Sr. Paralegal - Contracts

About the Job:

The Sr. Paralegal – Contracts and Corporate Governance will manage MMNA’s legal contract workflow that will exist across all internal departments. Under the direction of counsel, you will help to reduce risk across our business transactions while also driving the vision needed to manage an entire contract workflow from start to finish. You will work on other high level legal projects, such as compliance audits, intellectual property matters, marketing matters, and more. In addition, you will manage the MMNA Executive Committee as its Secretary, and work on governance and compliance projects related to regulatory adherence, policies, and internal controls. If you are a Legal professional with contract and project management skills seeking a role that will give you the opportunity to work on a broad variety of types of matters, and with teams across an organization, you may be the right person!

As a Sr. Paralegal, You Will:

Contract Management

• Provide legal support across MMNA by, under the direction of counsel, assisting in the development, preparation, and review of agreements, amendments, and addenda, in furtherance of supporting strategic business plans while maintaining appropriate risk tolerance.
• Serve as the first point of contact for legal review on contract matters, inbound contract-related requests, and non-standard contract term requests.
• Support the management of forms, playbooks, and procedures. Manage and maintain MMNA’s form contract and template repositories.
• Analyze contract requirements to ensure compliance with insurance, corporate governance, regulatory, and legal requirements, as well as the Company’s data privacy and information governance requirements.
• Collaborate and work cross-functionally with all departments, including Sales Operations, Aftersales, Finance, and IT. Educate and advise business partners with respect to contract risks.
• Implement and own MMNA’s contract workflow that will exist across all departments. Strategically reduce risk across our business transactions while maintaining the vision to bring a contract workflow process to completion from start to finish.
• Manage, track, and organize contract flow, amendments, addenda, exhibits, etc. Manage the contract administration lifecycle, including responding to and tracking inbound requests, routing requests to other departments for response, and maintaining the confidentiality of all work product. Create and maintain procedural documentation for supported processes and initiatives.
• Assist in the RFP process, analyzing potential contracting issues with participating vendors.
• Conduct formal and informal training to business partners on contracting negotiation and management best practices.

Corporate Governance and Compliance Management

• Serve as the Secretary of the Executive Committee, which meets (almost) weekly and on an ad hoc basis as needed. Ensure the timely collection and distribution of proposals, keep the meetings on schedule, and take/retain meeting minutes. Assist the Corporate Secretary with Board of Directors meetings from time to time.
• Work cross-functionally with the Legal team, the Human Resources team, the Internal Audit team, and other departments to drive large-scale compliance activities and improvements. Provide compliance support for Marketing, Intellectual Property, Finance, and other projects on the corporate/business transactions side of the Legal Department.
• Work closely with the North America Department at our parent company, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, and the executive team, to ensure appropriate approvals under the Company’s Delegation of Authority are obtaine