Honeywell

Sr Legal Operations Specialist, Legal Transformation Project Manager

Honeywell$90K — $120K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in cross-functional project coordination in corporate or similar environments
  • Proven ability to build and manage comprehensive project plans and timelines
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder updates and accountability
  • Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, finance, communications, or related field
  • Experience in legal operations or corporate legal environment is highly valued
  • Project management certification (PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile) or equivalent experience preferred
  • Familiarity with project management tools like Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or Jira

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and support Legal Transformation projects to enhance operational effectiveness
  • Define project scopes, success criteria, and deliverables to ensure accountability and measurable outcomes
  • Develop project plans and maintain detailed logs for risks, status, and resource allocation
  • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across various departments to troubleshoot issues and keep projects on schedule
  • Track project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies
  • Prepare concise updates and materials for leadership review to ensure visibility into project status
  • Lead change management and training activities for successful adoption of new processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits package including subsidized health insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Support for educational advancement and parental leave
  • Paid time off for various personal needs and 12 paid holidays
  • 401(k) match and disability insurance options
Full Job Description
Job Description

As Sr Legal Operations Specialist, Legal Transformation, you will coordinate and support projects that improve how Honeywell's Corporate Legal function operates. Your work will span legal process optimization, communications, financial operations, project governance, and global operating model initiatives. Representative projects include building legal project governance routines, improving legal team communications, supporting annual operating planning, and creating reusable tools for legal teams. You will manage project planning, execution, stakeholder coordination, and delivery for Legal Transformation initiatives in partnership with Honeywell's legal function.

You will report to the Senior Director of Legal Operations and work from Honeywell's Charlotte, NC or Phoenix, AZ office on a hybrid schedule. The role may require occasional coordination across global time zones and limited travel for project, team, or leadership meetings. You will partner with Legal leadership, HR, Communications, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to define project scope, manage execution, track risks, and communicate progress through completion. This role requires a project manager who can bring structure to initiatives, work effectively across functions, and support the execution of legal operations plans.

In this role, success means Legal Transformation initiatives have clear plans, visible accountability, timely decisions, and practical tools that help Honeywell's Legal function operate more effectively across global teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Support the definition of project scope, success criteria, milestones, owners, dependencies, and deliverables to track accountability, measurable outcomes, and visible progress
  • Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resource models, budget inputs, risk and issue logs, status reports, and executive-ready materials
  • Maintain project governance routines, including meeting cadences, escalation paths, and executive review materials
  • Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across Legal, Finance, HR, Communications, IT, Procurement, and other functional teams to keep projects on track, resolve blockers, and prepare materials for leadership review
  • Track project progress against milestones, identify risks and issues early, escalate decisions when needed, and drive mitigation plans to closure
  • Track project metrics, adoption measures, and deliverable status to report on progress of Legal Transformation initiatives
  • Prepare concise project updates, dashboards, leadership summaries, and stakeholder communications that give legal leaders and cross-functional partners clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and next steps
  • Support change management and adoption activities for Legal Transformation initiatives, including stakeholder readiness, training logistics, communications, and adoption tracking
  • Facilitate post-project reviews, capture lessons learned, and convert them into reusable templates, playbooks, and process improvements for the Legal function
  • 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 support Legal financial operations, including subscription management, spend tracking, and support for the annual operating plan
  • Support legal and business stakeholders in maintaining and improving legal processes, including standard workflows, governance routines, and implementation tracking
  • Provide project management guidance to legal team members on planning, accountability, risk management, and effective status reporting
  • Develop and improve project management resources, including templates, playbooks, dashboards, meeting routines, and reporting tools that help the Legal function execute projects consistently


CORE SKILLS
  • Project planning and execution
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Change management
  • Process improvement
  • Operational organization and attention to detail
  • Comfort working across global teams


Qualifications

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL

In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit: click here

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting date: June 30, 2026

YOU MUST HAVE
  • 3+ years of experience supporting or coordinating cross-functional projects or programs in a corporate, professional services, legal operations, finance, HR, IT, or similar environment
  • Experience building and managing project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risk and issue logs, status reports, and leadership-ready materials
  • Ability to communicate clearly with project stakeholders, translate project details into concise updates, and support accountability across teams


WE VALUE
  • Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, communications, finance, operations, information systems, or a related field
  • PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or other project management certification, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in legal operations or corporate legal environment
  • Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, or similar tools


About Honeywell

Honeywell Aerospace is an American company that manufactures aircraft engines, avionics, auxiliary power units (APUs), and other aviation products. The company’s product portfolio includes space equipment, turbine engines, auxiliary power units, brakes, wheels, synthetic vision, runway safety systems and other avionics. President Barack Obama awarded a Honeywell employee the National Medal of Technology for his contributions to air flight safety technology. The company also owns a number of patents related to NextGen technology, aircraft windshields, turbochargers, and more. Honeywell Aerospace was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Net Income
$4.7 billion
Founded
1906
5 Year Trend
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$32.6 billion
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