Contracts Paralegal
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Contracts Paralegal drafting and negotiating commercial agreements for PMI. Managing contract lifecycle workflows, records, templates, and process-improvement projects.
Responsibilities:
- Independently review, draft, negotiate, red-line, finalize, and manage commercial contracts, including master services agreements, non-disclosure agreements, licenses, and cooperation agreements
- Manage the contract review process from initial request through execution
- Collaborate with business teams to ensure timely contract review and execution
- Guide PMI employees on contract workflows, standard language, clauses, and review timelines
- Participate in inter-departmental project teams as the Legal Department representative and contracts subject matter expert
- Independently resolve internal contract-related issues affecting commitments to external stakeholders
- Obtain Director of Legal Services or General Counsel approval when compromises are required
- Perform contract administration, document preparation, workflow coordination, and contract-record maintenance
- Identify opportunities to improve contract processes and user experience
- Collaborate with Legal Operations on approved improvements
- Lead projects to improve contracting processes, templates, and playbooks
- Serve as a power user and first-level troubleshooter for PMI’s Contract Lifecycle Management platform
Requirements:
- Bachelors’ Degree in Business, Communications, or another relevant area of study
- Paralegal certification and experience desirable
- Law firm or in-house legal department experience required
- Minimum of 6+ years’ experience in contract review and development work
- Demonstrated successful experience with high quality, high volume contract processing
- Sophisticated knowledge and skill in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts; experience in the not-for-profit sector a plus
- Strong experience using Microsoft Office applications
- Advanced Microsoft Word skills required
- Experience using a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform to support commercial contracting workflows required
- Experience with Icertis and Jira strongly preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Sound understanding of contract law
- Ability to interpret and apply policy and established standards consistently
- Ability to lead special projects related to contract lifecycle management improvements
- Ability to independently conduct assigned work with minimal supervision
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Excellent command of the English language
- Ability to accurately proofread documents
- Highly developed organizational skills and attention to detail
- Willingness to travel up to 5%

















