Senior Business Contracts Lawyer - Strategy & Negotiation

PLDT; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

PLDT Enterprise seeks an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to lead business contracts strategy and standards. You will enable execution of legal initiatives, provide strategic support for revenue-generating transactions, and oversee contract preparation, review, and negotiation for telecommunications and ICT services.

You will coordinate with diverse business units and stakeholders to align terms, protect PLDT's interests, and develop templates and playbooks to standardize negotiations across

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years of related legal experience, preferably in contracts, commercial transactions, telecommunications, ICT, technology, corporate, or regulatory practice.
• Experience in preparing, reviewing, negotiating, and managing commercial, revenue, service, reseller, technology, infrastructure, or enterprise customer contracts is preferred.
• Juris Doctor degree and passing the Philippine Bar Examination are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead, perform, and provide legal standards, solutions, and recommendations as the legal expert on Business Contracts to enable, execute, and drive the legal strategies and initiatives of the Revenue Contracts Management center.
• Provide strategic legal support to Enterprise Business and non-core business units of PLDT for revenue generating, revenue-enabling, and related commercial transactions.
• Prepare, review, and finalize contracts pertaining to telecommunications services, value-added services, managed ICT services, reseller arrangements, enterprise products, and other business contracts of PLDT Enterprise.
• Review and advise on master services agreements, service schedules, amendments, memoranda of agreement, reseller agreements, referral and marketing arrangements, sponsorship contracts, non-disclosure agreements, infrastructure access documents, and other revenue-related agreements.
• Ensure that commercial terms, service scope, payment mechanics, service levels, liability provisions, data privacy obligations, intellectual property rights, termination rights, and dispute resolution provisions are legally sound and protective of PLDT's interests.
• Develop, update, and maintain contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, review standards, and negotiation positions for Enterprise Business and other assigned revenue contracts.

Skills

Legal experience

Contracts

Commercial transactions

Telecommunications

ICT

Technology

Regulatory practice

Education

Juris Doctor degree

Bar admission

Job description

PLDT Enterprise seeks an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to lead business contracts strategy and standards. You will enable execution of legal initiatives, provide strategic support for revenue-generating transactions, and oversee contract preparation, review, and negotiation for telecommunications and ICT services.

You will coordinate with diverse business units and stakeholders to align terms, protect PLDT's interests, and develop templates and playbooks to standardize negotiations across