Contracts Specialist

Contract Manager

Are you detailed focused and enjoy advising on rights and permissions

Would you like to join a company that helps advance science, technology and health

About Our Team

Data Source Management helps our communities accelerate knowledge for a better world by helping to establish, discover and advance knowledge. We do this by turning scientific discoveries into peer reviewed knowledge, hosting the world's richest corpus of knowledge, allowing users to unlock insights from content and by measuring the quality and impact of research - turning insights into outcomes.

About The Role

The role is responsible for the management and organization of complex and potentially high-risk rights and permissions contracts. You will be collaboration with other Data Operations Teams, Sales, Product, Legal, and external third-party content providers. The focus of the role is enabling compliant, successful commercial outcomes, customer satisfaction around contracting. You will also need to be able to develop a strategic view of how new Legal toolkits and AI service play a role in enhancing efficiencies across the end-to-end rights and permissions lifecycle.

This Contract Manager will be working with the Publishing Relationship Managers to negotiate, create, review, and manage third party publisher contracts (Elsevier third party licenses / Efeed contracts) and permission forms while ensuring compliance with copyright laws, intellectual property rights, and industry and regional regulations.

You will support key stakeholders with general legal questions on rights and permissions and contract creation and commercial negotiation support. You will create relevant documentation, leveraging internal policies and legal toolkits to support the third-party engagements on rights and permissions and to build our external business partner relationships. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the way we work with 3PP (Content Partners), and to build contracting strategies, enhance publishing collaborations, and ensure legal and commercial success.

Responsibilities

• Contract Management : Support contract negotiations, perform contract management and customer contact, as necessary, to provide proper contract fulfilment, aligning with company policies, legal, and customer requirements. Working with third party content providers, Legal, Product, and Operations to develop, review feed contract requirements.
• Stakeholder Management : Managing executed contracts by working closely with the Product teams and Operations to identify, develop and negotiate work required by the third-party content provider that is outside of the signed contract.
• Process Optimization and Documentation : Support the preparation of contracts, amendments & renewals. Customizes documents to accurately reflect services to be provided, oversees finalization of documents and distributions to the third-party content provider and internal departments. Identifying, developing, and implementing strategies for increasing efficiencies on assigned projects.
• Compliance and Risk assessment : Ensuring that contractual documentation complies to applicable law and Elsevier and RELX policies. Recognizing and escalating matters that create significant risks to the business.
• Self-Organized : Working independently, consulting with senior members of the Legal and Operations team and business stakeholders as appropriate.
• Legal Knowledge : Excellent organizational skills, high-level understanding of contract management, detail-oriented, capable of designing, implementing and maintaining efficient processes.

Requirements

Work in a way that works for you

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, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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

Working for You

About The Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals' advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

Skills Required

Legal Knowledge, Contract Management, conga