EY Law - Solutions - Senior - FY

Location:

New York City Metro, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Hoboken, Iselin, Chicago

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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 Senior, 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.

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior 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.

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.

Major areas where the individual provides assistance include:

• Supporting 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

• Participate in regular communication forums involving internal and external stakeholders

• 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

• Bachelor’s degree with 3 to 5 years of experience in (including combination of) a large multinational corporation, law firm, or management consulting firm

• 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 work streams in large data‑driven engagements

• Strong communication, writing and interpersonal skills at all…