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About the Role

We currently have a career opportunity for a Manager in our US EY Law practice. Our Legal Transform and Operate/Contract Solutions team works with clients to improve the performance of enterprise contracting operations and add value to the overall organization. Contract Solutions serves high-profile, national and multinational clients across the globe. We are a growing, dynamic practice with excellent opportunities for career development. At EY, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery of project-based engagements involving contract review, abstraction, analysis, and remediation services in response to client transactions and other triggering events.
Create executive summaries of executed contracts to enable client business teams’ understanding of risk and compliance with positions.
Review, redline, and negotiate a broad range of contract types including procurement and sale of services, technology, data, content and products.
Collaborate with client stakeholders to mitigate identified risks in the contract language being negotiated and ensure commercial objectives are fulfilled within the stipulated timeframe.
Understand and work within client-specific processes and negotiation strategies.
Communicate independently with the client’s business and legal stakeholders with a view to building/strengthening relationships.
Work within a team to ensure service delivery in accordance with the agreed project scope, ensuring overall client satisfaction and compliance with SLAs, and actively identifying client needs.
Lead regular communication forums involving internal and external stakeholders.
Serve as a point of escalation for the project team to address both technical and people management issues.
Work to understand, implement and facilitate use of Contract Management technologies and AI point solutions to enable delivery services and address client needs.
Innovate and improve upon current processes and techniques including in relation to workflow, time and knowledge management.
Facilitate reporting via daily/weekly/monthly metrics packs to internal and external project stakeholders, including members of senior management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 5 to 7 years of experience in (including combination of) a large multinational corporation, law firm, or management consulting firm.
Membership in good standing with a State Bar or relevant certifications (e.g., CPA, CIPP/E, CIPPM, CISA, CISSP, CISM, LPIP, PMP).
Deep contracting subject matter expertise; ability to work with different contract types and structures and strong issue spotting ability.
Contract negotiation experience handling volumes across a variety of transactions; ideally on both the buy and sell side.
Experience leading workstreams in large data-driven engagements.
Strong communication, writing and interpersonal skills at all levels, including presentation skills, both formal and informal.
Familiarity working with contracting/ CLM technology and an interest in developing and utilizing leading AI applications.
Highly responsive to the needs of both internal (including reporting managers, other project managers and team members) as well as external clients.
Strong relationship and people leadership skills – be a team player, facilitate encourage different points of view and effectively manage any associated conflict.
High energy, self-starter, ability to work independently, analytical, quick learner, organized, flexible to change and drives results.
Strong problem solving, analytical, and project management skills are desirable.
JD or master’s degree in a preferred field (Information Systems, Business, Analytics, Finance, or Accounting).
Experience working with legal-adjacent functions (e.g., procurement, supply chain, commercial) and understanding of non-legal business objectives.

Skills

Contract review
Contract abstraction
Contract analysis
Contract remediation
Executive summary creation
Contract negotiation
Risk mitigation
Client relationship management
Service delivery management
Stakeholder communication
Team leadership
Contract Management technologies
AI applications
Process innovation
Workflow management
Time management
Knowledge management
Metrics reporting
Problem solving
Analytical skills
Project management

Location

New York City
Austin
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Hoboken
Iselin
Chicago

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager
5 to 7 years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
JD or master's degree

Salary/Compensations

New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $154,000 to $256,700
Bay Area California offices – $160,500 to $267,400
All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $128,400 to $235,300

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Pension plans
401(k) plans
Flexible vacation policy
Paid holidays
Winter/Summer breaks
Personal/Family Care leave
Other leaves of absence

About the Company

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.
Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

Equal Opportunity

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com.