with senior business or practice leaders in a matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing strategic and operating plans, governance and review cadences, executive decision materials, performance measures, and complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience in a large law firm or similarly complex global professional services organization is preferred, together with the ability to work effectively across offices, regions, time zones, and organizational boundaries and to travel periodically as required.
- Working understanding of law firm or professional services operations and the ability to connect firm strategy, Practice Group priorities, practice economics, talent, client and market considerations, and operational execution.
- Demonstrated ability to translate broad priorities into clear outcomes, plans, milestones, responsibilities, measures, decisions, resource requirements, and operating routines.
- Strong leadership skills, including the ability to lead complex work and select and onboard talent, delegate, coach, and lead effectively.
- Exceptional judgment, discretion, and institutional awareness when handling sensitive information.
- Strong service orientation and demonstrated humility, accountability, curiosity, openness to feedback, and reliable follow-through in a high-expectation environment.
- Ability to build trusted relationships, to create alignment among PGL's, partners, professional staff, Practice Group Strategy & Operations colleagues, and functional leaders while respecting decision rights and functional ownership.
- Ability to synthesize complex quantitative and qualitative information into concise, decision-oriented communications, balanced recommendations, and clear executive presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change, manage ambiguity and competing priorities, and sustain momentum across offices, regions, time zones, and organizational boundaries.
- Strong organizational, project-management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to establish practical governance, anticipate dependencies and risks.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business and professional publications, prepare business correspondence, proposals and reports, effectively present information.
- Maintaining an in-office presence is important to delivering services through an integrated and collaborative work culture. Firm policy requires this role to work in the office three days per week, as scheduled by the manager, unless client demands, or another approved accommodation is in place.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Advanced proficiency with enterprise-approved AI and automation tools used by the firm, together with the judgment to apply them responsibly to analysis, planning, knowledge and workflow improvement.
Qualified candidates must apply online by visiting our website at www.morganlewis.com and selecting "Careers."
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For positions in Boston, MA, the salary range for this position is: $174,600.00 - $250,000.00.
The base salary or hourly wage range for this position will be determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to prior experience, relevant expertise, current business needs, and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances. Additionally, salary or hourly wages may be only part of the total compensation package. The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will position" and the firm reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, firm or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
