Posted by Ernst & Young Global Limited (Ernst & Young or simply EY), is a British multinational professional services network with headquarters in London, United Kingdom. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world.
EY provides consulting, assurance, tax, and transaction services. It was founded in the year 1989.
Along with Deloitte, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, it is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms.
Position Name
Manager – Contract Drafting
Role and Responsibilities
Role
The candidate will, subject to EY GDS’ contracting model with clients in global jurisdictions, serve as a senior resource acting as an extension of client in-house legal team providing contract review and negotiation assistance to clients and as an escalation point and source of expertise for the team regarding best practice in the negotiation of technology-related procurement and sales contracts.
As a Manager Contract Drafting, you will be developing and setting up solutions for related managed services for new work or new clients. Also, serve as a trainer and subject matter expert to assist and build on the CLM team’s framework and best practices for training and playbooks.
The Manager, Contracting Attorney serves as a unique opportunity to scale up your contracting expertise and build, assist and leverage a tested delivery model that enables globally integrated, cost-efficient teams to deliver high quality, sophisticated legal work to meet the needs of multinational corporations.
Responsibilities
- Review, redline, and negotiate sales or procurement contracts for software, software as a service, data licenses, services, or goods or other subject-matter on client paper or counterparty paper across a variety of contracting structures based on playbooks or other documents reflecting client contracting positions or otherwise
- Communicate and collaborate with client legal and business stakeholders to build relationships or provide support to mitigate identified risks in the contract language being negotiated and ensure the commercial objectives are fulfilled within the stipulated timeframe
- Ensure service delivery in accordance with the agreed project scope, ensuring overall client satisfaction and compliance with SLAs, and actively identifying ways to fulfill client needs
- Make available the benefit of technology-related contracting experience by being available to quality check work, provide required guidance, act as an escalation point or mentor or coach.
- Train and contribute to training and building of playbooks and/or training materials or other knowledge artifacts leveraging and supplementing LMS best practices and approaches to training.
- Drive the development of solutions and business development for new clients by contributing relevant insights based on contracting experience and exposure to both needs and best practices of multinational organizations.
- Support and contribute to the expansion and strengthening of the LMS CLM team’s distinct culture.
Skills and Attributes
- Strong communication, writing, and interpersonal skills at all levels, including presentation skills, both formal and informal
- Highly responsive to the needs of both internal (including reporting managers, other project managers, and team members) as well as external clients
- Problem-solving, analytical, and some experience of project management skills are desirable
- Computer skills including a working knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree and a Law degree (LLB or LLM) from accredited, reputable institutions
- Attorney with 8-10 years of relevant contract review, redlining and negotiation experience (preferably in a multinational corporation, in-house legal team, or law firm handling similar work)
- Strong subject matter expertise; deep knowledge of and experience with the review, redlining, and negotiation of contracts especially technology-related contracts on the procurement and sales side.
- Strong Contract negotiation expertise (both legal and business issues). Specific experience in training is attractive but not essential.
Competencies
Contract Lifecycle Management technology is attractive, but not essential.
The candidate should have proven capabilities in driving multiple projects, with exceptional client management and project management experience.
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