Job Description:

Are you experienced in drafting and negotiating legal contracts? If so, we want to hear from you!

Our client, a global asset manager based in Edinburgh, is recruiting for a Client Contracting Associate to join the business on an initial 50-week temporary contract.

This is a full-time position and the role holder is expected to work in the office at least 4 days per week.

Skills/Experience:

• Proven track record of drafting and negotiate sophisticated legal contracts
• Ability to perform and deliver high quality legal contracts in a fast-paced environment
• Proven skills in successfully managing competing internal and external demands within time frames
• Legal qualification is preferred but not essential

Core Responsibilities:

• Drive the contracting process from initial drafting through negotiation and execution
• Facilitate and coordinate with stakeholders across functions involved in the contracting process
• Manage client expectations throughout the negotiation process
• Identify potential issues that are disseminated to potentially impacted internal stakeholders for review, discussion, negotiation and resolution
• Capture and record relevant non-standard contractual clauses on an ongoing basis and maintain the contractual documentation database
• Support the sales team with contractual documentation queries

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16060

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.