Contracting Counsel Manager

Job Title: Contracting Counsel Manager

Career Level:7 Manager

Workforce:Corporate Functions

Skill Track:Legal

Specialty:Sales & Delivery Contracting

Contracting lawyers in our client's Legal organization coordinate and deliver legal, contract and commercial counsel in support of our client's business. Our Contracting lawyers identify, manage and mitigate contractual risk, ensure ethical behavior and compliance with laws and company policies, while providing guidance and negotiating contracts leveraging commercial and market relevant positions.

Job Summary:

Lead, structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions in a fast-paced corporate environment including: master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain, security, applied intelligence, systems integration and agile development. Advise senior company leadership on legal risks associated with transactions and understanding of the larger market. Manage and advise junior legal professionals in transactions and related matters.Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions while supporting Legal, Business and Sales Leadership in shaping and executing our client's market-facing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close our client's complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective
• Counsel, guide, train and support junior legal professionals
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company's transactional practices
• Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues
• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business
• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues
• Support, promote and implement our client Legal's initiatives
• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, an architect, as well as a business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology-enabled Contracting lawyer

Relationships:

Reports to: Contracting Lead

Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility

External Relationships: Our Client's client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Qualifications:

• LLB or JD (or equivalent)
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one South East Asian jurisdiction
• Minimum 6 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced inhouse role in a relevant industry
• Minimum of 3 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions
• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions independently
• Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements
• Understand basic principles of finance, accounting, marketing, and management
• Strong executive presence
• Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Our client is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Our client is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our client will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Our client encourages applicants of allages.