Contract/Legal Manager

Contract manager in Carnation will play a critical role as he will direct and oversee contracts throughout their lifecycle. Serving as the liaison between companies, employees, customers, vendors, and independent contractors (US - Contracts with vendors, clients, employees, contractors etc. along with Indian contracts). Overall, managing for Cardinal and Carnation both, means he must serve as the main facilitators for negotiations, recommendations, record keeping, monitoring, change management, and more.

• Contract drafting, evaluation, negotiation, and execution
• He will be responsible for successfully oversee contracts from drafting all the way to execution.
• He needs to be skilled in numerous areas including legal compliance, negotiation, and relationship management.
• He will serve as the key point of contact between a business and third parties to ensure timely review and approval of any variations.
• He must provide recommendations and negotiate directly with customer attorneys to craft a final document that is satisfactory to all parties.
• Developing and implementing procedures and policies
• He will be responsible for streamlining company policies and procedures by keeping them in sync with Legal/Statuary compliances and govt laws.

Has the capacity to establish procedures for anyone involved in the contract process reduces organizational expenses and increases efficiency, as well as sets precedent for decisions down the road.

Must be having policies in place to deal with independent contractors, customers, and employees helps maintain best practices, provide a baseline for accountability expectations, and protect against legal, regulatory, and liability issues.

Keeping these policies and procedures adhered to is streamlined with a contract lifecycle management platform. Setting up templates and approval workflows solidifies and simplifies processes across an organization. Access rights and organizational structure ensures all users can only see and create the documents they need to.

Maintaining complete records on the entire procurement and contract administration processes helps when other departments need relevant and authorized information and is made much simpler through digitization.

• Must Have: -
• Should have contract management experience, excellent negotiation skills, working with legal and business teams, management experience.
• Should have 5+ years of relevant legal experience. Should have experience in drafting contracts.
• We will need at least overlap till 1 pm EST for this role.
• Law degree is a plus.

Requirements

Required Skills/Experience

• 8+ years of progressive experience in HCL WebSphere Commerce v7, v8, v9, WebSphere Application Server, Rational Application Developer/Eclipse, DB2.
• Experience with microservices, containers, and Orchestration frameworks (K8S).
• 8+ years of experience in Java J2EE Technology experience specifically: JSP, Servlet, EJB, AOP, JMS, Java Mail, SQL, JDBC, and Struts.
• Experience in working with Kafka, Redis, Elastic Search, Akamai, etc.
• Knowledge of ‘Headless’ architecture – e.g. REACT/ NodeJS / GraphQL
• Open source API knowledge (Apache, ant, axis, commons, Unit, xerces)
• Experience with jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Dojo, Angular JS, and React JS
• Experience with continuous integration technologies: Jenkins or QuickBuild and GitHub
• Knowledge or experience in the application configuration
• Service Oriented Architecture - SOAP / REST
• Web Technologies - HTML/CSS/Bootstrap
• Rapid prototyping
• Extensive experience working in an AGILE workflow model.
• System Performance management
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Strong oral/written communication skills
• Knowledge of Mobile technologies – PhoneGap/Cordova / iOS / Android / Java / HTML5 a plus