Contracts Manager

As a strategic business partner, we pride ourselves in providing business-minded, innovative and world-class legal services with a proven track record of demonstrating our value to the organization and therefore contributing to the ambitious objectives of our company.

As a reflection of our continued growth, we are looking for a Contracts Manager, reporting to the Americas Lead Counsel. The Contracts Manager will be primarily responsible for negotiating Vendor agreements but will also have the opportunity to contribute to a variety of other legal initiatives, and will work on complex legal issues with a team of lawyers, paralegals and a variety of other business teams located around the world.

This position can be office based or remote.

Your Impact

You will have an amazing opportunity to play a key role in supporting the company’s rapid growth.

As a legal team, we strive to empower each team member to work on important company initiatives and to develop skills in each individual’s areas of interest. We value and encourage independent thought and initiative – if you have a great idea for an improvement, we’ll support you to make it a reality!

Your Day-to-day Responsibilities

• Legal support for Centric Software’s rapidly growing sales team, primarily in the Americas, where you will structure, draft and negotiate Centric’s in-bound (Vendor) agreements, for purchases such as technology (Software License Agreements, Cloud/SaaS Agreements, OEMs/collaboration agreements)
• Negotiate a variety of other agreements, including NDAs and Customer agreements
• Contribute in the development and roll-out of legal enablement,
• Assist with collections matters and commercial disputes
• Lead and/or collaborate on team initiatives, such as Compliance, Privacy, etc
• Keep up to date on latest developments in laws, regulations and industry trends applicable to software as a service, hosted services, on-premise software, mobile applications, and product lifecycle management, including data protection laws, consumer protection laws, anti-corruption regulations, anti-trust laws, and other guidance from relevant agencies and advise business teams of applicable risks
• Contribute to the transformation of the legal department’s journey to becoming a world class legal function by working on initiatives such as creating accessible and understandable legal documents, implementing contract automation (including implementation of our new contracts management system), processes and tools, privacy compliance and other initiatives
  
  

Your background:

• You have at least 5 years of transactional legal experience with an emphasis on contract negotiations, at a law firm and/or in-house
• You demonstrate strong attention to detail and pride yourself on providing high quality work
• You are able to juggle multiple projects simultaneously, and meet demanding deadlines without sacrificing quality in a multi-cultural, diverse and high-paced environment
• You are self-motivated and can work autonomously, but know when to escalate issues and be thoughtful in asking questions
• You possess a pragmatic and business-oriented approach to problem solving and the flexibility to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to listen, and you don’t take yourself too seriously
• You have excellent written & oral communication skills.
• J.D Degree and a state bar member in good standing
  
  

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.

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