Procurement Counsel

Overview:
As Procurement Counsel of the iCIMS legal team, you will have a direct impact by advising and supporting all areas of our procurement practice within the organization as we continue to transform recruiting with the iCIMS Talent Cloud. This team needs another creative problem-solver who’s maintains composure in high-pressure situations and brings outstanding judgment and creativity to devise practical advice that appropriately weighs our legal and business objectives. You’ll help us negotiate complex procurement technology and other agreements and issues relating to data privacy and security matters with name brand, global organizations, supporting all departments, including our labs organization, product, internal corporate technology services, marketing, finance, and talent. This role works closely with our key partners across our product teams, professional services, marketing, and talent to support their needs and help us develop and implement new products and business initiatives.

To succeed, you’ll need to be able to authoritatively identify multifaceted legal issues with an eye to our business needs, and devise ways for the business to forge ahead when faced with potential roadblocks. This is a phenomenal opportunity for someone to join a fast-growing, evolving technology company and help drive exciting new initiatives.

This position will be hybrid based out of our Hyderabad, India office.

About Us:
When you join iCIMS, you join the team helping global companies transform business and the world through the power of talent. Our customers do amazing things: design rocket ships, create vaccines, deliver consumer goods globally, overnight, with a smile. As the Talent Cloud company, we empower these organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent. We’re passionate about helping companies build a diverse, winning workforce and about building our home team. We're dedicated to fostering an inclusive, purpose-driven, and innovative work environment where everyone belongs.

**Responsibilities**:

- Negotiate complex global vendor contracts.
- Liaise with the procurement, privacy, and information security teams with respect to compliance and other requirements contracts.
- Review, update, and maintain the procurement and vendor agreement templates in line with market practice and iCIMS’ legal and business needs.
- Collaborate with stakeholder partners to ensure appropriate awareness and escalation of issues as they arise.
- Partner with the procurement organization to drive optimizations to improve the vendor contracts process.
- Build contract abstracts and risk summaries as needed.
- Participate in annual risk management assessment and remediation plans.
- Participate in other strategic projects and initiatives.
- Consistently ensure that business is conducted with integrity at all times and that behavior aligns with iCIMS policies, procedures, and core competencies.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of proven experience negotiating complex software as a service, software licensing, professional services, and/or other technology transactions is required.
- Ability to handle complex contracting issues while balancing a positive internal partner and external vendor experience.
- Experience in researching and analyzing federal, state, local and international laws.
- Ability to work independently, while being a collaborative member of the team.
- Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with the management team, and company employees.
- Ability to mentor peers in areas of expertise.
- Demonstrated success in displaying passion, drive, adaptability and innovation.
- Proficient in the MS Office Suite.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, growing organization.
- Proven track record of success in building solid working relationships within various areas/business functions of the company.

**Education/Certifications/Licenses Required**
- Bachelor's Degree and LL.B. degree from a law school accredited by the Bar Council of India is required.
- Member in good standing with the Bar Council of India is required.

Preferred:

- 5+ years of proven experience negotiating complex software as a service, software licensing, professional services, and/or other technology transactions.

EEO Statement:
iCIMS is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at iCIMS.

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