Associate, Legal & Contract Operations (EMEA) at S&P Global

About the Job

The Role: Responsible for supporting the management and organization of SPGMI Legal. Primary functions will be to assist and provide legal and administrative support to the global team. The role will also assist business colleagues in using the various contract tools, including the contracts database and other office applications.

• What’s in it for you: This role will have the opportunity to be creative and help streamline the “Customer Buying Experience”. The individual who fills this role will have an inside-out purview of the contracts lifecycle, and have a chance to be involved from the ground up in the development of the Contracts database on Salesforce.com. The position assists the Department in making a significant contribution to the processing and data basing of contracts, but also in analyzing unique business and intellectual property issues specific to SPGMI. The role provides the individual exposure to the business legal issues as well as the technology that supports the department.

Required Skills

• Excellent organizational skills.
• Knowledge of databases and licensing agreements.
• Computer Skills- Microsoft applications, knowledge of Salesforce.com a plus
• Good interpersonal skills – Work cooperatively with members of department and business colleagues.
• Strong data analysis skills and experience working with relational database technologies is preferred but not required
• Ability to comprehend contracts and legal terms and conditions
• Good verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to work independently and show initiative.

What We’re Looking For

• If you are an experienced legal/contracts professional, who is devoted to providing excellent support to the business, and at the same time passionate about solving problems and finding ways to establish best practices at S&P Global; this is an excellent opportunity. I am looking for someone with a diverse combination of legal, business, and technical skills that include: process development, data quality activities, contracts reconciliation, KPI and report development, and maintaining accurate data within the contracts database platform used by S&P Global.

Responsibilities

• Respond to internal client inquiries (“hotline”) regarding legal and contract issues in a timely manner.
• Review submitted deal requests; includes checking draft contracts produced by Sales or other internal clients; may include making Minor Changes to contract documents as per existing scope set by Legal Operations team.
• Perform data entry of executed contracts into the contracts database. Perform accurate and timely review of key business and legal provisions in executed contract and entering such provisions in the contracts database
• Investigating contract administrative issues (e.g. determining whether a contract is still “active” or being billed by PIMS); interfacing with both the sales administration staff and other business staff to determine status of contracts 2023-05-03T21:16:53.815+00:00 S&P Global Market Intelligence