Junior Commercial Attorney (Remote UK-based only)

Elevate; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in legal services is seeking a Junior Commercial Attorney based in the UK. In this role, you will support contract negotiations and management, working closely with various teams to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in legal processes. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience in transactional contracts and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in reviewing, interpreting and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Professional proficiency in one or more languages preferred.
• Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple project activities.

Responsibilities

• Review, negotiate and manage vendor and merchant contracts.
• Work closely with customer legal team and support procurement and sales teams.
• Participate in projects to improve contracting efficiency.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Detail oriented

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

3 or more years of relevant experience in transactional contracts support

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Google applications

Job description

Junior Commercial Attorney (Remote UK-based only)

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HR/Operations CoordinatorAssoc. CIPD,MBA

You will be a member of Elevates Managed Contracts Services Team, working closely with in-house legal departments and their internal business customers. You will provide deal support and also participate in projects to improve our customers contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. You will work independently on assigned matters, but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team and Elevate service lines, as well as the customers in house team.

You might be the right person if you:

• Like the sound of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment for a quickly growing company in an expanding new services market
• Think legal services should embrace business models and processes to create measurable, cost-effective results
• Enjoy negotiating and drafting contracts.
• Like working with multinational companies, spanning different markets and industries
• Embrace the use of technology tools to facilitate your work
• Are knowledge focused rather than task focused; understand the importance of capturing and re-using information
• Work well independently as well as with teams
• Are the kind of person who can be relied upon to get things done

Duties may include, but are not limited to the review, negotiation and management of vendor and merchant contracts on a global basis.

• In-scope contracts for vendor support would include low to medium complexity master services agreements, consulting arrangements, professional services agreements, software licenses, hardware purchase agreements, SaaS agreements, Data Privacy agreements, statements of work and other routine procurement agreements.
• In-scope contracts for merchant support would include low to medium complexity pricing amendments, merchant accession agreements, guarantees and NDAs.
• Work closely with customer legal team and provide support to the procurement and sales teams.
• Review contracts and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that you will help create.
• Facilitate escalation and resolution of contract issues.
• Update or draft templates, negotiation playbooks, and other contract infrastructure tools.
• Capture various pieces of information related to the contracts or matters that you support.
• Participate or manage customer projects to improve contracting efficiency, cost effectiveness, and knowledge sharing.
• Participate on task forces that strive to improve how Elevate services its customers and that enable our team to develop and grow.

Experience/Skills/Education:

• 3 or more years of relevant experience in transactional contracts support, including reviewing, interpreting and negotiating commercial contracts relating to procurement, sales, IT and Data Privacy.
• Professional proficiency in one or more of the following languages is not necessary but would be preferred: French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Hebrew, Russian and Japanese.

Skills for Success:

• Organizational and time management skills. Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple project activities and competing work demands.
• Detail oriented, but possessing the ability to see the big picture.
• Positive interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain cooperative, courteous working relationships with others.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Have a sense of urgency, self-motivated, and accountable
• Ability to perform QC on self and others
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or Google applications. Proficiency in, or exposure to contact management, reporting, and workflow tools, helpful but not required.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Legal Services

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