# Director, Business Operations

**Company**: Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $202,230 - $242,160 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is seeking a Director, Business Operations to serve as a senior business and strategic operations leader for the firm's nearly $1 billion Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property Practice.

The Director provides strategic counsel, operational leadership, and oversight of key practice management initiatives that support the practice's global growth, profitability, and long-term success.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Partner with practice leadership to develop, execute, and monitor strategic priorities that support growth, profitability, and market leadership.

- Serve as a trusted advisor on business performance, operational strategy, organisational effectiveness, and resource allocation.

- Lead strategic planning activities, business reviews, governance processes, and practice-wide initiatives.

- Develop executive reporting, key performance metrics, and business insights that support data-driven decision-making.

- Drive operational excellence through process improvement, workflow optimisation, and scalable business solutions.

- Lead transformational initiatives involving technology, artificial intelligence, automation, pricing, legal project management, and service delivery innovation.

- Establish governance structures, success measures, and accountability frameworks to ensure effective execution of strategic initiatives.

- Facilitate leadership alignment, communications, and change management efforts across a complex global organisation.

- Partner with finance and business leaders to evaluate financial performance, identify opportunities, and support strategic investment decisions.

- Develop executive communications, presentations, strategic updates, and stakeholder engagement plans that advance practice priorities.

- Build strong partnerships across firm leadership and business services functions to drive collaboration and achieve business objectives.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, JD, master's degree, or other advanced degree preferred.

- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience within a law firm, professional services, consulting, or similarly complex global organisation.

- Demonstrated success advising senior executives and influencing strategic business decisions.

- Significant experience leading large-scale strategic initiatives, organisational transformation, and change management efforts.

- Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional programs and build strong executive stakeholder relationships.

- Strong understanding of professional services business models, practice management, financial performance, and profitability drivers.

- Exceptional strategic thinking, business judgement, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

- Executive presence with excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management abilities.

- Ability to lead through ambiguity, drive alignment, and deliver results in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

- Experience supporting Regulatory or Intellectual Property practices preferred.

**Work Expectations:** This is an exempt position requiring the flexibility to support business priorities, leadership initiatives, global stakeholders, and client needs across multiple time zones. This role requires a regular in-office presence, consistent with the firm's expectation of four days per week in the office.

In D.C., the expected base salary range for this role is $202,230 - $242,160 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- business operations
- leadership
- communication
- change management

### Nice to have
- MBA
- JD
- master's degree

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