As a Senior Contracts & Legal Manager, you’ll be responsible for driving business within our Contracts and Legal Operations (known as the Commercial Operations) group. You will manage day to day activities regarding contract review, negotiation and management, liaising with various business entities, clients, subcontractors and suppliers. You’ll be expected to lead engagements in the US and Canada, but also support engagements that may be conducted in other geographies. This role will see you accept accountability for legal contracts and advise the Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations on unusual and exceptional legal requirements.
The Commercial Operations team is focused on enabling organic and inorganic growth through contract management and negotiations, compliance management, management of legal and related services and operations, and management and mitigation of risks for the company. As a Senior Commercial and Legal Manager on the team, you will work closely with all parts of the business in this regard – including executive management, sales, professional and client services, IT and security, finance, marketing, facilities, and product development. You will be responsible for conducting various activities that help the broader Commercial Operations group in its work, supporting and facilitating the work of the team through a strong process driven orientation.
What you’ll be doing:
- Reviewing and redlining of contracts, including resolution of challenges and queries from counterparties (such as clients).
- Independently negotiating legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts (NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, software purchasing agreements, etc.)
- Signature of contracts of significant size, with recommendations to Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations
- Managing information related to contracts (clients, partners, suppliers), and within internal contractual IT systems. Knowledge management and enforcement of process.
- Working with process specialists (Legal Operations Managers) who manage IT systems, process, internal corporate change programs, and knowledge repositories (i.e. document repositories, FAQs, and wikis) associated with contracts and legal support.
- Providing “peer reviews” of departmental contract redlines, and requesting such peer reviews to support a robust, quality-driven process.
- Reviewing documentation that forms part of various strategic sales, partnerships, or acquisitions.
- Balancing risk mitigation with Adaptavist’s global strategy and priorities.
- Working collaboratively to provide continuous improvement of cross-team training, playbooks, contract templates, and legal processes.
What we’re looking for:
- Exposure to contracts, particularly in sales and procurement environment, from pre-sales to contract closeout.
- Ability to confidently lead and fully execute contract engagement with a client (or potentially supplier or partner), and on some occasions provide related advisory to or collaborate with executive level colleagues in Adaptavist.
- Experience and understanding of analyzing business processes for efficiencies.
- Ability to critically assess transactions and identify business issues.
- Use of enterprise software tools (examples might include Jira, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Sheets, HubSpot, etc). 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 organizational and prioritization skills.
- Strong sense of character, honesty, and teamwork.
- Exposure to both legal and contract work in an operational context.
- We have a couple of desirable skills but don’t worry about applying if you don’t have these: experience in addressing contractual issues in cloud, data security, privacy, and intellectual property matters; experience with third-party software resale, SaaS, cloud computing, and software sales; a familiarity with Atlassian products and related services; any experience with contract negotiation and regulatory requirements for US Federal or State clients.
At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.