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Paralegal – Contracts Manager Jobs in Houston, TX at The Emery Company
Job Overview:
This position is responsible for supporting the legal department and staff attorneys related to all corporate legal matters. Areas of responsibility include evaluating legal/contractual documents for compliance with terms and conditions, legal correspondence with our customers, legal evaluations, litigation, and monitoring sensitive risk/financial related data for trending. This position reports to the VP Legal Services.
Duties and responsibilities:
· Support corporate attorneys in reviewing, negotiating and drafting i) service agreements; ii) vendor agreements; iii) real estate agreements; and iv) other cash management agreements. Responsible for ensuring contract terms and conditions meet the company’s contracting requirements
· Frequent interaction with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, vendors, landlords, and others along with external counsel
· Routing legal notices and correspondence to the appropriate internal departments
· Limited contract review, revision and redlining (depending on experience)
· Performing document and contract management
· Processing contract amendments
· Litigation support
· Supporting negotiation of Non-Disclosure Agreements
· Responding to various legal requests from sales teams
· Support research regarding legal contracting and contract management tools
· Responding to internal requests for contractual templates
· Assist with contract dispute tracking and analysis
· Compliance
o Supporting review and processing of legal invoices
o Supporting with departmental project audits
o Auditing petty cash (receipting process)
o Licensing issues
· Other duties as assigned.
Skills and responsibilities:
· College degree with paralegal experience in handling corporate legal work, including real estate, contract negotiation, litigation, employment preferred
· Minimum of five years paralegal or contracts manager experience required
· Experience in either transportation or financial services industries a plus
· Excellent technical skills to include Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
· Experience in an environment that requires multi-tasking and strong organizational skills
· Proven written and oral communication skills
Pay: $95,000.00 – $102,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
Title: Paralegal – Contracts Manager
Company: The Emery Company
Location: Houston, TX
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