Description:

A Brief Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a growing, dynamic, friendly legal department of a fast-paced IT systems integrator, supporting sales transactions for the company's commercial customers. Our legal team keeps pace with a rapidly growing and evolving company and industry, whilst providing practical advice while achieving business results. WWT hires individuals that share our values and embrace and demonstrate our culture within an environment of diversity and inclusion of people and thoughts. This position will report directly to the Chief Counsel – Global Service Provider.

Responsibilities:

Be prepared to act as lead internal counsel to the Global Service Provider line of business of a US multinational corporation
Provide legal advice in connection with commercial transactions in the United States
Negotiate commercial contracts with a significant volume of sales/revenue agreements supporting our business
Support compliance with laws, rules, and regulations, as applicable and will create and train employees on business and legal issues that allows them to identify and mitigate risks by exercising sound judgment in achieving sales goals.
Work directly with the business, providing day-to-day advice for business members on contracting issues, resolving issues that arise in existing relationships, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries.

Qualifications:

Juris Doctorate required.
A minimum of 4 years' progressive experience in a related field required.
Must be a licensed attorney and have a law degree from a reputable law school.
4+ years of focused transactional commercial legal experience including specific experience with technology transactions.
Prior in-house experience with a multinational corporation
Should have substantive legal knowledge and the ability to counsel Sales and other key stakeholders in the following areas: technology contracts, general commercial sales terms, data privacy and information security, intellectual property. Experience with wholly owned government entity tenders preferred.
Should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision.
Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment across departments and geography in a collaborative and cooperative manner.
Demonstrate the core and job category competencies: Customer-focused, results-driven, teamwork, communications, adaptability, initiative and problem-solving.
Be proactive, able to provide innovative solutions that balance legal and business concerns, enjoy working hard and being challenged, have strong written and oral communication skills, demonstrate sound and pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations.
Ability to identify transactional issues, recognize and allocate risk and effectively negotiate and draft contracts and other transaction related documents.
Ability to write and speak clearly and coherently in a manner that can be understood by internal business partners.
Ability to quickly assimilate facts and circumstances to best determine appropriate negotiation response that increases transaction closure timeframes.
Ability to manage and direct outside counsel, as appropriate, including managing to a budget.
Travel up to 25% of the time.