Associate Counsel - Commercial Transactions

About This Role

Support the Commercial Transactions team by acting as the subject matter expert on vendor transactions, negotiating contracts, and analyzing risks. Additionally, assist with customer commercial transactions and legal operations projects focused on process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Act as the principal legal support for vendor contracts by reviewing and negotiating them
• Communicate deadlines, requirements, and address contract-related issues with procurement, risk management, security, IT, and privacy teams
• Manage the legal queue of contracts for review and stakeholder/vendor communications
• Engage with other legal team members and vendor counsel in negotiations
• Suggest, work on, and lead improvements in legal processes, including collaborating with the procurement team on a procure-to-contract tool
• Manage the legal contract process in a CLM tool and create/update standard forms using genAI tools
• Review or prepare a variety of agreements, including customer agreements, providing focused and value-adding comments on key issues
• Respond to/negotiate or generate a challenging volume and variety of contracts, from straight-forward to complex
• Assist in the administration of the internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and triage questions
• Support the Legal and Legal Operations teams with projects, including customer commercial deals and process improvements

Requirements

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor)
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, and excellent communications skills
• Reasonable exposure to computer and software technology concepts
• Solid proficiency with MS Office and Salesforce
• Experience negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, consulting and professional services, sponsorship agreements, general services contracts, on-prem software contracts, equipment and supply contracts, statements of work, and purchase orders
• Experience working with procurement, internal stakeholders and business teams, negotiating contractual legal terms, and identifying and assessing contractual risks and impacts
• Ability to research and analyze legal issues

Qualifications

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor) with good grades from a good school
• Three or more years of high-quality relevant experience as part of a legal team

Nice to Have

• Background in information technology or procuring information technology
• Experience working as a litigator or part of a litigation team
• Experience working with contract management systems

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits