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Job Purpose and Impact

The Associate Contracts Lawyer will review, draft and negotiate moderately complex commercial contracts for the assigned areas. In this role, you will leverage the established forms, templates, playbooks and processes to review and draft standard and non-standard contracts, negotiate third party contracts and track legal matters and trends. You will partner with business team members and other lawyers and paralegals who provide counsel related to a variety of contracts for the company.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with members of the law team and clients to structure and execute moderately complex commercial transactions following the established procedures.
• Responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of global commercial contracts, with a primary focus on procurement agreements. This includes other contract categories such as intellectual property, transportation and warehousing services, consulting, distribution, external manufacturing, sales, information technology, and licensing agreements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and legal compliance.
• Provide leadership and support in one or more contract categories, including template, playbook and quality control oversight.
• Leverage systems for workflow management, tracking and communicating the status of legal matters.
• Apply general knowledge to support for the assigned contract categories, including template, playbook, quality control oversight and customer experience.
• Provide support on special projects as appropriate.
• Pursue professional development in support of the global contracts group, law and company priorities.
• You will work under minimal supervision and independently handle issues while referring only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Law
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Must have exposure to global commercial contracts and prior experience in contract management, including drafting, negotiation, and administration.
• Must have prior experience working in a contracts-related role within a corporate or Law Firm.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems and other technologies that support efficient contract service delivery and management.
• Experience working with global procurement agreements.
• Identify, evaluate and address issues of legal risk.