Job Description

As a Certified Paralegal & Contract Specialist, you will play a critical role in drafting, negotiating, and managing contracts to support business objectives. You will be responsible for ensuring contracts are structured to mitigate risks, comply with regulatory requirements, and align with our business strategy.

1. Draft, review, and analyze a broad range of contract types for clients and service providers (e.g., Master Agreements, bespoke general terms and conditions - including governmental contracts - amendments, order forms, and tender documents), ensuring legal compliance and protecting client’s interests.
2. Act as a key point of contact to internal stakeholders.
3. Lead and support contracting negotiations, proactively addressing legal risks.
4. Participating in the sales process of legal tech products, providing legal expertise and support to the sales team.
5. Maintain and optimize contract management processes within client’s contract lifecycle management system, ensuring accurate filing, tracking, and reporting. Assist in implementing best practices for contract efficiency and compliance.
6. Conduct research to identify trends, emerging risks, and potential legal issues in contracts and procurement processes. Monitor updates in applicable laws and regulations.
7. Maintain a high level of responsiveness to internal stakeholders, prioritizing tasks effectively, balancing multiple contract negotiations, and making sound, risk-based decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

1. Minimum undergraduate degree in business, law, or relevant field
2. Certified Paralegal
3. 3-5 years of paralegal experience, preferably in a corporate environment reporting to General Counsel
4. Significant experience with LinkSquares CLM required
5. Demonstrable skill in negotiating and understanding contract provisions and risk allocation
6. Culture fit is an essential requirement. We will favor candidates who are not only open minded, but who embrace innovative approaches to the delivery of legal services
7. Effective verbal and written communication and presentation styles to interact with diverse audiences, including external customers, senior management, company and outside attorneys and business associates
8. Ability to operate within a matrixed management environment
9. Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and work effectively and efficiently to meet deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
10. Strong work ethic with the initiative to work independently
11. High level of integrity supported by sound judgment and ethics

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