Contracts Manager - Legal

Description

About this role: 

As a Contracts Manager in our legal division, you`ll be responsible for reviewing and negotiating Sales (Consulting, Research and Conferences) and Vendor contracts in Japan; this includes interfacing with Gartner’s Consulting and Sales, Legal and Finance, and other organizations to ensure country-level compliance, alignment with internal policies, and other legal requirements.

What you’ll do:

• Support Consulting and Sales associates in commercial and public sector Client negotiations, across all forms of solicitations for Gartner e.g. RFP
• Drafting, preparing, communicating and negotiating exceptions to proposed contract terms within Corporate policies, where applicable, and assisting ancillary information requests related to contractual and business matters
• Reviewing and negotiating procurement and conference operation contracts for Gartner Conferences
• Manage Gartner’s contracts and contractual relationships within Japan
• Understand and communicate contractual requirements to internal stakeholders, including data capture of negotiated clauses
• Work closely with other Consulting and Sales support functions, such as Gartner’s  Risk Management, Deal Desk, Order Management, and Deal Hub Teams
• Conduct “issue-specific” and “new hire” training for Consulting/Sales/Conferences and other teams, as applicable.  As a member of the worldwide Legal and Compliance Team, help ensure effective communication to corporate legal, ensuring visibility into regional legal and risk matters
• Liaison with local law firms
• Collaborate with the Information Security team and review the client’s information security documents or answer the questionnaires
• Provide advice to privacy related inquiries from associates; assist renewal of privacy related qualification
• Update and maintain contract templates and policies; prepare and update written policies, guidelines, playbooks and procedures in both English and Japanese for the business units and the legal team
• Proofread the English and Japanese translated documents
• Manage implementation of new technology for contract management

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor`s degree (law preferred)
• Native-level Japanese and business-level English language ability
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Detailed knowledge of contract law
• Experience working for a multinational enterprise – ideally within an IT organization.
• Strong ability to influence others
• Excellent MS Office capabilities, including experience in analyzing data (Excel or other data analytics tools)
• Ability to develop and facilitate effective legal related processes and training programs to drive awareness
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
• Mindset to thrive in a fast-paced environment where there is a constant sense of urgency
• Experience in negotiation involving intellectual property and Privacy/Data Protection
• Proficiency in adapting to new systems and technologies, creating reports, working with data

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