Manager, Contracts Management

Team Manager, Legal Contracting Centre of Excellence

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Position Summary: The Team Manager will be a key member of the Legal Contracting Centre of Excellence (CCOE) and the wider Global Legal Team, leading a team which provides legal support on a wide range of commercial contracting matters. The Team Manager will be one of three such Team Managers, reporting to the CCOE Commercial Contracting Lead.

The Legal team at Thermo Fisher has been optimising the way in which it provides legal services related to contracting for various regions including EMEA, North America, SEAT and ANZ. The particular emphasis of this role will be on:

• Working with Contract Specialists within the CCOE to perform their duties and develop their roles;
• Being a legal escalation point for CCOE Contract Specialists;
• Developing, implementing and consistently delivering service enhancements; and
• Drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.

The successful candidate should take a keen interest in process improvement and deployment and utilisation of automated legal solutions, with a view to evolving and improving how legal services are provided in Thermo Fisher Scientific. Our contract lifecycle system Malbek is the vehicle by which we perform our work, so a solid understanding of and interest in this (or similar) systems is essential.

The Team Manager will report to the Associate Corporate Counsel leading our Contracting Centre of Excellence Commercial Contracting team and will work closely with other members of the global legal teams and related functions.

Responsibilities:

• Drive process improvements in the Legal team's support of our commercial functions – proactivity and enthusiasm for change are key to success in this role;
• Review contracts in line with CCOE procedures;
• Support review of contracts by CCOE Contracts Specialists and provide strategic guidance on risk;
• Manage and support Contract Specialists in their roles, being an escalation point for questions and a source of strategic advice;
• Take an active role in the wider CCOE's process improvement and automated legal solution strategy by participating in and/or leading team projects;
• Educate and train colleagues on key contract terms and associated legal obligations; and
• Work with other members of the Corporate Legal team and the various Group and Division Counsel.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Qualification as a lawyer or significant experience in working in a contracts focussed role (preferably in-house or in a full-service international law firm).
• Proficient legal drafting skills and ability to provide pragmatic, astute advice on contractual risk under a variety of commercial contracts.
• Approachable, helpful and dynamic attitude to working within a large team.
• Considerable experience of drafting and negotiating wide range of commercial contracts.
• Some relevant line management experience preferred, but not essential.
• Strong commercial awareness and business sense, including the ability to fully engage with and influence business stakeholders.
• Ability to develop practical processes/approaches, and to drive solutions to completion.
• Ability to work with and influence senior leadership within various different functions
• Strong 'Can Do Attitude' and high self-motivation required; ability to deal with an ever changing, complex business environment; excellent communication/negotiation skills, robust and enthusiastic self-starter, excellent team player.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

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