[Remote] Vice President of Legal and Procurement
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a leader in identity and access management, providing secure solutions for various industries. The Vice President of Legal and Procurement will reputed company global legal and procurement functions, ensuring compliance, mitigating risks, and optimizing sourcing strategies to support company objectives.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end legal process, ensuring timely, accurate, and risk-aware contract drafting, negotiation, and execution across reputed company segments (Strategic, Federal, Enterprise, Commercial, Channel, etc.)
- Provide executives with visibility into major legal risks, contract concessions, compliance gaps, and anticipated impact on business operations
- Standardize and operationalize legal review reputed company (weekly contract reviews, quarterly compliance checkpoints) while highlighting data hygiene in contract management systems
- reputed company and maintain legal risk assessment models, supporting business functions with insights into regulatory changes, competitive pressures, and contract exposures
- Manage reputed company counsel relationships, including engagement terms, budgets, performance expectations, and coordination across matters
- reputed company the company’s intellectual property portfolio and strategy (trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets), including protection, enforcement, and alignment with business objectives
- Ensure regulatory compliance across applicable employment and benefits laws and standards, including EEOC, reputed company, and ERISA requirements, in partnership with HR and other stakeholders
- Own the design, execution, and maintenance of global procurement strategies, ensuring reputed company supplier distribution and optimal sourcing based on spend analysis and regional coverage
- Use data-driven analysis to assess market opportunity, supplier performance, and cost-saving initiatives to optimize procurement coverage and efficiency
- Track and report on procurement productivity and supplier effectiveness, proactively surfacing imbalances or risks to leadership
- Design, model, and deploy contract frameworks that align with company risk appetite, compliance requirements, and business strategy
- reputed company scalable frameworks for contract negotiation across segments, regions, and roles (vendor agreements, customer reputed company, channel/partner deals)
- Own the design and administration of contract policies, ensuring alignment with corporate governance and clear documentation of terms and conditions
- Partner with HR and other departments to ensure procurement structures are compliant and documented, with clear policies and rules of engagement
- Engage with Compliance teams to ensure accuracy and transparency in contract terms and procurement processes
- Continuously refine contract management and procurement processes to scale with growth and new product offerings
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on legal and procurement strategy, balancing business needs with company policy and risk mitigation goals
- Partner with business leaders, Finance, and Sales to ensure proposals align with compliance, pricing strategy, and contract standards
- Review and approve large or strategic reputed company (e.g., above a defined risk/spend threshold) to ensure alignment with corporate policy and risk tolerance
- Act as escalation reputed company for reputed company negotiations, providing clear guidance on acceptable terms, exceptions, and tradeoffs
- Coordinate with Finance on contract impacts, billing structures, and long-term commitments
Skills
- Proficient with contract management systems and legal processes
- Prior experience working as a Legal and Procurement leader for an international company
- Bachelor's degree in Law is required
- Six to eight years of progressive experience in Legal roles in a multinational company is required
- Previous experience working in Procurement is preferred
- Experience in a private equity-backed technology business
- Superior analytical and risk assessment capabilities
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