Manage the full contract lifecycle for vendor, client, NDA, and other business agreements, including intake, preparation, initial review, negotiation coordination, approval, and execution.
Coordinate contract execution through DocuSign and ensure executed agreements are properly stored, coded, and routed to appropriate stakeholders.
Prepare contract summaries, status reports, obligation trackers, and key-term summaries for legal, business, finance, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
Support contract negotiations by reviewing proposed terms, identifying business and legal issues, escalating material risks, and recommending practical fallback positions consistent with approved playbooks and company policy.
Own and improve contract lifecycle management processes, including intake, triage, template use, workflow design, metadata standards, repository hygiene, reporting, and process documentation.
Maintain and enhance contract resources, including templates, playbooks, clause libraries, fallback positions, and related guidance materials.
Manage legal service requests, including intake review, prioritization, routing, stakeholder communications, and response tracking in accordance with established service expectations.
Corporate Governance
Assist with entity formations, dissolutions, internal restructurings, and intercompany transactions, including preparation, review, filing, and tracking of related documents and approvals.
Prepare, organize, and maintain corporate governance materials, including resolutions, consents, bylaws, minutes, ownership records, and related stakeholder communications.
Maintain and organize corporate records, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Support mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions by preparing documents, supporting due diligence, and organizing transaction files.
Assist with all aspects of subsidiary governance, including administration of the companys legal entity management database and coordinating annual filings and other requirements with registered agents and outside counsel.
Respond to requests for information, including "know your customer" requests, due diligence, and internal stakeholder requests.
General Legal Support
Conduct contract, policy, and market research as needed to support legal review, negotiation strategy, process improvement, and business decision-making.
Support legal team and contract administration and perform other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
Bachelors degree in business, legal studies, or a related field.
Contract management certification or paralegal certificate preferred but not required.
A minimum of XXX years of experience supporting or managing in-house commercial contract review and negotiation processes
Experience managing the full contract lifecycle, including intake, drafting, internal approvals, negotiation coordination, execution, renewal, amendment, termination, reporting, and repository management.
Experience working with CLM platforms (such as Onit), entity management platforms (such as Diligent), electronic signature platforms (such as DocuSign), and CRMs preferred.