The Mimecast Business Legal team is looking for a Commercial Contracts Manager to join our dynamic and fast-paced, global legal team. This is a new and exciting role as part of a small sub-team of Commercial Contract Managers reporting to the Business Legal Team. This is a full-time role based in Johannesburg requiring cross-jurisdictional shift work.
As a key member of the legal team supporting all Mimecast regions, you’ll need strong analytical skills, the ability to assess and mitigate contractual risk, excellent communication skills and the ability to work to a high standard within tight deadlines. It’s an energetic, solution driven environment and you’ll be required to negotiate contracts with customers from many different industry sectors and work alongside key stake holders and business partners across the company as part of the wider deal support desk.
What You'll Do
Providing support and advice to internal business stakeholders regarding contractual negotiations and general contractual queries
Ensure compliance with all Company contracting policies, processes, and procedures
Reviewing & negotiate standard contractual redlines
Vendor contracts
Customer contracts
BAAs (HIPAA)
DPAs (POPIA, GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA)
Partner Agreements
Reviewing, drafting and negotiating Non-Disclosure Agreements
Preparation of final versions of contracts and legal approvals
Providing support to the deal support desk for standard contractual changes
Triage Business Legal inbox, legal support requests and redline queries
Monitor Deal Support internal Slack channels and respond to legal process/contractual questions as needed
Assisting with the submission of responses to Requests for Information/Requests for Proposals, relating to both public and to private sector entities (legal terms and submission letters)
End of quarter/year deal room support
Liaise with commercial counsel and ensure escalation of more complex matters via appropriate process
Formatting, proofing and finalising contractual documentation and co-ordinating approvals and signatures
Assisting with legal due diligence as needed
Faciliating compliance with legal operational processes (for example exceptions process and protocols)
Providing ad hoc advice on legal process and operational inquiries
Document management – efficient organization of files, templates and folders
Reviewing and updating contractual templates and maintaining version control
What You'll Need
sound contract negotiation and drafting skills
ability to communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external stakeholders
sound analytical skills and attention to detail
ability to work with initiative and confidence as part of a team
ability to demonstrate sound commercial acumen and recognize and balance risk appropriately
be able to prioritise effectively and adapt to frequently changing and competing priorities
a proactive mindset and flexible approach
organized, efficient and able to meet strict timelines
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) is required
Minimum 1 year post admission or in house legal experience.
The base salary range for this position is 400k−480k ZAR plus benefits. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits, in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications, experience, and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.
Belonging at Mimecast
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Law (LLB)
- Minimum 1 year post-admission or in-house legal experience
- Sound contract negotiation and drafting skills
- Experience reviewing and negotiating BAAs and DPAs (POPIA, GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA)
- Experience drafting and negotiating NDAs, vendor, customer and partner agreements
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Commercial acumen and ability to assess and balance contractual risk
- Ability to prioritise, adapt to changing priorities, and meet strict deadlines
- Proactive, flexible, organized, and efficient with document management and version control
- Ability to work with initiative and confidence as part of a team
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
Mimecast Insights
What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world. Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
