Back to SearchLooking for something else?
Find a vacancy that works for you. Send us your CV to receive a personalized offer.
Find me a job
Currently we are looking for a Senior Contract Negotiator to join our team. This role offers the chance to work on high-impact commercial engagements within a fast-paced, international environment. You'll bring structure and clarity to complex deal-making processes while partnering with stakeholders across multiple business functions. If you enjoy balancing legal precision with commercial pragmatism, this position provides an excellent platform to grow your expertise
Responsibilities
- Play a key role in supporting commercial deal pursuits across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), while also addressing general commercial matters of varying complexity that arise within this geography
- Partner closely with the DACH legal team's lawyers to support the review, drafting, negotiation, and revision of a broad range of contracts, including IT software services agreements, consulting agreements, statements of work, NDAs, DPAs, subcontractor and alliance agreements, and other in-bound commercial agreements, taking independent ownership of legal support for certain accounts as needed
- Take the lead on designated specialist responsibilities or special projects, such as developing contract templates and standard positions, enhancing contract management practices, training internal teams to ensure consistent application of relevant policies and procedures, and contributing to policy development
- Build and sustain strong working relationships with subject matter experts across Business, IT Security, Compliance, Finance, and HR
- Act as a liaison between internal business clients and other members of the global Legal team to help drive deals to efficient closure
- Coordinate with internal and external subject matter experts, including outside counsel, whenever additional input or expertise is required
Requirements
- Solid general commercial experience paired with sound, pragmatic judgment, strong drafting and writing abilities, excellent communication skills, and the capacity to manage competing priorities under pressure while working independently with speed and a strong work ethic
- A minimum of 3 years of experience working as a senior contract negotiator, or as a practicing lawyer with a background at a top-tier law firm or relevant in-house experience at a well-known IT services provider
- Demonstrated experience negotiating software development services agreements and statements of work
- Excellent English skills, with German considered a significant added advantage
- Nice to have