What eDiscovery contributes to Cardinal Health

The eDiscovery team at Cardinal Health is a specialized team of eDiscovery professionals, with backgrounds in Legal, IT, Project Management, and Data Analytics. This team is tasked with driving the enterprise-wide global management of all phases of the eDiscovery lifecycle in a defensible, proactive, consistent, repeatable, and cost-effective manner. The team is responsible for data collections, preservation, and transfer practices for the company globally as well as the development and proliferation of Cardinal Health’s eDiscovery best practices across internal and external case teams and eDiscovery vendors.

The Senior Advisor, eDiscovery role is a non-attorney role that directly overseas the management of the internally hosted eDiscovery platform and associated portfolio and provides strategic oversight and value-driven efficiency across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) for all litigation matters. The eDiscovery team, including this role, reports into the eDiscovery Director. This position routinely collaborates with internal and external legal professionals and eDiscovery professionals as well as other functions at Cardinal Health (e.g., Compliance, IT, Information Governance).

We are looking for a strategic self-starter willing to learn and collaborate in a dynamic, evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner and consult with internal counsel, outside counsel, and vendors on all aspects of the EDRM, driving forward E-Discovery best practices
• Manage Cardinal Health’s internally hosted eDiscovery platform including processing, data culling, email threading, predictive analytics, and workflows, tagging layout design and implementation, custom field creation, batch creation, search creation, production sweeps and QC, and production creation and transfer, with an eye towards efficiency, consistency, and driving best practices
• Develop, modify, and implement practical eDiscovery workflows, maximizing efficiency and accuracy while mitigating risk, focusing on automation and proactivity for the department holistically
• Effectively communicate timelines and set appropriate expectations for all stakeholders
• Assist in the oversight and management of eDiscovery vendors and cases hosted externally
• Assist in case migration strategy, design, and implementation
• Assist in the implementation of Cardinal Health eDiscovery best practices both internally and across external partners, such as vendors and outside counsel
• Stay up to date on innovative and effective eDiscovery vendors, workflows, and tools
• Maximize and capture value and cost savings across EDRM
• Perform risk, efficiency, and cost assessments of eDiscovery case processes, technologies, and eDiscovery vendors to proactively manage risk points

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience
• 8 years of eDiscovery Project Management/Consultant experience, preferred
• Industry Certifications are a plus: Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA), Project Management Professional (PMP), Brainspace, etc.

• Strong understanding of and experience with eDiscovery technology like M365, Relativity, Nuix, Brainspace, Reveal, Logikcull, etc
• Strong technical and consultative experience with managing Electronically Stored Information (ESI) within the EDRM lifecycle including staging, processing, culling, email threading, clustering, communication analysis, machine learning, predictive modeling, etc.
• Experience consulting on the effective collection, processing, culling, and review of various data types outside of email, including Teams, Mobile Messaging, Slack, Salesforce, Structured Data, etc.
• Self-motivated and independent, but able to discern when matters should be escalated and when further guidance is needed
• Strong understanding of eDiscovery best practices, process, and impact within full litigation lifecycle
• Experience consulting with outside counsel and law firm clients
• Ability to think strategically, proactively, and holistically
• Superior organizational and problem-solving skills
• Project management experience, specifically managing multiple high exposure and fast-paced projects at the same time
• Ability to triage and manage time-sensitive matters simultaneously and effectively
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, including ability to translate legal requirements as well as technical aspects of processing, forensic collections, and form of production issues to the business
• Organizational acumen with the ability to tailor recommendations based on audience

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
• Projects may have significant and long-term impact
• Provides solutions which may set precedent
• Independently determines method for completion of new projects
• Receives guidance on overall project objectives
• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
• 5% travel is anticipated

Anticipated salary range: $97,700 - $139,600

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Health insurance, 401k Contributions, Paid Time Off, Vacation, STD/LTD

Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.