Analyst, Contract Life Cycle (CLM) & Legal Process Optimization (New York)

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This role will sit in Tapestry’s Legal Department, report to the VP & Deputy General Counsel and will support a global project across the company’s legal office in Europe, South East Asia, Japan and China and work with a number of cross-functional team in the U.S. and internationally.    It is based in Tapestry’s NYC corporate headquarters and is hybrid, in the office three days each week.

Contract Optimization Function:
The team’s work includes leveraging and building on Tapestry’s Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools, processes and workflows and working with internal cross-functional teams to support the efficient creation, negotiation, and execution of contracts.  The team creates and manages communications and training on contract-related information and the CLM, manages contract knowledge management and templates, ensures contract requirements are met, assists with managing and guiding contract requests through execution, and extracts and analyzes key data points about the contracting process and executed contracts and manages, shares and uses data to identify and build on efficiencies, evaluate workflows and monitor compliance with key requirements.  This team works with global cross-functional partners, particularly in the Legal and Procurement Departments, to track the status of contracts in process and – with a customer service mindset – guide internal teams with respect to contracting.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Key responsibilities of the Analyst, Contract Life Cycle (CLM) & Legal Process Optimization, role include:

• Serving as a super-user of our CLM tool (DocuSign), including managing intake, workflows, and reporting, and building out efficiencies and analytics.
• Creating and analyzing reporting relating to contracts.
• Drafting and negotiating lower-risk, high-frequency contracts to drive business value while identifying and mitigating risk.
• Coordinating and managing contracting playbooks, templates and other knowledge management tools and tracking review of Tapestry’s terms and conditions.
• Interpreting and assessing issues, risk, agreements and questions from internal teams to quickly provide a path that ensures a business or legal decision and helps to efficiently move contracting work forward.
• Collaborating closely with internal stakeholders in Tapestry’s international office (including those in Legal and Procurement) to ensure on-going building of efficient contracting processes are developed and followed.
• Serving as a central point of contact for contract workflows and ensuring contracts are executed efficiently and in accordance with Tapestry standards, business needs and timelines.
• Championing CLM and supporting training for Legal, Procurement and business teams.
• Developing and managing strategies, schedules and task lists to ensure assigned projects are accomplished on time.
• Providing training on CLM to the Legal and Procurement teams and ensuring use of the CLM continues to evolve and grow.
• Ensuring new contracts are developed in compliance with regulations and current playbooks.  ​
• Assisting with the administration of internal systems that support the drafting, negotiation, and execution of contracts and other documents. 
• Establishing supportive relationships with internal business partners and cross-functional support teams and providing information with a customer-service mindset.​
• Assisting with the resolution of