Contracting Counsel Associate Manager

Stafflink Express; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Stafflink Express is seeking an experienced corporate legal professional in the Philippines to review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of contractual agreements in a fast-paced environment. You will advise executives on legal and risk aspects and work with senior CLPs on complex deals.

The role requires strong negotiator skills, autonomy in handling high volumes of transactions, and expertise in technology-based contracts, IP, and data privacy considerations.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Filipino with excellent written and verbal communication.
• Minimum of 4 years in digital, consulting, systems integration, or outsourcing contracts.
• Experience negotiating IP and data privacy issues preferred.

Responsibilities

• Independently structure, negotiate and close client transactions with autonomy while advising executives on legal risks.
• Strategize with senior CLPs and internal clients before client negotiations.
• Stay updated on developments affecting the company and its industries to inform transactional practices.
• Develop subject matter expertise in areas benefiting Legal and business and advise other CLPs accordingly.
• Contribute to internal guidelines, toolkits, and knowledge capital on legal and business issues.
• Support and promote Legal Group initiatives and embody contracting attributes like being tech-enabled and business-minded.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Contract drafting

Commercial law

Intellectual property

Data privacy

English and Filipino communication

Job description

About the role

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 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 or more areas that benefit Legal and/or 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

About you

• Practicing law in the Philippines


• 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