Job Description
Verisign is seeking a Corporate Contracts Manager to join their Law Department. This role is crucial in providing high-quality legal support, focusing on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating vendor contracts while mitigating risks. The Contracts Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams, ensuring transaction terms align with company policies.
Role involves:
- Reviews, drafts, and negotiates a variety of commercial agreements.
- Experience redlining and negotiating vendor contracts.
- Works closely with cross-functional teams and coordinates and obtains approvals with internal stakeholders.
- Drafts legal assessments detailing contract terms, conditions and identifies risk mitigation strategies.
- Serves as lead support to business unit on assigned transactions; supports weekly status update meetings.
Requirements:
- 4 Year / Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience, required
- 8+ years commercial transactional experience including procurement related agreements with a high-level of attention to detail, required
- Strong knowledge of commercial contract terms and ability to identify and analyze key issues
- Strong organizational and project management skills, including managing transactions working cross functionally to finalize agreements for the procurement of goods and services
- Aptitude to quickly absorb new information
- Highly developed interpersonal skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Comfortable receiving edits and feedback on work product
- Ability to summarize large amounts of information and present work product to management, identifying key issues and recommendations
- Flexibility to quickly adjust to new priorities and/or process changes
- Ability to work independently and appropriately prioritize a high volume of transactions
- Demonstrated leadership, team-working, and team-building skills
- Certified Commercial Contract Manager (CCCM), preferred
- Certified Professional Contract Manager (CCPM), preferred
Verisign offers:
- Dynamic and flexible work environment
- Competitive benefits
- Ability to grow your career