Legal Counsel

Job Description:

 

Experience required:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant and recent commercial transactions experience in a consultancy and/or tech outsourcing work environment (i.e., law firm or corporate legal department).
• Demonstrated success in complex contract review, drafting and negotiation for sales/outsource transactions involving technology products/services, including licensing/IP related terms.
• Experience with responsibility for all aspects of commercial transactions, including basic financials and all non-pricing business issues and contract terms.
• Experience with all phases of sales/outsource contracting from pre-contract Requests for Proposals/Bids to contract negotiation/execution and post-contract legal support.
• Experience supporting a professional, outside sales force in technology transactions.
• Successful record of interacting with sophisticated enterprise customers and vendors, and their third-party representatives, as transaction counterparties.
• Prior in-house, management, and international experience preferred.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead commercial transactions to closure in prudent and expeditious manner.
• Review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of contract terms.
• Provide risk assessment and commercial legal advice.
• Identify or collaborate to create solutions to deal roadblocks.
• Exercise judgment and delegated authority on wide-ranging issues.
• Coordinate across multiple internal organizations to resolve issues.
• Vet contract issues/requests with appropriate internal organizations, track responses, and draft resulting feedback and perform internal escalations for approval where as necessary.
• Project manage multiple deals to closure simultaneously.
• Present training to client groups on transaction legal issues and strategies.
• Continuously seek to improve the transaction support process.

 

Qualifications/Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to summarize issues to clients/management.
• Teamwork and team leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively counsel clients concerning legal and business risks in sales transactions.
• Ability to work independently with little supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to rapidly assess potential risks, benefits and consequences of business decisions.
• Well-honed project management and organizational skills needed to manage multiple/complex transactions.
• Independent initiative to develop, lead and implement special projects that enhance contracting processes.
• Solid work ethic and strong sense of responsibility for high quality work product.
• Ability to achieve results under pressure/deadlines.
• Proficient in MS-Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.