Commercial Contract Director

Celestica; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a collaborative legal professional to manage the contract lifecycle from negotiation to expiration. Your role will involve risk management and collaboration with various departments to ensure compliance and optimize profitability. This remote position requires significant experience in commercial contract law and offers a competitive salary range.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of applicable experience in commercial contract law.
• Significant experience and knowledge of legal concepts and negotiation practices.
• Ability to work efficiently in a remote role.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate and manage commercial customer agreements and legal contracts.
• Provide legal direction and guidance to business segments.
• Evaluate and manage risks associated with contracts.

Skills

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Attention to detail

Ethics and integrity

Education

J.D. or LLB degree

Job description

Req ID: 127094
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Americas
Country: USA

Summary

We are looking for a collaborative, innovative legal professional to oversee the entire contract lifecycle from drafting and negotiation to issue management to agreement expiration. You will identify and mitigate potential risks associated with our many commercial agreements to maximize profitability. You will become part of our global, experienced, and revered team that ensures not only compliance with regulations, laws and company policies but who also works together to improve themselves and its processes to ensure successful customer interactions. You will also work cross-functionally with Sales, Business Segments, Manufacturing Sites, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance, which will give you a broader sense of how our company teams together to achieve our goals. Your decisions and influence will directly impact the company’s trajectory and bottom line.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Draft, negotiate and manage commercial customer agreements, NDAs, and other related legal agreements
• Provides contractual/legal direction and guidance to business segments and manufacturing sites.
• Responsible for integrating Celestica's Contracts Management and best practices across Celestica (subsidiaries and affiliates) worldwide.
• Provides contractual direction, support and coordination to and between Celestica's functional departments (e.g. Supply Chain, Finance, Ops) in executing and supporting the performance of customer contracts and other agreements (e.g. licenses, inventory agreements).
• Requires the ability to evaluate and prioritize often divergent interests of Celestica and the customer.
• Makes key decisions with respect to balancing the need, in order to be customer-responsive, with that of protecting (risk management & profitability) Celestica’s interests.
• Works with the customer account teams and legal counsel (Celestica & customer) and interprets legal advice; turning it into business advice and practice.
• Contributes to Corporate Contracts policy.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and impression management skills.
• Strong collaboration and time management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High ethics and integrity.
• Ability to work efficiently in a remote role
• Ability to work independently, cross functionally, and as part of a team.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Significant experience and knowledge of legal concepts, complex commercial contract development, negotiation practices and contractual/business risk analysis.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Typical Experience

• Five to ten years of applicable experience in commercial contract law.

Typical Education

• J.D. or LLB degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate. Salary Range: $139,376-$217,822 Annually

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.