Overview
We believe that difference sparks brilliance, so we welcome people and ideas from everywhere to join us in stretching what's possible. At Tapestry, being true to yourself is core to who we are. When each of us brings our individuality to our collective ambition, our creativity is unleashed. This global house of brands - Coach, Kate Spade New York, Stuart Weitzman - was built by unconventional entrepreneurs and unexpected solutions, so when we say we believe in dreams, we mean we believe in making them happen. We're always on a journey to becoming our best, and your voice is valued, your ambitions are supported, and your work is recognized. We are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive.
Primary Purpose
The Analyst role is a member of the Contract Optimization function, which currently sits in Tapestry's Legal Department and reports to the VP & Deputy General Counsel based in New York. This role will work closely and take direction from the Lead Analyst, Contract Optimization, also based in New York. This position is based in the company's Singapore office and will work closely with the legal team in that office.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the Analyst, Contract Optimization, role include:
- Serving as a super-user of our CLM tool (DocuSign), including managing intake, workflows, and reporting, and building out efficiencies and analytics.
- Creating and analyzing reporting relating to contracts.
- Drafting and negotiating lower-risk, high-frequency contracts to drive business value while identifying and mitigating risk.
- Maintain and update agreement details within the CLM system, performing data entry and clean-up to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Respond to internal business partners' inquiries regarding contract status, terms, processes, providing clear and timely information with a customer service mindset.
- Coordinating and managing contracting playbooks, templates and other knowledge management tools and tracking review of Tapestry's terms and conditions.
- Interpreting and assessing issues, risk, agreements and questions from internal teams to quickly provide a path that ensures a business or legal decision and helps to efficiently move contracting work forward.
- Collaborating closely with the global internal stakeholders in Legal and Procurement to ensure on-going building of efficient contracting processes are developed and followed.
- Serving as a central point of contact for contract workflows and ensuring contracts are executed efficiently and in accordance with Tapestry standards, business needs and timelines.
- Championing CLM and providing training and ongoing support for Legal, Procurement and business teams.
- Developing and managing strategies, schedules and task lists to ensure assigned projects are accomplished on time.
- Ensuring new contracts are developed in compliance with regulations and current playbooks.
- Assisting with the administration of internal systems that support the drafting, negotiation, and execution of contracts and other documents.
- Establishing supportive relationships with internal business partners and cross-functional support teams and providing information with a customer-service mindset.
- Assisting with the resolution of contract-related issues, and coordinating with Tapestry's legal and procurement partners, as needed, to support conclusions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of one year working within a business-critical system, with responsibilities including organizing data, maintaining system accuracy, and resolving technical issues to support reliable and efficient operations.
- A minimum of one year working with contracts, including experience drafting contracts.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a database, run reports and analyze data.
- Demonstrated project and time management, prioritization and organization skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction, exercise good judgment and take ownership of issues and matters to their successful conclusion.
- Strong attention to detail in performing data entry tasks.
- A strong sense of collaboration and teamwork, with a focus on customer service.
- Ability to meet with the global project team based in New York.
Preferred education and experience
- Experience with DocuSign, Salesforce, IronClad or other CLM tool.
- Experience providing training.
- Experience working closely with cross-functional partners and as part of a global team.
- Project management or database administration.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and actionable feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; bottom-line oriented; pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds rapport; builds constructive relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a versatile learner; open to change; analyzes successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and tries to find solutions; quickly grasps the essence of new tasks.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends; has broad knowledge and perspective; future oriented; can articulate credible possibilities and plan strategies.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging tasks; holds development discussions; aware of each person\'s career goals; creates development plans and executes them; fosters growth and teamwork.
- Building Effective Teams: Builds teams, fosters morale and collaboration, shares wins, and defines success for the whole team.
Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All employment decisions are based on qualifications as they relate to the position, without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or other legally-protected bases. Visit Tapestry, Inc. at http://www.tapestry.com/