Senior Paralegal / Contract Manager - Commercial

I am working alongside a client of mine who have recently gone through an acquisition. They are looking to build out their commercial services team. The team are in need of a commercial manager to lead on varied and complex transactional work.

The role will entail:

• 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 contractual advice
• Exercise judgment and delegated authority on wide-ranging issues
• Coordinate across multiple internal organisations to resolve issues
• Vet contract issues/requests with appropriate internal organisations, track responses, and draft resulting feedback
• Prepare and administer escalations as necessary
• Identify or create solutions to deal roadblocks
• Project manage multiple deals to closure simultaneously
• Present training to client groups on transaction contractual issues and strategies
• Continuously seek to improve the transaction support process

The appropriate candidate will have relevant and recent commercial transactions experience in a similar work environment (i.e., technology contracting office, law firm or corporate legal department). Familiarity with all phases of sales/outsource contracting from pre-contract requests for proposals/Bids to contract negotiation/execution and post-contract support. You will ideally have five years + experience. Apply quickly as these roles do not stay vacant forever.

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