Are you a data-driven problem solver who loves turning numbers into meaningful insights? Join our Legal Operations team as a Legal Ops Analyst II, where you'll play a key role in helping us manage and optimize legal spend while driving smarter, more efficient ways of working. If dashboards, trends, and problem-solving excite you, this role is for you! Position Type: Full-Time Starting Salary: $93,250 Salary Increases: Year 2 - $ 98,250 | Year 3 - $103,500 Work Location: Aurora, IL This role is eligible to participate in ALDI's Legal Hybrid Work Program, which requires work in-office at least 2 days per month. Duties and Responsibilities: Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation. • Tracks legal spend, including oversight of e-billing system, invoice review for compliance with outside counsel guidelines, and identification of cost-saving opportunities. • Develops, maintains, and reports on legal spend metrics, including budgets, forecasts, accruals, and variance analyses to support financial transparency and decision-making. • Collaborates with Legal, Finance, and external partners to enhance spend governance, improve vendor performance, and drive process efficiencies related to budgeting and outside counsel management. • Adopts and supports new tools and technology to optimize legal efficiency and ensure compliance. • Develops metrics/dashboards and designed business intelligence systems to monitor performance against goals and targets. • Assists with strategic cross-departmental and cross-functional projects to achieve key legal initiatives and departmental goals. • Assists with various workstreams for department technology initiatives including contract management, book of knowledge management, corporate governance management and others. • Supports programs that optimize sharing and collaboration across the department. • Assists with document preparation and management for the legal department, including distilling technical data and information into dynamic presentations. • Updates and maintains all legal file management. • Develops and coordinates the rollout of periodic employee trainings on relevant legal topics/systems. • Conducts research and analytical studies on a variety of programs and issues; formulates reports. • Manages projects from their assignment through implementation. • Collaborates with team members and communicates relevant information to leadership. • Upholds the security and confidentiality of documents and data within area of responsibility. • Other duties as assigned. Job Qualifications: ALDI Acts Competencies: Perform within ALDI Acts competencies as outlined below. • Collaborates and Cooperates with Team: Commits to and supports a collaborative and high-performing working environment with peers and managers. • Drives for Success: Seizes opportunities and proactively takes concrete actions to complete tasks. Goes the "extra mile" and persistently overcomes obstacles to improve outputs. • Focuses on the Customer: Seeks to understand underlying customer needs to create value. Drives the team to maintain focus on customers. • Focuses on Quality: Takes an efficient, analytical approach to solve problems or produce outputs in an accurate and timely manner. Ensures quality and accuracy of results. • Plans and Prioritizes: Sets priorities and organizes information in order to efficiently and effectively "get the job done". Job-specific Competencies: Knowledge/Skills/Abilities • Consistently demonstrates the Mindsets, ALDI Acts Competencies and Professional Skills (M.A.P.) as outlined for the role. • Gives attention to detail and follows instruction. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Effective time management; maximizes productivity. • Prepares written materials to meet purpose and audience. • Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external parties. • Ability to stay organized and multi-task in a professional and efficient manner. • Ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures. • Problem-solving skills. Education and Experience: • Bachelor's Degree required. • A minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in Legal required. • Extensive prior experience with Microsoft 365, project management, and matter management tools (Onit) preferred. • Prior in-house Law experience preferred. • Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge. Physical Requirements: • Work may be performed in an office, remote office, or a combination of both where a computer and office equipment may be used as needed to perform duties. • Regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, stand and move from one area to another. • Constantly and repeatedly use keyboard/mouse. • Occasionally required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs. Travel: • Minimal travel required as needed for job related duties such as training, project work and administrative tasks.