Senior Associate, Contract Management

With a legacy as a pioneer in the ALSP market, Factor leads the next evolution in legal services through AI-integrated contracting.Factor is the market leader in Integrated Law™, combining the expertise of Traditional Law, the efficiency of New Law, and the close business integration of In-house legal to deliver complex legal work at scale.
Factor works alongside corporate legal departments to solve for the ever-increasing demands and complexity of transactional legal work. Our "do while transforming, transform while doing" approach combines specialist expertise, AI-powered solutions, and business process knowledge to deliver better performance, better business and legal outcomes, and a transformed contracting experience.
Our clients span Fortune 500 companies including global banks, major pharmaceutical companies and large technology firms.We believe that the more diverse our team becomes — in backgrounds, skills, experiences, and perspectives — the higher our creative potential as a company. We are dedicated to growing a diverse, inclusive company where individuals of all backgrounds thrive.
We are comprised of more than 300 lawyers, legal specialists, technologists, and process consultants across Europe and North America – Join us! The Role:Our client are looking for a Senior Contract Associate to join them in Bangalore. As a member of their team, you’ll be responsible for supporting our clients business by drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts as part of a wider general support service to the client’s contracts management and in-house legal teams.   If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, quirky, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a team committed to overall delivery of services and compliance with all delivery commitments to the client
• Draft and negotiate a wide range of contracts including content and development contracts, software development contracts, professional and consulting services contracts, staffing contracts, licensing contracts, other IP/IT contracts and general commercial contracts; 
• Working with junior team members and training and developing them to become skilled negotiators 
• Assisting the Delivery lead by owning the more complex negotiations and providing oversight and QC of more Junior members of the team, some of who may not have negotiated before.
• Adhere to delivery processes and commitments; 
• Identifying new opportunities to improve the client negotiation processes & procedures and to further develop our long-term relationships.
• Input and manage data on Factor and client systems and keep them up to date; 
• Help develop contract templates, playbooks and other tools for use by the team; 
• Remain up to date on legal and other relevant developments;  
• Be part of a team committed to continually improving our service to the client and adding value.   

Qualifications

• Law Degree and/or Legally Qualified 
• Legally eligible to work in the country this role is based
• 5+ years’ demonstrable experience of independently drafting and negotiating commercial contracts within a law firm, as part of an in-house legal team or within Factor 
• Excellent attention to detail 
• Operates with substantial latitude, with minimal or no supervision 
• Strong commercial awareness, working directly with business managers 
• The legal knowledge to act as a senior advisor to the client and serve as an escalation point on issues for more junior team members 
• Very strong English written and verbal communication and presentation skills 
• Very strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite - especially Microsoft Word 
• Coaching and mentoring more junior team members 
• Experience of client relationship management 
• Working with a recognized matter management system as part of daily routine