Contracts Manager
Company: Impossible Foods
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: January 19, 2023
Job Description:
Impossible Foods was founded to transform the global food system
and reduce the impact of climate change by making the world's most
delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat, fish, and dairy - from
plants. We're building a rockstar team of brilliant, collaborative,
mission-driven individuals who take pride in using their diverse
skills to contribute to saving our planet. - Want to join the
movement? You can help us solve the most urgent, important
challenge facing the world today (and have fun doing it). We are
looking for a Contracts Manager to join our Global Commercial and
Employment Legal group. The ideal candidate has experience
reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a broad range of commercial
contracts. This role will be the initial contact for our
cross-functional business partners in helping them understand what
we do and why we do it. As such, you will guide, mentor, and lead
our business team members to ensure they have a positive experience
interacting with our legal group. To be successful in this role,
you must partner closely with our internal business team members,
work efficiently through large volumes of agreements, and be
proactive in developing and memorializing our processes and systems
to support the business in scaling globally. You Will
- Assess requests for agreements and review, draft, and negotiate
a high-volume of commercial agreements, amendments, renewals, and
terminations, including NDAs, consulting services agreements,
technology agreements, human resources agreements, and IT
agreements.
- Monitor the commercial legal email inbox and other intracompany
communications platforms, fielding questions and providing
mentorship to business partners on processes and workflows.
- Lead in the development of trainings for business partners on
legal processes and new initiatives.
- Review and audit workflows to ensure our contract system's
reporting is valid and help identify areas needing
improvement.
- Proactively develop and employ innovative solutions to
challenging legal and operational issues to empower and enable the
business to scale globally, while mitigating risk exposure to the
organization and maintaining compliance with company
directives.
- Work with members of the Global Commercial and Employment Legal
team to develop and improve applicable forms, templates, processes,
and procedures.You Have
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university (A
paralegal certificate and MBA or JD is preferred). -
- Minimum 5 years experience with a broad range of commercial
agreements as a transactional paralegal or contracts manager
in-house or at a law firm. -
- Team-oriented, organized, and "business-first" perspective that
thrives in a fast-paced work environment. -
- Strong attention to detail and interpersonal skills. -
- Experience working with contract management systems and/or
workflow systems, with a preference for operational support of
these systems. -
- Sophisticated knowledge of Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.
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- Familiarity with Google G-Suite, DocuSign, and Ironclad is
helpful. -
- An understanding of California law. Impossible Foods Inc. is an
equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, religion,
color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
status as a protected veteran, status as a qualified individual
with a disability, or any other trait protected by law. -
Impossible Foods offers opportunities to all job seekers including
job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable
accommodation to assist with your application for employment or
interview process, please contact us by sending an email to
recruiting@impossiblefoods.com or call 855-877-6365. Resumes or CVs
submitted to this email inbox will not be accepted. If the ability
to work remotely is indicated, this role can be performed from any
US state except for Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and
Wisconsin.
Keywords: Impossible Foods, Redwood City , Contracts Manager, Executive , Redwood City, California
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