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Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Overview
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Responsibilities
Your Future Org
Atlassian's Finance team is recognized as a competitive differentiator driving results and decisions as a tightly integrated trusted advisor. We drive impact through proactive, strategic business partnership with leaders across the company and are critical drivers of the next horizon for the company.
Your Future Team
Atlassian is looking for an experienced Sr. Contracts Manager to join our hard-working Procurement Team. We are looking for a contracts manager who has strong attention for detail and experience in technology, such as hardware, software/SaaS, and hosted infrastructure and technology consulting services. You'll work closely with key partners across Atlassian. You will build effective cross-functional working relationships and actively participate in worldwide contracts management. You will have exposure and interaction with departments across the company and world as well as our external suppliers, so strong social and communication skills are a requirement. You will be a trusted partner and advisor to Sourcing colleagues and internal customers providing practical and timely contractual guidance, identification of contractual risks and informed consent, and excellence in drafting contract documents.
You'll also have input in development of the contracts management function within Procurement at Atlassian, helping to build out playbooks, contract templates and process improvement documentation.
Responsibilities
* Structure, draft and negotiate a broad range of inbound supplier contracts, with strong emphasis on SaaS, IT and professional services.
o Analyze use cases with business owners to choose appropriate contract forms.
o Work closely with the Legal team to triage contract issues.
o Contribute to various contract process improvement, documentation and reporting projects.
* Work alongside IT, Hosted Infrastructure, Development groups, Marketing, Workplace Experience, and other internal business customers.
* Provide pragmatic, business-minded guidance to our business owners on contract-related issues.
* Work alongside Procurement Sourcing personnel, facilitate supplier negotiations, including negotiation strategy development, pricing, SLAs, and other contract terms and conditions.
* Work alongside the commercial contract group within Atlassian Legal to learn core Atlassian legal strategies, develop contract templates and general commercial negotiation guidelines.
* Provide contract-related issue resolution, both internally and externally
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
* At least 5+ years of experience drafting and negotiating supplier contracts, with an emphasis on SaaS and professional services.
* BA or BS (J.D. and/or CIPP-E or CIPP-US certification is a plus, but not required).
* Awareness of data privacy issues.
* Ability to take ownership, roll up your sleeves, and get things done.
* Ability to build relationships with business stakeholders to strengthen the connection between our team and the business.
* Ability to navigate a decentralized and complex organization spread across the globe.
* Ability to communicate with the business and suppliers to help them understand and follow the rules and parameters of the contracting process.
* Passion and diligence to embrace our business model and Atlassian culture.
* Ability to work independently while supporting all levels of the company.
* Excellent judgment and strong negotiation and customer service skills.
* Ability to understand legal, risk and business impacts to contract language.
* Ability to focus amidst evolving and maturing environments
* Ability to Play as a TEAM.
Preferred Qualifications
* 5+ years as a contracts manager, or other comparable experience within a corporate legal or Procurement department in a technology organization.
* Confluence, JIRA and Coupa experience
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Management and Manufacturing
* Industries
Software Development
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