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Senior Contracts Specialist (Waltham Hybrid)

Job Category: Legal

Location: US - Massachusetts - Waltham

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Meet Our Team:

This is a highly tactical, well-rounded group of business-minded commercial-contract professionals that play a critical role to Pega’s growth. If you are looking to join a highly talented group of professionals within a SaaS cloud services company, this is the team for you. As a key contributor to our Business Officer/commercial Legal team, you will report to a Lead Business Officer and will partner closely with Business Officers and other internal teams to support the deal cycle.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

• As a Senior Contracts Specialist, you are responsible for mission-critical contract lifecycle operations and for supporting Business Officers on commercial contracts, renewals and legal topics in client-facing discussions.

• You will work day-to-day with Business Officers, Sales, Legal, Renewal specialists, and various Finance teams to help win-business and on-board and manage commercial agreements with new and existing clients.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• Manage the internal Pega Contract process - through the pre and post signature agreement process.

• Create, review, and revise a variety of commercial and legal agreements in close coordination with and supervision by the Business Officer/commercial Legal Team and professional services personnel.

• Track and monitor quarter end deals, working closely with the commercial, legal and renewals teams to ensure all potential issues are addressed in a proactive manner prior to contract execution.

• Participate in projects to accelerate deal velocity.

Who You Are:

• You are a dependable, process-minded paralegal or contracts professional who understands the key legal and commercial aspects within a transaction and how to support a team.

• You pay attention to the details and expect top performance from yourself and your peers.

• With solid experience and a desire to learn, you are looking for an opportunity to take the next step in your career at a stable, growing, industry-leading tech company.

• Ideally, you have experience working with transactional documents which may include Cloud Master Agreements, Subscription Schedules, Data Protection Agreements and Cloud Information Security documents in order to support and assist the Business Officer/commercial legal team with drafting and revising. However, if you don’t have this prior-experience, then you are willing to learn quickly so that you support the commercial legal team.

What You've Accomplished:

• 5+ years of work experience with 2 - 3 years of professional experience in a paralegal role or a role that involves reviewing and drafting contracts and renewals.

• Proactive self-starter, demonstrated ability to perform, succeed and multi-task in a high growth environment with varying deadlines. Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong positive relationships with business stakeholders, including senior leaders.

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Ideally, knowledge of software licensing, subscription (“as-a-Service”), & professional services contracting.

• High attention to detail, strong organizational, project management and multitasking skills to manage multiple matters, to independently set own work priorities and to meet required work deadlines.

Pega Offers You:

• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment

• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

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Job ID: 21779

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