Contracts Manager, Procurement – ID-1173

Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented Contracts Manager to support our rapidly growing procurement business. The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a variety of third party contractual relationships, including products and services agreements, software licensing and hosted services agreements, financial services agreements, orders, amendments, and NDAs.

 

As a member of our team you will provide day-to-day advice to business clients on transactions, processes, systems, and internal and external communications, and drive process improvements to simplify transactions from beginning to end.

 

The Candidate Must Have

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer focused, detail driven, and professional demeanor;
• A passion for building trust with internal and external stakeholders by being proactive and innovative in solving problems that affect stakeholders and customers;
• A proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload;
• The ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment, reacting with appropriate urgency to situations and events that require a quick response or turnaround, and taking effective action without knowing the whole picture;
• A desire to grow professionally as the role’s responsibility grows rapidly with the business; and
• Common sense, great judgment and a good sense of humor.

 

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of contracts management, leading contract negotiations and redlining/drafting contracts within a law firm or legal department
• Ability to invent, simplify and improve legal and contracting processes

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating the legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects at once and work independently
• Strong analytical and computer skills
• In-house experience
• Bachelor’s Degree