Counsel - Procurement

**Counsel - Procurement**: at Coursera
- India
- Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with more than 100 million registered learners. Coursera partners with 275+ leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.**Job Overview**:

- Legal and Compliance is responsible for managing all legal and regulatory matters, including contracts, corporate governance, general compliance, academic compliance, employment law matters, intellectual property, product counselling, government relations, and claims. The team includes dedicated teams that support every aspect of Coursera's platform, including university, enterprise and industry partnerships. You will provide legal advice and support for company-wide procurement within an evolving and growing environment, while contributing to processes and systems to ensure efficient contract life cycle management operations.**Responsibilities**:

- Act as legal advisor and manage a variety of legal matters pertaining to vendor contracts and other aspects of global procurement within Coursera, including counselling on collateral matters such as confidentiality, vendor qualification, contract enforcement, damages, claim handling, and dispute resolution processes.
- Draft, negotiate, and provide strategic advice and counsel on a broad range of global procurement arrangements and supporting business teams to secure favorable contracts with suppliers and guard against legal risks
- Assist in the improvement of existing processes for procurement and sourcing to drive best practices in supplier relationships and deliver first class supply contracts and legal advice relating to procurement matters in a collaborative, professional, and timely manner
- Assist in the implementation and communication of policies, processes and procedures to govern a supplier contract throughout its life-cycle
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders throughout the vendor engagement process
- Stay abreast of and contribute to sourcing and procurement’s professional trends and functional innovation particularly around legal and contractual matters

**Basic Qualifications**:

- LLB/LLM with 5+ years experience in procurement, contract law & or commercial agreements required, preferably with prior in-house experience as well as cross border and US experience, which is required
- Exemplary ability to lead and execute on all phases of complex vendor transactions, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating services, technology, marketing, licensing, SaaS and other supply chain agreements
- Demonstrated ability to balance legal and business considerations, problem solve, and operate at a high level in a fast-paced, international, high-growth technology company
- Highly polished and effective verbal and written communication skills, including those suitable for interaction with senior management and executives, with the ability to influence and persuade
- Proven ability to accurately assess risk and to identify and implement actions to mitigate risk

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 7+ years of broad procurement (with U.S. experience) and general corporate experience obtained through a combination of law firm and in-house practice
- Strong and astute negotiation skills, with impeccable judgment, integrity and commitment to ethics, Business fluency in English with a high level of written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the company
- Operate autonomously with an ability to lead a functional area while being a team player who brings a positive, “can do” attitude to the workplace and works collaboratively with other members of the Legal and Compliance team and with internal stakeholders
- Proficiency with contract management systems
- Demonstrated project management skills

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- #LI-MJ1- Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any