Job Title:
Contract Manager
Job Description:
The purpose of this role is to provide legal, commercial, and administrative support In relation to contract requirements, procedures, training and advice. The Contract Manager will be primarily responsible for managing contracts being negotiated and entered with clients, as well as for carrying out legal and contractuak analysis and relevant strategic assessment and consulting supporting senior legal counsels and well as internal stakeholders, being knowledgeable about the details and potential benefits/risks of any of such contracts.
Main Responsibilities
Provides support in relation to drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a wide variety of commercial agreements covering a various range of transactions and areas, but generally focused on media and advertising services, IP and customer experience projects; Provides advice in connection with contracts interpretation, internal and external audits, disputes resolution and overall negotiation strategy, on a case by case basis and need; Provides wide support in relation to the management of internal Dentsu CLM tool as well as to the analysis related to clients’ contracts (e.g. complete agreement close-outs, terminations, renewals, adjustments, and extensions), as well as guidance on specific provisions and aspects as well as contract compliance requirements, also in term of setting up strategy for new business; Provides support to internal stakeholders (i.e. business, commercial-finance, finance and operation teams) during contractual negotiations with new/existing clients (such as NDAs, carrying out analysis of clients’ contracts - identifying specific terms such as conflict checks on non-compete and exclusivity provisions - and media owners as well as in the course of implementation and execution of clients’ contracts). This includes being able to efficiently provide a risk assessment of the proposed client contracts, clearly distinguishing between critical and less critical risks; Provides support to senior legal counsels in developing and delivering training and legal risk management initiatives to assist business teams and other stakeholders in managing legal risk (e.g. business trainings, legal updates, etc.) and managing contracts’ compliance; Provides general assistance with implementation of best-practices and standard documents to simplify the management of current workflows and to address new contractual needs; Performs a wide range of legal researches, analysis and drafting activities; Formulates and deploys process-related improvements with regards to the provision of legal support services, including drafting and revising template agreements and other legal training materials; Creates and proof -reads documents and presentations; Ensures that files are kept up to date with the correspondence and documents; Participates in the legal team’s marketing and networking strategies as directed and provides support to legal team organization and relevant activities (such as staff meeting management, management of activities with external legal counsels and consultants, etc.);
Helps on implementing best-practices in compliance, contract management, intellectual property, data privacy and M&A.
Requirements
Excellent communication skills and management attitudes; Team working and collaborative attitudes; Very Good analytical and risk assessment skills Business knowledge Good time management and priorities High attention to details; Good writing skills; Proficient in English - both speaking and writing;
Additional Information
Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.
Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information.
Dentsu is one of the largest marketing and advertising groups, providing a full suite of creative, data, technology and media services to its global clients in 143 countries. We empower the world’s leading brands to create better creative and customer experiences with a focus on digital and creative transformation. We are champions for innovative marketing success across a diverse portfolio of fortune 100 companies, leading organisations and clients across key iconic brands advertising globally to maximise the value of our customer portfolios to drive hyper-personalised marketing and creative strategies.
Our combined strengths in creative excellence, customer digital transformation, media and enterprise marketing technology drives our competitive advantage. This includes a wide range of services to clients across media, advertising creative, PR, television format production, sports stadium adverting, talent and influencer engagement, app and website development, game development, programmatic advertising, IT consultancy, and data products, analytics and insights.
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Location:
Brand:
Dentsu
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
About dentsu
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