Contracts Counsel

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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Legal Operations Contract Specialist will manage contract review and negotiations, create contract templates, validate contract data, oversee third-party risk management, and collaborate with procurement and business leads to ensure compliance with internal requirements.
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Choose a workplace that empowers your impact. 

Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.  

We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.

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Our team is looking for a candidate with a strong contracts background to join our OMERS Legal Operations team. Vice President, Enterprise Legal managing the Legal Operations function at OMERS strongly believes in developing talent and is looking for a candidate that has a strong drive to learn and desire to help their colleagues succeed with their initiatives. If you are looking for a dynamic role, this is the one for you!

We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. Our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come to the office a minimum of 4 days per week.

Requirements:

  • Admitted to the Ontario Bar

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience drafting and negotiating contracts, with a focus on software, technology and privacy

  • In-house or law firm experience is required

Responsibilities:

  • Draft and negotiate various forms of contracts, including but not limited to SaaS, PaaS, Professional Services and data protection agreements 

  • Advise internal stakeholders on best practices

  • Support VP, Enterprise Legal & Enterprise Counsel with commercial contract matters

  • Support VP, Enterprise Legal with ad hoc matters  

  • Support the maintenance of the contracts lifecycle management system to ensure the accuracy and availability of contracts and contracts related data

  • Support vendor governance activities  

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

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The Company
Sydney, NSW
1,560 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Founded in 1962, OMERS is one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, with $133.6 CAD billion in net assets as of June 30, 2024.

With employees in our offices in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe, OMERS invests and administers pensions for over half a million active, deferred and retired employees of 1,000 municipalities, school boards, libraries, police and fire departments, and other local agencies in communities across Ontario

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