Paralegal

Overview
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) is offering an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal to join its global Legal team. This full-time role reports to Director of Legal, EMEA based in Wilmslow, UK and is based at Waters India Global Capability Center in Bangalore, India.

The Paralegal will collaborate internationally with Legal colleagues and business stakeholders around the world, supporting all business and corporate functions across the company in a dynamic and fast-paced team environment. This role will be responsible for managing all aspects of the Corporate Legal group's matter management operating model for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions, including matter intake and assignment, system administration, and matter management reporting. The Paralegal will address contract and legal matter requests from internal business owners as well as external customers and other third parties. This role will also be part of a designated team responsible for the legal operations management of the Corporate Legal group. The successful candidate must be detail-oriented and have strong communication, process management and organizational skills to prioritize multiple tasks in a fluid, demanding work environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the intake, triage and assignment of matters requesting Legal review using the Corporate Legal group's matter management system.
• Analyze information in requests and determine appropriate document or advice required, including the review, preparation, and finalization of agreements.
• Manage the administration of the matter management system for all Corporate Legal matters, including matter management reporting. Identify problems and propose solutions to address any issues with the system.
• Serve as an interface to the Company's business units. Effectively communicate process and corporate positions and provide practical advice while minimizing risk to the Company.
• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, beta agreements and seed agreements within proscriptive guidelines and playbook positions.
• Maintain the Corporate Legal group's standard forms and templates and implement changes as required with guidance from members of the team.
• Proactively support the Corporate Legal group with administrative aspects of team management, including calendar and content management for team meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 3-5 years of experience as a paralegal and/or other proven matter and contract management experience including contract review, drafting and negotiation
• Paralegal certificate or similar qualification preferred
• Proven ability to multi-task, identify and manage competing priorities, and independently analyze and solve problems
• Accountable for accurate, high quality work product
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Self-motivated with ability to meet objectives and tight timelines with minimal direction
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Proficient with matter management systems and reporting dashboards desired

Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science .

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.