EY Law – Contract Solutions – Manager

The Opportunity

Legal departments and the corporate functions they support are facing significant pressure to demonstrate greater efficiency and value. New regulations, technologies and events are prompting corporations to explore new ways to enable their functions, reduce costs and provide value through optimized contracting services. The investment in legal services, including AI, is at the center of the growth strategy for EY Law. As a Manager, you’ll be at the heart of that goal. It’s a role with far-reaching implications, so you’ll be working with stakeholders across industries with some of the most innovative technologies available and learning from industry experts.

At EY, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

We currently have a career opportunity for a Manager in our US EY Law practice. Our Legal Transform and Operate/Contract Solutions team works with clients to improve the performance of enterprise contracting operations and add value to the overall organization. Contract Solutions serves high-profile, national and multinational clients across the globe. We are a growing, dynamic practice with excellent opportunities for career development.

Skills and Attributes for success

• Leading delivery of project-based engagements involving contract review, abstraction, analysis, and remediation services in response to client transactions and other triggering events
• Create executive summaries of executed contracts to enable client business teams’ understanding of risk and compliance with positions
• Review, redlining, and negotiation of broad range of contract types including procurement and sale of services, technology, data, content and products
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to mitigate identified risks in the contract language being negotiated and ensure the commercial objectives are fulfilled within the stipulated timeframe
• Understand and work within client specific processes and negotiation strategies
• Communicate independently with the client’s business and legal stakeholders with a view to building/strengthening relationships.
• Work within a team to ensure service delivery in accordance with the agreed project scope, ensuring overall client satisfaction and compliance with SLAs, and actively identifying client needs
• Lead regular communication forums involving internal and external stakeholders
• Serve as point of escalation for the project team to address both technical and people management issues
• Work to understand, implement and facilitate use of Contract Management technologies and AI point solutions to enable delivery services and address client needs.
• Innovate and improve upon current processes and techniques including in relation to workflow, time and knowledge management.
• Facilitate reporting via daily/weekly/monthly metrics packs to internal and external project stakeholders, including members of senior management

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 to 7 years of experience in (including combination of) a large multinational corporation, law firm, or management consulting firm
• Membership in good standing with a State Bar or relevant certifications (e.g., CPA, CIPP/E, CIPPM, CISA, CISSP, CISM, LPIP, PMP)
• Deep contracting subject matter expertise; ability to work with different contract types and structures and strong issue spotting ability
• Contract negotiation experience handling volumes across a variety of transactions; ideally on both the buy and sell side
• Experience leading workstreams in large data-driven engagements
• Strong communication, writing and interpersonal skills at all levels, including presentation skills, both formal and informal
• Familiarity working with contracting/ CLM technology and an interest in developing and utilizing leading AI applications
• Highly responsive to the needs of both internal (including reporting managers, other project managers and team members) as well as external clients
• Strong relationship and people leadership skills – be a team player, facilitate encourage different points of view and effectively manage any associated conflict
• High energy, self-starter, ability to work independently, analytical, quick learner, organized, flexible to change and drives results
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and project management skills are desirable

Ideally you'll also have

• JD or master’s degree in a preferred field (Information Systems, Business, Analytics, Finance, or Accounting)
• Experience working with legal-adjacent functions (e.g., procurement, supply chain, commercial) and understanding of non-legal business objectives