Contract Negotiator

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Handles routine contracts requests by using standard company templates and drafting alternative responses with review by a senior team member or manager.
• Follows planning process for prioritizing deal support in working with sales and business leaders.
• Performs work in alignment with overall priorities of the company's legal function.
• Builds effective relationships with the company's legal colleagues, business owners, sales personnel, support functions, as well as with customers to facilitate effective escalations and efficient deal closures.
• Acts as key resource to assigned business teams.

Qualification & Experience 

• First level university degree required.
• Typically 2-5 years of customer facing contracts, negotiation, or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge and Skills:
• Intermediate knowledge of key laws, policies, processes, and practices applicable to closing non- standard contracts.
• Intermediate understanding of technology products, service offerings, and capabilities.
• Knowledge of key business and contractual risks.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills.
• Capable of presenting or escalating issues effectively to local legal/contracts management.
• Impact/Scope:
• Leads standard, low risk customer-facing contract drafts and presentations for one or more sales or business groups within a country.
• Impacts internal and external clients based in the country.