Legal Contracts Manager

Role Purpose

Deliver benefit to BRR Legal and IHG Global Procurement through supporting corporate procurement and hotel procurement sourcing and contracting teams and commercial transactions for IHG

Individual Accountabilities

• Support drafting of a variety of procurement contracts (MGA MSA, Pricing) and contracting activities related to sourcing events for the global procurement sourcing teams and category teams including  understanding complex risk issues such as privacy, data access issues, information security, choice of forms appropriate for transactions, indemnity and intellectual property implications and scenarios that will implicate the Delegation of Authority for required escalation for legal review 

• Support the sourcing teams in evaluating redlined supplier contracts, focusing on key terms necessary to IHG’s overall contracting basics/guidelines, delegation of authority and risk issues, including risk mitigation 

• Support the contract negotiations  to ensure contract terms reflect the desired commercial and legal positions 

• Initial review of supplier’s red-lines to legal terms of the standard procurement form contracts and coordinate and mark up legal comments working with senior legal team members. Run and provide comparison of contract versions using available software. 

• Provide initial review and analysis of current agreements for legal review, in particular identifying risk issues for mitigation and issues that require escalation to senior legal team members 

• Collaborate with internal team members like Privacy, Finance, Risk Management, IP, Information Security, and Procurement to align on contract terms

• Utilize contract management software to draft contracts and access contract records. Assist with training legal users on contract software. Support enhancements and changes to contract management elements  of software 

• Participate in risk mitigation efforts 

• Escalation of delegation of authority and/ or risk issues to the appropriate level within the BRR organization when encountered 

Key Shared Accountabilities

• Management of a large pipeline of commercial contract transactions in support of the sourcing teams 

• Focus on compliance and escalation of compliance issues to the appropriate level of the organization 

• Focus on risk mitigation and delegation of authority issues and escalation when encountered 

Key Metrics

• Risk assessment and issue identification 

• Strong understanding of contracts for goods and services 

• Strong contract drafting skills

• Capabilities to analyze contracts 

• Strong attention to detail  and accuracy 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Exercise sound judgment 

• Ability to manage multiple contract transactions simultaneously while prioritizing deadlines 

• Strong organizational skills 

• Risk mitigation 

Critical Knowledge and Experience

• Undergraduate or post-graduate degree in contracts and contract management, procurement and/or law

• Proven understanding of English and/or US contract law (desired but not required)

• At least 5 years’ experience as a contract manager negotiating and drafting commercial contracts

• Experience managing and running a large pipeline of commercial contracting projects

• Experience negotiating contracts for commercial deals

• Excellent analytical skills and a high level of attention to detail 

• Demonstrated understanding of procurement processes

• Demonstrated ability to issue spot and escalate 

• Excellent Microsoft office skills and procurement  S2C systems

• Excellent communication skills