Consideration will be given only to candidates who meet the Requirements
Work Hours: standard India office hours
Company Overview: Trexquant is a growing systematic fund manager with a core team of highly accomplished technologists. We apply a wide variety of statistical and machine learning techniques to build investment portfolios and trade our client assets in global equity and futures markets. We are hiring a Global Contract Manager based in India to manage procurement contracts across our global offices, including the U.S., India, and China.
Position Overview: The position will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and managing a variety of procurement contracts with mostly U.S. based vendors, including technology solution providers, hardware suppliers, and professional service providers such as accounting, recruiting, and marketing agencies. The ideal candidate must have a comprehensive understanding of U.S.commercial contracts and corporate procurement processes, and will have the ability to work independently and in an international team.
- Attorney with at least 3 years of U.S. commercial contract formation and negotiation experience
- Immersion in the U.S. corporate and professional culture
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills with English as the working language
- Previous experience working with a U.S. based organization or studying at a U.S. university
- Previous experience working in technology or systematic trading firms
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience working with local or international regulatory agencies
- Familiarity with data licensing agreements
- LLM or JD degrees
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate vendor contracts, including but not limited to technology (software and hardware), professional services (accounting, recruiting, marketing), data license agreements, and other business services.
- Manage the contract lifecycle, from initial request through execution, including contract renewals, amendments, and terminations.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand their needs and provide support in commercial negotiation, while ensuring compliance with company policies and applicable laws and regulations.
- Assist with vendor relationship management and serve as the point of contact for vendor-related contract inquiries.
- Support the preparation of reporting, document management, and other record keeping efforts.
- Collaborate with internal departments (Data Research, Finance, IT, and others) to ensure alignment on contractual terms, obligations, and deliverables.
- Stay current on legal and industry trends related to procurement, technology contracts, and vendor management.
- Maintain and organize a central repository of contracts and ensure all contracts are properly executed, filed, and tracked.
- Competitive salary plus bonus bonus based on individual and company performance
- Work in a collaborative and friendly environment, participate in decision-making process for research direction, and have opportunity to lead on new ideas
- Weekly company meals
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What We Do
Being a quantitative finance firm that uses Machine Learning (ML) to create multi-asset portfolios and seek profit from the market, Trexquant has continuously improved its investment and research platform since starting operations, leveraging new and emerging technologies. Trexquant uses rigorous quantitative methods to create multi-asset portfolios in global markets. To do this, Trexquant develops trading signals using its vast and continuously growing collection of data variables used as inputs for more complex trading models called Strategies. The result is an ever-growing and adapting engine built from thousands of intricate models and tens of thousands of signals, tailor-made with the goal to outperform the market during any condition. Capital is managed across 5,500+ cash equity positions across the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada.
