Job Description

• Review and prepare third party contracts in accordance with company's policy
• Perform steps in basic contract cycle:
• Defining Scope & Business Requirements: The Contracts Associate engages with the Requester and Sourcing Manager to define the Requester's business requirements/needs for the contract.
• Contract drafting: Once scope is defined and all requirements have been gathered, the Contracts Associate drafts a MSA/Statement of Work
• Review Process: The Contracts Associate presents the draft contract to the Requester,supplier, and Legal team for review and approval (in that order). Incorporates any requested changes, then routes to client's Legal for final review/stamping, then to supplier for signature.
• Facilitation between Legal Teams: Where differences exist between supplier and client's preferred Legal terms, Contracts Associate may be asked to play the middle-man and exchange information between both parties. Must be able to understand and summarize each party's position.
• Tracking all existing contracts and working with requesters to determine when contract amendments (renewals) are necessary
• 6 months-1+ years of work experience in contracts management.

Qualifications

Law Graduate

Additional Information

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Contracting Functional Skills:
• Ability to draft moderate to complex, non-routine contractual agreements
• Ability to review supplier proposals and identify risk and unfavorable business or legal terms proposed
• Ability to convert ambiguous and/or informal language often contained within proposals or internal requirements documents into tightly-defined contract language
• Ability to perform contracting strategically in order to reduce contract risk, minimize administrative effort
• Familiarity with Legal language/terms
• Use of independent judgment and creativity applied to resolution of contract issues
• Business Fundamentals:
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong writing and grammar skills; ability to write clearly and concisely
• Strong interpersonal skills, must be willing to regularly engage in-person and over the phone with internal stakeholders and suppliers
• Excellent internal and external negotiation skills

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ?25,000.00 - ?40,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Schedule:

• Night shift

Experience:

• total work: 1 year (Preferred)