Contracts Counsel

Job Description:

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Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Review, interpret, draft, revise, strategize, and negotiate credit union contracts consistent with credit union policies and objectives.
2. Provide timely, concise, competent, and strategic legal advice to business units in all aspects of contracting related risks simultaneously working to facilitate long-term relationships with third parties. Continuously work to incorporate business unit feedback and contractual requirements in all assigned contract reviews.
3. Maintain accurate and updated reports on negotiation and contracting status.
4. Support the Assistant General Counsel – Vendor Management with credit union contract template and form creation and maintenance.
5. Support the Assistant General Counsel – Vendor Management with the evolution of vendor management tools, databases, and other technological platforms to drive toward efficiencies and productivity.
6. Utilize the vendor management core system to ensure transparency of process, data integrity, risk mitigation and continuous monitoring, and maintain an organized record.
7. Manage numerous projects and complex matters simultaneously under strict deadline pressure while maintaining consistent and clear status updates to vendor management leadership and business lines.
8. Other duties, both legal and non-legal in nature, as requested by the Assistant General Counsel – Vendor Management.
9. Prioritize and maintain active participation in applicable continuing legal education classes with a willingness to continue to advance competencies in other areas of contracting including third party risk management and global data privacy.
10. Aids other members of the vendor management team.
11. Actively bring a positive attitude and wide degree of creativity and latitude to each task as assigned.