Senior Paralegal, Corporate Contracts

The Senior Paralegal Corporate Contracts provides support to the Corporate Legal Department with a primary focus on commercial contract review drafting and negotiation support. This role manages contract intake workflows drafts and redlines agreements and partners crossfunctionally to drive timely riskbalanced outcomes. It requires excellent organization independent judgment and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced environment. The position involves sensitive and confidential information and demands a high level of discretion.

What you will be doing:

• Contract review: draft analyze and redline agreements (e.g. MSAs SOWs customer/sales vendor/supplier NDAs SaaS/software licenses marketing distribution logistics). Escalate nonstandard terms and propose practical alternatives.
• Assist in negotiating terms with suppliers and customers.
•  Intake & workflow management: Own contract intake triage tracking and routing; maintain approval records and turnaround metrics.
• Template and playbook enablement: Maintain and improve standard templates fallback clauses and guidance notes; help deliver selfservice resources and guardrails for business partners.
•  Issue spotting and risk alignment: Identify legal and business risks (e.g. indemnities liability caps termination IP data privacy/security insurance) and recommend mitigations consistent with policy.
• Outside counsel coordination: Liaise with external counsel when needed and track assignments deliverables and budgets.
• Draft internal memos summaries reports and other correspondence.
• Prepare spreadsheets timelines presentations contract management tracking.
• Crossfunctional partnership: Collaborate with Sourcing/Procurement Sales IT/Security Finance Tax and Compliance to resolve deal issues and keep transactions on schedule.

Qualifications :

What you bring to the role:

• 5 years of handson contract negotiation and review experience in a corporate legal department and/or law firm.
• Demonstrated proficiency drafting and redlining standard form agreements and addenda using Microsoft Word/Office.
• Proven ability to manage highvolume contract workflows meet deadlines and balance multiple matters with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated exceptional attention to detail organization and written communication skills; practical businesssavvy judgment.
• Experienced engaging directly with internal business stakeholders and external vendors to resolve deal terms.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; excellent attention to detail and accuracy strong proofreading skills.

Preferred experiences:

• Experience with commercial contracts across procurement/sourcing and sales/customer agreements strongly preferred. 
• Real estate contract experience (leases and related documents).
• Experience collaborating with IT/Security on data protection and vendor risk requirements.
• Education: Graduation from an ABAapproved paralegal certificate program strongly preferred; bachelors degree a plus.

Core Competencies: 

• Customercentric communication; ability to translate legal risk into business terms.
• Influencing skills to drive alignment on standard positions while maintaining strong relationships.
• Continuous improvement mindsetrefining templates processes and playbooks.
• High integrity and discretion handling confidential information.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agile team environment.
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be flexible and comfortable with change.

Additional Information :

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $70000 USD - $110000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range or be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to education training experience professional achievement business need and addition to base salary employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates unique needs. This includes robust health plans a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution product discounts flexible time off benefits adoption benefits and more. We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

Fortune Brands is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within the high-growth categories of water outdoors and security. The Company makes innovative products for residential and commercial environments with a growing focus on digital solutions and products that add luxury contribute to safety and enhance sustainability. To learn more visit our website at .

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fortune Brands is an equal opportunity employer. Fortune Brands evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability/handicap status marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time