What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contracting Advisor position at Motion Recruitment?
Our client, one of the world's largest investment companies, is actively looking for a Contracting Advisor to join their team in Malvern, PA! This role is onsite hybrid 3x a week so local candidates are required.
***This is a 6 month contract with the opportunity to extend or convert based on performance***
This Contracting Advisor will be responsible for performing third party supplier legal drafting and contracting work! This role will primarily focus on reviewing, drafting and negotiating IT procurement contracts.
Responsibilities
- Efficiently review, draft, and negotiate contracts from a commercial perspective in collaboration with the Office of General Counsel
- Interpret and educate key stakeholders about commercial and legal requirements, obligations, and risk exposures to key stakeholders in support of the negotiation process
- Ability to communicate contract terms concisely in plain meaning to business units and partners, including requirements, obligations, and risk exposures
- Identify areas of risk, including information security, intellectual property infringement, financial and privacy exposure to be reviewed by third party stakeholders (such as InfoSec, Insurance, and Privacy)
- Follow documented contracting processes and procedures, including engaging key stakeholders and leveraging technical understanding of the contracting process
- Agility to work efficiently to ensure contracts are timely negotiated and executed accurately
- Ability to understand business groups requirements and ensures contract language meets requirements
Required Skills & Experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required
- Law Degree/J.D. required
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a fast-paced commercial contracting environment, including negotiating legal terms of contracts
- IT contracts experience
- Ability to lead commercial contract negotiations