Senior Contracts & Legal Manager

Working at The Adaptavist Group
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, Monday.com and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited vacation - 401k - Adaptavist matches up to 4%- Flexible working- Udemy online learning- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave- Employee assistance programme- Volunteer days- Healthcare through Trinet including Medical, Dental, Vision, EAP- Free online streaming service subscription

About the role
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.
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