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About the Role

You will join the Legal Team at Nomia, providing pragmatic legal support to various business departments. The team negotiates, drafts, and reviews commercial contracts to minimize risk and ensure legal compliance. We encourage you to challenge your expertise, seek continuous improvement, and propose new methods and processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical, commercial, and concise advice, guidance, and support on contract terms, legal issues, and business risks.
• Review and amend terms in various agreements including supplier and customer contracts, software licenses, SaaS agreements, Purchase Order terms, EULAs, master service agreements, and related SOWs, agency and service provision agreements.
• Negotiate with customers and suppliers in line with business requirements and company policies to achieve business objectives and the required allocation of risk.
• Manage and maintain contracts registers and contract management systems.
• Work closely with various departments to onboard new suppliers and customers.
• Research legal and regulatory issues.
• Instruct external legal counsel in non-UK jurisdictions or for specific legal expertise and apply the advice to the situation.
• Create new business templates and keep existing business legal templates up to date and relevant.
• Suggest improvements for the more effective or efficient operation of the team.
• Keep your line manager updated with your workload and any relevant issues.
• Understand and follow team and business processes and procedures.
• Develop as a contract manager and business person.
• Utilize team training, research, precedent, and technology resources to optimize service delivery.
• Assist with the creation, maintenance, and update of internal policies and processes relating to the legal function.
• Adhere to Nomia’s data protection and information security policies.
• Promote diversity and inclusion in line with Nomia’s core values.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in systems and processes.

Requirements

• Legal training (e.g., law degree, LPC, GDL) and proven practical experience demonstrating solid understanding and application of fundamental legal principles, particularly in relation to commercial contracts.
• In-house experience across a range of commercial agreements, preferably in the IT industry, as a reseller for a multi-national business.
• Good knowledge of contract law and some knowledge of cross-border agreements and their complications.
• Good understanding of data protection legislation and its relevance to commercial transactions.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team.
• Confidence in own skills to make decisions aligning with the law and business requirements.
• Ability to operate to deadlines and prioritize workload.
• Good business judgment, understanding commercial pressures and implications.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to communicate appropriately with key stakeholders without jargon or overly legalistic language.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and understandable communications including legal agreements, associated correspondence, and advice.
• Computer literate with strong skills in Office 365 suite.
• Good negotiation skills to seek positive business outcomes and maintain positive relations with customers and suppliers.
• Adaptable and able to work flexibly in the context of a medium-sized growing business.
• A positive approach to work and a team-player, working collaboratively to share knowledge and workload, and keep stakeholders informed.

Skills

• Commercial contracts
• Contract law
• Cross-border agreements
• Data protection legislation
• Negotiation
• Organizational skills
• Time management
• Attention to detail
• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Office 365 suite

Location

• United Kingdom
• Singapore
• Dubai
• Poland
• United States

Work Type

• Hybrid
• 3 days a week in the office
• 2 days a week working remotely

Education Level

• Law degree
• LPC
• GDL

About the Company

• Nomia helps companies reduce cost, manage risk, and increase efficiency for non-strategic third-party spend.
• We act as an extension of our customer’s procurement team by executing the end-to-end sourcing, supplier onboarding and contracting process for indirect categories of spend.
• We are focused on delivering an innovative and disruptive procurement solution to our customers to make managing non-strategic spend simpler, more transparent, and better value.
• We are a global team based in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Dubai, Poland, and the United States.