About This Role
This role involves ensuring contract integrity by evaluating their structure, risk alignment, and compliance with company standards. The specialist leads contract execution within the Sales cycle, including development, review, and risk mitigation, while driving high-quality legal and commercial outcomes. The position partners cross-functionally to enforce standards, facilitate decision-making, and ensure effective communication and alignment.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance to Sales and leadership on contract structure, risk trade-offs, and acceptable deviations
- Review contracts for risk management and service needs, including compliance with predetermined guidelines (indemnity/liability, early termination on contracts with high support costs, penalty clauses, OEM proprietary licensing restrictions, and payment terms)
- Understand Park Place's evolving services and products and participate in contract development
- Prepare and submit transactional paperwork for customers, vendors, etc.
- Draft contract language that meets company standards and customer needs
- Work to manage risks within the parameters set by the company
- Evaluate and approve non-standard contract terms within defined risk thresholds
- Maintain legal files appropriately and logically
- Independently assess legal and financial risk and determine appropriate contract modifications
- Participate in process improvement identification and implementation
- Perform legal research and analyze results
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- 1 or more years of experience in legal contract evaluation and administration
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office suite and database experience
- Effective communication skills for collaboration and communication within the team, with the Sales team and customers, and a commitment to professionalism and congeniality
- Able to multi-task and work under tight deadlines and pressure
- Ability to work productively and collaboratively with others – both onsite and remote sites
- Great attention to detail
- Experience using contract management systems, software, and policies implemented by Park Place Technologies
- Understand legal and financial risks and implications of contracts, including the entire Sales to Invoice contracting process
- Bachelor's degree required
- Law degree, paralegal degree or certificate or significant experience in contract analysis and administration required
- Exceptional English language skills, including contract drafting
Nice to have:
- Fluency in a foreign language, with strong preference for Spanish and/or Portuguese
