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. 

Current Need:

We are looking for an experienced Contract Manager to join our legal team. This Contract Manager will be primarily responsible for managing the legal contracting process as well as collaborating with attorneys and internal stakeholders to achieve targeted results for analyzing, negotiating, drafting contracts and other legal documents.

Position Description:

• Day to day management of the sales contracting process for Global Payments’ software businesses.
• Respond appropriately to requests by legal personnel, management, and clients throughout the contracting process and formulate appropriate contract administration practices and office procedures.
• Responsible for negotiating, structuring, and administrating contractual documents that establish business relationships with vendors, customers and partners.
• Works with sales and service teams as well as the legal department to structure contracts.
• Maintain the contract template library, ensuring documents are current and adhere to legal department policies.
• Establishes contract management procedures and develops/updates templates to support new initiatives or services.
• Prepares first drafts of legal documents to ensure negotiated terms are accurately reflected and adhere to regulatory and organization policy.
• Make decisions on contract provisions in collaboration with attorneys, management and other stakeholders.
• Assigns resources for legal projects and research requests, aligning complexity with skill level.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and attorneys to address competing interests and set priorities.
• Participates in conference calls and meetings with staff, management, consultants, and clients to identify and document the need and scope of legal documents, to include contracts, exhibits, amendments, confidentiality agreements, and letters of intent.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to resolve issues and gain consensus needed to secure approval of contractual documents and ensure accountability for agreed terms.
• Reviews, formats and finalizes executable documents, ensuring that all negotiated terms are accurately reflected.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 5 years’ relevant experience as a corporate paralegal or contract manager in a high-quality law firm or corporate legal department.

Desired Qualifications:

• Paralegal Certificate

Required Skills:

Skills / Knowledge:

• Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives/principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
• Having ownership of a function, account or matrix management responsibilities, uses knowledge to ensure success, strengthen relationships, expand the business, and lead matrix teams on complex projects. Barriers to entry such as technical committee review may exist at this level.

Job Complexity:

•  Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups, both internal and external.

Supervision:

• Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.

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