EY EY Law - Commercial Contracts Manager 

United States, New York, New York 

480640319

Legal departments are facing significant pressure to demonstrate greater efficiencies and value. New regulations, technologies and events are prompting legal departments to explore new ways to optimize their functions, reduce costs and provide value to the overall organization. Legal managed services is one of the fastest growing segments of the legal services market, estimated to be worth over USD3bn. The investment in legal managed services is at the center of the growth strategy for EY Law. As a Manager, you’ll be at the heart of that goal. It’s a role with far-reaching implications, so you’ll be working with stakeholders across industries with some of the most innovative tools available.

Responsibilities

Major areas where the group provides assistance include:

• Review, redline, and negotiate a broad range of transactional contracts including procurement and sale of services, technology, data, content and products, within or outside of the supply chain
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to mitigate identified risks in the contract language being negotiated and ensure the commercial objectives are fulfilled within the stipulated timeframe
• Communicate independently with the client’s business and legal stakeholders with a view of building/strengthening relationship
• Understand and work within client specific processes and negotiation strategies
• Work with a team to ensure service delivery in accordance with the agreed project scope, ensuring overall client satisfaction and compliance with SLAs, and actively identifying client needs and ways to fulfill those needs
• Contribute to, and lead regular communication forums involving internal and external stakeholders
• Be the point of escalation for the project team to address both technical and people management issues
• Create executive summaries of executed contracts to enable client business teams’ understanding of risk and compliance with positions
• Work to understand, implement and facilitate use of Contract Management technologies appropriate to client needs
• Innovate and improve upon current processes and techniques including in relation to workflow, time and knowledge management
• Facilitate reporting via daily/weekly/monthly metrics packs to internal and external project stakeholders, possibly members of senior management

To qualify, candidates must have:

• Licensed Attorney with 2 to 6 years of experience in a law firm or in-house with a large multinational corporation
• Ability to work with different contract structures and strong issue spotting ability
• Contract negotiation experience handling volumes across a variety of transactions on both the buy and sell side
• Strong communication, writing and inter-personal skills at all levels, including presentation skills, both formal and informal
• Familiarity working with technology and willingness to keep abreast of the changing environment
• Highly responsive to the needs of both internal (including reporting managers, other project managers and team members) as well as external clients
• Strong relationship and people leadership skills – be a team player, facilitate encourage different points of view and effectively manage any associated conflict
• High energy, self-starter, ability to work independently, analytical, quick learner, organized, flexible to change and drives results
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and project management skills are desirable