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Contracts Specialist

Posted 2024-09-19

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💎 Seniority level: Junior, 2+ years

📍 Location: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, New Zealand

🔍 Industry: Govtech

🏢 Company: Granicus👥 251-500💰 $ Private on 2020-12-17GovTechVideo StreamingCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareCollaborationSoftware

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 2+ years

🪄 Skills: Communication SkillsAnalytical SkillsCollaboration

Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree, associates degree or paralegal certificate with 2+ years of experience.
  • Experience in contracts drafting, customer negotiation or software renewals required.
  • Expert with Microsoft Word; experience with Salesforce and DocuSign a plus.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and ability to manage changing priorities.
  • Ability to effectively advance multiple simultaneous projects meeting tight deadlines.
  • Comfortable collaborating with all levels of a professional organization.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, customer service, and communication.
  • A pragmatic customer-centric attitude, strong problem-solving skills, and cooperative team focus.
Responsibilities:
  • Review and negotiate the legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts, including subscription agreements, confidentiality/non-disclosure, software licensing, and consulting agreements.
  • Analyze, interpret, and summarize agreements and contractual terms in a timely manner, drafting alternative clauses where necessary.
  • Propose redlines and creative solutions in accordance with Granicus policies and risk tolerance parameters.
  • Review and respond to contractual terms in requests for proposals and participate in bid response preparation.
  • Provide responses to requests from internal clients regarding company policies, contractual issues, and risk tolerance.
  • Escalate legal issues to legal counsel or contract managers for further evaluation or approval.
  • Identify, report, and escalate business issues and nonstandard terms for review and approval.
  • Partner with Sales, Renewals, and Customer Success to save any at-risk and late renewals.
  • Validate and document client entitlements and other contract attributes.
  • Manage contracting workflow from initial request through to signature.
  • Manage record keeping for all contract-related correspondence and documentation.
  • Ensure accurate post-signature processing of orders and contracts.
  • Participate in new company acquisition integrations and other contracts-related projects as requested by management.
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