COMPANY OVERVIEW

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

DESIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience providing strategic and tactical insight and thinking depending on the need of the business.
• Some experience and understanding of enterprise procurement practices, government procurement laws and associated competitive procurement practices.
• Strong analytical and communication skills (including presentation skills).
• Strong time management, prioritization and computer skills.
• Strong negotiation skills
• Experience as a negotiating both business and legal terms and conditions.
• Strong understanding of contract terms
• Ability to translate legalese into layman’s terms
• Good presentation skills.
• Ability to recognize risk, provide insightful feedback, and escalate concerns to manager, as necessary
• Ability to influence and collaborate with a variety internal business and functional leaders and external customers.
• Experience accomplishing work without considerable day-to-day direction from attorneys or other senior contract managers, but will collaborate with them as needed.
• Collaborates: Ensures understanding of how own role fits into the bigger picture, and works with others to advance individual and team goals. Seeks information and other points of view, respectfully listens and considers them, even if they are different from one’s own; and quickly responds to needs and promotes ideas with energy, urgency and personal commitment.
• Drive Results and Execution: Identifies issues and raises them so that appropriate actions can be taken to resolve problems or improve the client experience. Takes personal ownership to follow through on commitments and achieve results with high quality. Demonstrates a strong bias for action and is able to balance priorities to keep plans on track.
• Focus on Customers: Seeks feedback from customers to identify strengths and improvement opportunities. Regularly meets with customers to anticipate and understand customer needs and expectations.
• Experience in corporate transactional, contracts negotiation and/or commercial transaction experience preferably with background in technology matters, regulatory issues, or intellectual property.
• Professional certifications (e.g., Paralegal, National Contract Management Association) is a plus.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in business, pre-law, paralegal studies, or similar field with 5+ years of experience, OR Juris Doctorate degree with 3+ years of experience in corporate transactional, contracts negotiation, and/or commercial transaction experience
• OR in lieu of a degree, candidate may have 7+ years of experience as a Paralegal or corporate transactional, contracts negotiation, and/or commercial transaction experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

None

• Review, negotiate, draft and analyze routine customer contracts (bids/tenders or RFPs, reseller and distribution channel agreements, etc.)
• Assist with contract change control process, and serve as the focal point for fact-finding, negotiation and audit minutes and memorandum of agreement for contract negotiations.
• Assist with the development of streamlined, organized and efficient policies and procedures for contracts, including establishing playbooks, and standard template language to be used in contracts.
• Analyze contractual requirements, special provisions, terms and conditions to ensure contract compliance with applicable laws and regulations and internal company policies and procedures.
• Advise and coordinate with multiple stakeholders across marketing, product, finance, implementation and sales throughout the pre-sales, sales and post-contract cycle on a broad range of legal and compliance issues for the Motorola Solutions portfolio of products and services.
• Prepare contract amendments, work authorizations, change orders and proposals, and other related contract documents.
• Brief manager on proposals and negotiations
• Serve as a liaison for regulatory and compliance matters
• Assist with/prepare business and legal filings, as needed
• Administer and maintain customer and internal correspondence and other communications, prepare status reports, and assure contract submittals are made in a timely and coordinated manner consistent with customer and business requirements.
• Identify and recommend improvements to processes
• Obtain approvals from key stakeholders and leadership, as necessary
• May conduct research to support corporate/financial audits.
• Work closely with compliance teams to assist with routine processes including, but not limited to; audits, deliverables, certifications, and systems.
• Works autonomously and seeks management input for high complexity issues and matters that may post some legal, financial and/or reputational risk to the company.
• Exercises reasonable judgment to determine when to escalate complex matters or decisions to manager.