Associate Counsel - Commercial Transactions

About This Role

The Associate Counsel – Commercial Transactions will serve as the subject matter expert on vendor transactions and procurement activities, negotiating vendor contracts and analyzing associated risks. This role also supports customer commercial transactions and legal operations projects.

Responsibilities

• Act as the principal legal support for vendor contracts by reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts.
• Communicate deadlines, requirements, and address contract-related issues with procurement, risk management, security, IT, and privacy teams.
• Manage 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 process improvements, including collaborating with procurement on procure-to-contract tools and managing legal contracts in a CLM tool.
• Update or create standard forms or variations and create documentation for processes utilizing genAI tools.
• Review and prepare a variety of agreements, including supporting customer agreements.
• Quickly and accurately respond to, negotiate, or generate a challenging volume and variety of contracts.
• Assist in the administration of the internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and triage questions.
• Support Legal and Legal Operations teams with projects, including customer commercial deals and efficiency improvements.

Requirements

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor) with good grades from a good school.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor)
• 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