General Counsel

• Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and interpreting commercial agreements
• Advising business partners on legal considerations related to strategy and operations
• Coordinating with internal stakeholders and external counsel
• Providing general legal support across transactional and operational issues

Regional Business Counsel

• Contract Drafting, Review and Negotiations: Review, draft, negotiate, and revise a high volume of commercial agreements, including SaaS subscription agreements, MSAs, DPAs, NDAs, procurement agreements, and vendor contracts.
• AI and Process Innovation: Leverage AI-enabled legal tools, contract lifecycle management systems, and standardized workflows to improve productivity, consistency, and scalability of legal support.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Sales, Finance, Deal Desk, Procurement, and Executive leadership to align contract terms with strategic priorities.
• Stakeholder Support and Enablement: Provide timely, clear, and actionable legal guidance to the Sales and Customer Success teams during deal cycles.
• Regulatory and Privacy Expertise: Stay up to date on legal trends affecting the SaaS industry, including data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA.
• Risk Management: Assess legal and operational risk associated with contract terms and provide business-oriented recommendations that support efficient decision-making.

Commercial Counsel

• Collaborates with colleagues within the Conflicts, Client Engagement, and Risk Management departments to identify and resolve conflicts of interest issues.
• Directs and conducts specific processes in the Conflicts department, including efficient review, identification and resolution of conflicts of interest.
• Drafts conflicts waivers, reviews lateral candidates, and provides recommendations regarding ethical wall implementation.
• Maintains thorough and accurate records of conflicts resolutions.
• Assures compliance with applicable Rules of Professional Conduct related to conflicts of interest and client engagement agreements.

Conflicts Counsel

• Works independently to draft, review, and revise agreements, including form agreements for routine sales activities, as well as non-standard agreements for customers, supplier, distributor, clinical, service and consulting agreements.
• Learn Avantor contracting policies and analyze draft contracts in accordance with policies
• Work with Sourcing, Sales and the IT team to advise on the review of complex IT vendor agreements and digital product contracting efforts.
• Develop and support the development of playbooks and templates for consistent legal review across IT, security engagements and technology agreements.
• Assist with the review of data processing agreements.
• Ensure alignment with IT and business strategies.
• Determine when complex legal and factual issues must be escalated to senior attorneys and assist in resolution of issues
• Assist in creating, implementing and managing systems that enable the efficient creation, negotiation, oversight and ultimately execution of Avantor’s agreements
• Coordinate contract negotiation with multiple cross-departmental functions
• Obtain all appropriate and necessary internal approvals for contract terms and provisions
• Identify opportunities for process improvements
• Perform file management and records retention duties
• Give and welcome constructive feedback; contribute to building a positive team spirit
• Requires advanced abilities for contract negotiation
• Requires ability to communicate with Senior Leadership across the firm regarding legal risks and advise on possible solutions based on expertise
• Provide assistance and guidance to Contracts Specialists within department
• Perform other duties as assigned

Associate Counsel

• Advising product, engineering and design teams on legal issues related to feature development, launches, experiments and ongoing platform operations.
• Supporting legal review of new products, product changes, and technical initiatives around the Wikimedia projects.
• Supporting the draft, review and maintenance of user-facing terms, disclosures, policies, FAQs and internal guidance.
• Counseling on product, privacy, data use, consumer protection, intellectual property, accessibility, online safety and related product issues.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to identify legal risk early and develop practical, mission-aligned solutions.
• Monitoring and helping assess legal and regulatory developments that may affect Wikimedia’s projects globally.

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