Paralegal V – Commercial Contracts Manager

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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Applied Materials is seeking an experienced Paralegal V Commercial Contracts to support highvolume and highcomplexity commercial contracting across the company. This is a senior expertlevel individual contributor role requiring independent judgment deep commercial contracts experience and the ability to drive scalable legal processes in a global matrixed environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently draft and negotiate template-based commercial agreements including customer contracts for sale of Applied equipment and services supplier contracts NDAs SOWs and amendments.
• Identify contractual risks deviations from standard terms and escalation issues; clearly summarize findings for attorney review.
• Own endtoend contract lifecycle activities including intake execution workflows and postexecution management.
• Serve as a Legal point of contact for designated business teams.
• Lead or support commercial contracting programs and process improvements including template updates and workflow optimization.
• Develop and maintain playbooks job aids and training materials related to commercial contracts.
• Interface directly with internal stakeholders and coordinate with outside counsel and vendors as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Paralegal certificate or equivalent legal training strongly preferred.
• 812 years of progressively responsible paralegal experience supporting commercial contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex nonroutine agreements.
• Strong drafting organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience working in a global fastpaced corporate environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting technology manufacturing or semiconductor businesses.
• Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and esignature tools.
• Experience working with sales supply chain and/or procurement organizations.
• Exposure to regulated commercial environments or exportcontrolled businesses.

Applied Competencies

• Exercises sound judgment with confidential and attorneyclient privileged information.
• Communicates effectively with legal and nonlegal stakeholders.
• Operates independently with minimal supervision.
• Proactively identifies risks and process improvement opportunities.

Additional Information

This role is an individual contributor position and does not have formal people management responsibility.

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

For all sales roles the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

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