Contracts Executive - Remote, United Kingdom - Claranet

Claranet
Claranet
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Remote, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About The Role:


Position Summary


The Contracts Executive will be primarily responsible for assisting the Legal Counsel Lead and the wider Legal team with all supplier and customer contracting across Claranet UK.


Role Mission
Claranet UK's strategy is to create repeatable and scalable solutions for our customers.

The role of the Contracts Executive is to establish the standardisation of legal agreements and contracts, enabling efficiency and consistency of approach to customer growth, success management and managed service offerings.


Objectives and Key Results

  • In conjunction with the Legal Counsel Lead continuously evolve the contracting process to enable efficiency through a repeatable and scalable model.
  • Support Legal Counsel with Legal inbox queries, allocation and taking ownership of appropriate matters.
  • Ensure that legal queries are addressed and completed effectively and efficiently with a primary focus on customer contracts.

Essential duties and responsibilities

  • Assist with the preparation, review, negotiation and finalisation of contracts and related legal documents with a key focus on customer commercial contracts and other associated activities to deliver a streamlined customer commercial contract legal review process.
  • Guided by the Legal Counsel Lead and Legal Counsel, provide contract interpretation and advice to all functions across the business on any matters that are legal in nature but primarily contract related.
  • Effectively address Legal inbox matters working closely with all stakeholders to deliver a timely response, with a focused priority on customer contract queries.
  • Work with the Legal Counsel Lead and the Legal Counsel to prepare weekly reports on P1, P2 and P3 matters, including the progression, identify any significant issues, delays or concerns for review by Legal Counsel Lead or the Head of Procurement, Legal and Compliance.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all contracts and legal resources are accessible to all internal users at the appropriate level, including implementing improvements on an ongoing basis or as directed from time to time.
  • Actively seeks ways in conjunction with the Legal Counsel Lead and other stakeholders to streamline legal processes.

Desirable Skills

  • Flexible and creative to take considered risks.
  • Learn and adapt quickly to changing situations.
  • Selfmotivated and able to work under pressure.
  • Ability to travel to different sites and locations on a weekly basis
  • Manages and engages challenges in an open and constructive manner.
  • Customer focused.

Teams to collaborate with
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All UK teams - the provision of Legal services as detailed above across the business.


About You:


Behavioural competencies - organisational and behavioural fit.

  • Active listening to understand the needs of many stakeholders.
  • Customer focused, attention to detail, strict adherence to direction and administratively competent.
  • Able to engage and communicate in a variety of circumstances and stakeholders.

Critical competencies - technical fit

  • A paralegal role or equivalent experience or have basic working knowledge of commercial law in practice.
  • Ability to manage a high workload at pace.
  • Law degree, LLM or LPC preferable.
  • Desire to establish a career in legal practice inhouse.
  • Strong commercial orientation with a desire to learn about new technologies.

About Us:


About Claranet
At Claranet, we're experienced in implementing progressive technology solutions which help our customers solve their epic business challenges. We're committed to understanding their problems, delivering answers quickly, and making a lasting impact to their business.

We are agile, focused and experienced in business modernisation.

Our approach helps customers make genuine, significant shifts in their business strategy, to deliver financial savings, boost innovation, and create a resilient business.

We continually invest in our people and the latest technologies, so our customers get peace of mind knowing that they have access to the best talent and services.

In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Gloucester, Warrington, Bristol, and Leeds, or as homeworkers.


Working for Claranet


Here at Claranet we pride ourselves on going the extra mile for and with our employees (yes, we really mean with).

We offer an extensive benefits package that you can tailor to your needs, inclusive of a matching contribution pension scheme, healthcare, insurance, dental, discounted gyms and app supported benefit access.


But what we think makes us different is 'Team Claranet,' our dedicated internal part of the business that supports you with matters close to your heart.

We proudly support local charities in each of our office locations, support employees with paid charity leave, organise key charity fundraising event per year and have a dedicated committee responsible for supporting employee's fundraising efforts.

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