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Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship - a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections. Cvent is seeking an experienced Contracts Associate to join our Legal Department to support our global Commercial Legal Team. The successful candidate will work closely with our Commercial Legal Team, with responsibility for all aspects of the commercial contract operations, reporting and management.  This will necessitate working closely with Sales Operations, IT, Procurement, and Finance.
The position will report to the Manager of Legal Operations and will work closely with our Associate General Counsel, Commercial.  This individual will be expected to bring a high degree of contracts analysis and operations experience to the position, and to rely on that expertise along with sound judgment and professionalism to operate independently.  All work will require a "business" as well as a "legal" approach.

• Maintain and manage workflow and workload for the contract review process for a variety of contract types & commercial legal cases
• Manage the Sales Escalations channel and maintain a procedure for ad-hoc or urgent approvals to ensure no negative impacts on sales velocity or deal flow
• Review, interpret, draft, revise and negotiate SaaS agreements, contract addenda, NDAs, and service provider contracts.
• Work with the Commercial Legal Team to improve and maintain commercial records keeping, process documentation and workflows.
• Maintain and develop processes between the Legal Department and business units, collaborating to create efficiencies and improve the contracting process.
• Assist the sales team with review of and responses to RFPs and RFQs, offering appropriate alternatives to contract terms and conditions.
• CLM & Contract Administration: Assist the Legal Operations Team with administration of Salesforce and the Contract Lifecycle Management Tool, including:
  • Answering questions from internal stakeholders on use of CLM
  • Monitoring the attorney assignment process
  • Managing the contract archival process
  • Managing smart import of documents
  • Managing & working with Sales Operations on the signature coordination process
• All other duties as assigned

• A bachelor’s degree required with preference in Legal studies
• Minimum 2 - 4 years’ experience in contract review and analysis. SaaS experience is a plus
• Minimum of 1 year experience with a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Tool heavily preferred (Ironclad CLM preferred but other tools accepted)
• Strong personal computing skills, including proficiency with Adobe Suite & Microsoft Office products (including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required
• Familiarity with Confluence, Jira, DocuSign, Box, Salesforce, Slack and other legal department related software systems preferred
• Understanding of basic legal vocabulary and concepts
• Self-starter who is action oriented and possesses a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to comfortably work in an intensely deadline-oriented environment. Speed and accuracy are essential requirements for this position
• Strong multitasking skills to be able to move and track multiple projects to completion
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and able to work well with a team
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and professionally with all levels of management regarding contracts analysis

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