The Senior Paralegal, Corporate Contracts provides support to the Corporate Legal Department with a primary focus on commercial contract review, drafting and negotiation support. This role manages contract intake workflows, drafts and redlines agreements, and partners cross鈥慺unctionally to drive timely, risk鈥慴alanced outcomes. It requires excellent organization, independent judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast鈥憄aced environment. The position involves sensitive and confidential information and demands a high level of discretion.
What you will be doing:
- Contract review: draft, analyze, and redline agreements (e.g., MSAs, SOWs, customer/sales, vendor/supplier, NDAs, SaaS/software licenses, marketing, distribution, logistics). Escalate non鈥憇tandard terms and propose practical alternatives.
- Assist in negotiating terms with suppliers and customers.
- Intake & workflow management: Own contract intake triage, tracking, and routing; maintain approval records and turnaround metrics.
- Template and playbook enablement: Maintain and improve standard templates, fallback clauses, and guidance notes; help deliver self鈥憇ervice resources and guardrails for business partners.
- Issue spotting and risk alignment: Identify legal and business risks (e.g., indemnities, liability caps, termination, IP, data privacy/security, insurance) and recommend mitigations consistent with policy.
- Outside counsel coordination: Liaise with external counsel when needed and track assignments, deliverables, and budgets.
- Draft internal memos, summaries, reports and other correspondence.
- Prepare spreadsheets, timelines, presentations, contract management tracking.
- Cross鈥慺unctional partnership: Collaborate with Sourcing/Procurement, Sales, IT/Security, Finance, Tax, and Compliance to resolve deal issues and keep transactions on schedule.