Remote Senior Contracts and Legal Manager

Summary

Join The Adaptavist Group as a Senior Contracts & Legal Manager and drive business as usual within the Contracts and Legal Operations group, managing day-to-day activities regarding contract review, negotiation, and management.

Requirements

• Exposure to contracts, particularly in sales and procurement environment, from pre-sales to contract closeout
• Abilitiy to confidently lead all legal negotiation and fully execute contract engagement with a client ( or potentially supplier or partner)
• Experience and understanding of analysing business processes for efficiencies
• Strong commercial acumen, and ability to critically assess transactions and identify business issues
• Use of enterprise software tools e.g. (Jira, Word, Excel, Google Sheets, HubSpot)
• Solid mechanical and analytical ability, and ability to break down problems
• Willing to learn, take on new challenges, and resolve them methodically
• Ability to work individually or across potentially geographically distributed teams
• Exposure to working across multiple countries and time zones is a plus
• Friendly and approachable – excellent interpersonal skills with international and cross-cultural experience
• A quick and efficient learner with strong forensic attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)
• Demonstrate the ability to work with deadlines and under pressure
• An ability to think innovatively and creatively
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills

Responsibilities

• Review and “redlining” of contracts, including resolution of challenges and queries from counterparties (such as clients)
• Signature of contracts of significant size, with recommendations to Head of Commercial Operations, and potentially COO and CEO for additional contracts
• Management of information related to contracts (clients, partners, suppliers), and within internal contractual IT systems. Knowledge management and enforcement of process
• Providing “peer reviews” of contract reviews that colleagues provide, and requesting such peer reviews to support a robust, quality-driven process
• Reviewing documentation that forms part of various strategic sales, partnerships, or acquisitions