Are you process-driven and customer-focused?

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to deliver on goals?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

As the contracts specialist for the Government segment, you will be joining the team responsible for reviewing and negotiating agreements with federal, state, and local government entities on behalf of our sales team. This unique role involves ensuring compliance with government regulations and policies, as well as coordinating with internal stakeholders, especially with corporate counsel,  to support the company's strategic objectives. The specialist also plays a key role in maintaining relationships with government clients and facilitating the procurement process.

Responsibilities

Provides first-level review on signature requests for agreements and other legally significant instruments for government markets (Federal, State, and Local).

Manages queue of contract review to ensure that SLAs (service level agreements) and KPI (key performance indicators) are met or exceeded.

Liaises with corporate counsel to ensure proper and prompt legal reviews of government agreements.

Acts as authorized company representative for strategic selling instruments (Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Indefinite Duration Indefinite Quantity Contracts(IDIQs), Blanket Purchase Agreements(BPAs), and GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contracts (GSA MAS).

Assists in ensuring sales team compliance with government-sales specific regulations.

Requirements

Have a BA_BS, JD preferred

Be an excellent team player and use professional discretion in responding to customer requests

Be able to work well under deadlines

Have impeccable time management skills and the ability to triage tasks

Be customer focused with high attention to detail

Be an exceptional communicator both written and verbally

Work in a way that works for you

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.  We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working For You

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

● Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
● Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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