Description:
The legal department of Cogent Communications seeks a contracts specialist to work with the legal team at Cogent’s headquarters in Washington, DC. This is an in-office position and does not have a remote or hybrid work option. You will be joining a small legal department consisting of four lawyers, three legal assistants and the company’s corporate secretary.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- This position is responsible for the negotiation and the management of commercial contracts. More specifically, this position will support Cogent’s specific contract needs including, but not limited to, telecommunications service agreements, right of way agreements, licensing agreements, statements of work, and/or vendor contracts and forms.
- Your primary daily responsibilities will be to draft, review and negotiate contracts according to Cogent’s strategy and appropriate terms and conditions. You will coordinate with internal legal counsel, subject matter experts, and business unit/support organization management for acceptance of any non-standard agreement terms where and when necessary. You will be responsible for all aspects of the contract from agreement review, drafting and negotiating to document execution and filing.
- Additional responsibilities include: reviewing orders and statements of work to ensure compliance and conformity with the underlying agreements and review and summary of pertinent provisions of existing agreement; and working with the legal assistants to maintain contract databases and documentation, ensuring accurate record-keeping and retrieval of contract-related information.
- This position offers a significant amount of responsibility and autonomy while working within a small, collegial legal team.
Qualifications :
- Five years of experience negotiating and administering contracts, with a solid understanding of contracting terms and principles and risk management.
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize, multi-task, and meet deadlines. Able to work independently with multiple deadlines.
- Attention to detail.