What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Legal Operations Specialist, Legal Transformation Project Manager position at Honeywell?
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