Senior Counsel, Technology Contracts

About the Team

The RELX Legal Department advises the RELX corporate functions and its business divisions (Legal, Risk, Scientific Technical & Medical, and Exhibitions) on various legal and compliance matters. RELX is a world-leading, global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

About the Role

This Senior Counsel position will provide legal support to internal clients primarily related to technology enterprise wide supplier contracts, contractual disputes, and regulatory and compliance matters. This position will report directly to the Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property, Technology & Procurement currently based in the United States of America.

Responsibilities

The attorney selected for this position will provide legal services with the Global Procurement group and other corporate function teams. This position requires experience in drafting and negotiating complex enterprise and cross-divisional procurement contracts for the technology team reviewing and negotiating with large technology suppliers for enterprise arrangements, with a focus on cloud, SAAS, software licensing, professional, consulting and implementation services, and various other corporate services. This attorney will work cooperatively with international business clients and other legal professionals and must understand fundamental data privacy and supplier compliance processes, laws, and objectives. The role's responsibilities include :

• Counseling technology procurement managers regarding technology related products and services on risks and legal issues facing a multi-national, global technology and information analytics company.
• Providing legal advice and responding to requests on a timely basis from clients for input on supplier contracts, contract law, disputes, regulatory and compliance matters.
• Strong understanding of AI-related issues and their legal impact on supply chains.
• Internal clients will include the global technology procurement team, and other corporate function teams.
• Drafting, negotiating agreements and recommending revisions to relevant contract language.
• Suggesting substantive improvements to contract templates, along with efficiency improvements to contract workflow and processes.
• Providing practical guidance and advice related to contractors and other third-party service providers including large enterprise technology providers, including SaaS and cloud providers, and consulting firms, software resellers, telecom providers and hardware manufacturers.
• Supervising supplier-related disputes, terminations, bankruptcies, and other matters, including evaluating correspondence to and from suppliers.
• Addressing routine issues and coordinating more complicated matters with specialized counsel in areas of compliance, artificial intelligence, including generative-AI and machine learning, intellectual property, licensing, and privacy.
• Coordinating, when necessary, with in-house counsel colleagues in foreign jurisdictions, in specialist counsel roles, and for single-division procurement contracts and matters.
• Backing up the direct and indirect -focused procurement counsel colleague, as needed.
• Assisting in corporate or division-wide initiatives and special projects.

Candidate Profile

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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About the Business

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 36,000 people over 40% of whom are in North America. The headquarters is in London. The market capitalization is about £60bn ($80bn), making it one of the 10 largest listed companies in the UK. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, Euronext and NYSE.

The company has four market segments. It develops information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in the Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions sectors.

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