Senior Contracts Specialist

Pegasystems; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global SaaS company is seeking a Senior Contracts Specialist to manage critical contract lifecycle operations and support Business Officers in the deal cycle. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in contracts, attention to detail, and strong interpersonal skills. You will collaborate with various internal teams to ensure contract execution and compliance in a dynamic environment, making this a vital role within the organization.

Benefits

Continuous learning and development opportunities

Competitive global benefits

Flexible and fun work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience with 2-3 years in a contracts role.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills are required.
• Familiarity with transactional documents like Cloud Master Agreements is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Manage contract lifecycle operations and support Business Officers.
• Track and monitor quarterly end deals with various teams.
• Create and review commercial and legal agreements.

Skills

Contracts drafting

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Overview

If you are looking to join a highly talented group of transactional legal professionals within an expanding global SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud company, this is the team for you. As a key contributor you will report to a Lead Business Officer and will partner closely with Business Officers and other internal teams to support the deal cycle.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Contracts Specialist, you are responsible for mission-critical contract lifecycle operations and for supporting Business Officers on commercial contracts, renewals and legal topics in client-facing discussions.
• You will work day-to-day with Business Officers, Sales, Legal, Renewal specialists, and various Finance teams to help win-business and on-board and manage commercial agreements with new and existing clients.
• Manage the internal Pega Contract process - through the pre and post signature agreement process.
• Create, review, and revise a variety of commercial and legal agreements in close coordination with and supervision by the Business Officer/commercial Legal Team and professional services personnel.
• Track and monitor quarter end deals, working closely with the commercial, legal and renewals teams to ensure all potential issues are addressed in a proactive manner prior to contract execution.
• Participate in projects to accelerate deal velocity.

Who You Are

• You are a dependable, process-minded contracts professional (or paralegal) who understands the key legal and commercial aspects within a transaction and how to support a team.
• You pay attention to the details and expect top performance from yourself and your peers.
• With solid experience and a desire to learn, you are looking for an opportunity to take the next step in your career at a stable, growing, industry-leading tech company.
• Ideally, you have experience working with transactional documents which may include Cloud Master Agreements, Subscription Schedules, Data Protection Agreements and Cloud Information Security documents in order to support and assist the Business Officer/commercial legal team with drafting and revising. However, if you don’t have this prior experience, then you are willing to learn quickly so that you support the commercial legal team.

What You've Accomplished

• 5+ years of work experience with 2 - 3 years of professional experience in a contracts role (or paralegal) that involves reviewing and drafting contracts and renewals.
• Proactive self-starter, demonstrated ability to perform, succeed and multi-task in a high growth environment with varying deadlines. Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong positive relationships with business stakeholders, including senior leaders.
• Attention to detail, strong organizational, project management and multitasking skills to manage multiple matters, to independently set own work priorities and to meet required work deadlines.
• Ideally (but not critical) a Bachelor’s Degree
• Ideally (but not critical), knowledge of software licensing, subscription ("as-a-Service"), & professional services contracting.

Pega Offers You

• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
• Continuous learning and development opportunities
• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

Meet Our Team

As a key contributor you will report to a Lead Business Officer and will partner closely with Business Officers and other internal teams to support the deal cycle.

Culture, Compliance & Equal Opportunity

Job ID: 22656

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