Contracting Counsel Associate Manager

Gratitude Philippines; Cebu City; Hybrid; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Gratitude Philippines is seeking a Contracting Counsel Associate Manager to review, draft, and negotiate a broad range of contracts in a fast paced corporate setting. The role requires strategic thinking, risk awareness, and the ability to educate executives on legal issues.

Onsite/Hybrid work setup in Mandaluyong with shifting work hours. A senior professional with 4+ years in digital, consulting, or outsourcing is preferred.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing in a law firm or fast‑paced corporate legal/transaction group.
• 2+ years negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues.
• Experience drafting technology‑based agreements and negotiating complex contracts.
• Excellent English and Filipino written/spoken communication.

Responsibilities

• Independently structure, negotiate and close client transactions with high autonomy.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Intellectual Property

Data Privacy

English & Filipino

Executive presence

Autonomy

Finance awareness

Legal drafting

Job description

JOB TITLE: Contracting Counsel Associate Manager
WORK SET UP: Onsite/Hybrid in Mandaluyong
WORK SHIFT: Shifting
Salary budget: Confidential (Will be discussed during the job offer)

Job Summary

• Review, draft, and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment which may include: master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, systems integration and agile development.

Team with more senior CLPs in supporting more complex contracts and deal structures.

• Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently help to structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective with high degree of autonomy and educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues
• Strategize with senior CLPs and internal business clients prior to client negotiations
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices
• Develop subject matter experience in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business and advise other CLPs in such areas
• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues
• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives
• Embrace and evolve to gain experience in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology-enabled contracting professional

Educational Requirement

• Practicing law in the Philippines

Skills and Work Experience

Must Have:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility; such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry
• Minimum of 2 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred
• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions with high degree of autonomy
• Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements
• Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management
• Strong executive presence
• Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Filipino

Additional details

• Open to applicants who are currently in the Philippines and already have the right to live and work in this country are eligible for this role