Join the Thomson Reuters General Counsel’s Office as a Paralegal & Operations Analyst, Customers & Commercial, within the Centers of Excellence and Knowledge Management team.
The Paralegal & Commercial Operations Analyst is part of a large global team of lawyers supporting our Commercial functions.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Paralegal & Operations Analyst, you will:
- Work with other members of the team, help to maintain legal know-how, contract templates, contract clauses, and fallback provisions
- Assist with managing contract repositories and legal know-how resources
- Become a subject matter expert on processes and policies
- Assist with the editing of various order forms, templates, playbooks and policies
- Perform contract review for non-standard clauses, and help build databases for managing these clauses
- Provide training to sales teams on how to use contracting tools & know-how resources
- Create tools such as training presentations and checklists related to the contracting process
- Collaborate with business stakeholders on joint processes and projects
- Draft, review and negotiate simple or straightforward commercial agreements, including software licenses, software as a service, professional services, statements of work, service and maintenance schedules, NDAs, and similar contract documentation
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Paralegal & Operations Analyst if you have:
- Understanding of contract structure and contract terms and their meaning
- Interest in legal know-how and knowledge management
- Interest in technology, including new and emerging technologies
- Legal experience (e.g., law firm or corporate law department) or paralegal or equivalent certification a plus but not required
- High attention to detail and organizational skills
- Fluency in English
- Excellent written communication, grammar, and editing skills
- Ability to translate work into digital forms to create efficiencies
- Strong business acumen
- Strong Microsoft Word and Sharepoint capabilities
- College degree
What’s in it For You?
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
- Our Culture: hybrid work environment; emphasis on people diversity and environmental sustainability; robust learning opportunities; cohesive, supportive and smart colleagues
- Learning & Development: robust learning opportunities, CLEs, additional project opportunities across the company
- Benefits: Competitive benefits package, bonus eligibility
- Social Impact: Pro bono and volunteer opportunities, including allotment of work hours to do so
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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