Senior Contract Manager

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Summary of This Role

Manages the legal contract process to ensure client satisfaction while minimizing corporate risk.  Collaborates with management, attorneys, sales and other internal stakeholders to achieve targeted results and meet client expectations. Responsible for analyzing, reviewing, providing language recommendations, comments, negotiating contracts and other legal documents, including drafting amendments, client contracts with applicable schedules, interpreting contractual language and incorporating legal and business concepts. Serves as the primary liaison with client contacts for assigned projects, coordinating communication efforts and the distribution of documents to facilitate each step of the contract cycle.

What Part Will You Play?

• Manages the negotiation of client contracts.  Documents and communicates negotiated terms to leadership regarding pricing, solution design, business terms, economic components. 
• Interacts with management to provide counsel regarding timelines and deliverables. Exercises judgment to strategically lead cross-functional teams and resolve competing priorities to meet project requirements and client expectations with a high level of accountability.
• Counsels key stakeholders on innovative solutions to overcome barriers and to ensure internal approval and accountability for agreed terms.
• Reviews documents throughout the contract process to ensure that all negotiated terms are accurately reflected and are consistent with corporate policy.
• Analyzes and review contracts and other legal documents, providing inputs, comments, and language recommendations throughout the contract cycle, negotiates terms, and counsels on client contract issues, ensuring the business needs are met while mitigating contractual risk.
• Tailors contractual documents for specific business platforms to meet current and future client needs, recognizing the impact of key industry developments.
• Negotiates, proposes and reviews proposed innovative solutions and makes decisions on contract provisions in collaboration with stakeholders, management and attorneys.
• Assists with drafting policy documents and with regulatory research.
• Identifies and initiates actions required to adapt the contractual process to changes in technology, regulatory, audit, or corporate requirements, including developing and updating contract templates to support new initiatives and services.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in: or combination of relevant professional training and/or experience accepted in lieu of degree
• Typically Minimum 10+ Years Relevant Exp in analyzing, reviewing, writing and negotiating legal documents
• Relevant experience in SaaS contract negotiation.
• Advanced English Level.
• Advanced Spanish Level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant experience with Global Payments or another financial payments company

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Skills / Knowledge - Having broad yet in-depth expertise and unique knowledge, uses skills to set and ensure success of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways within environments and situations that are complex and difficult. Having ownership of a function, major account or matrix management responsibilities, uses knowledge to ensure success, strengthen relationships, expand the business through key initiatives, and lead matrix teams on complex projects. Barriers to entry such as technical committee and senior management review exist at this level.
• Job Complexity - Works on issue that impact design/selling success or address future concepts, products, or technologies. Creates formal networks with key decision makers and serves as external spokesperson for the organization with key accounts, agencies, partners, vendors, and sales prospects.
• Supervision - Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
• PC skills - Proficient in Windows-based applications, in particular Microsoft Word and Excel

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