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Role Description

As a Contracts & Negotiation Professional at Kyndryl, you will be required to provide sound and well-reasoned legal, commercial, and contract guidance to the businesses and other internal functions based upon established policies, guidelines, and professional judgement. You will also participate in or lead significant and complex negotiations of IT services contracts, preparing all required contractual documentation and ensuring compliance with established contracting policies, practices, and delegations.

You will have the ability to develop strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders as well as with Kyndryl's customers and their third-party advisors and counsel, and the ability to communicate effectively and negotiate with all levels (professional to executive) of internal and external clients. You will also work on international contracts, which will require interfacing with teams in other countries and ensuring the agreement accurately reflects Kyndryl's capabilities in all countries within scope. The ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and creative thinking individual with well-developed oral and written communication skills.

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex services agreements
• Assisting with the development of responses to requests for proposals (RFPs)
• Identifying and mitigating legal, technical, and business issues and risks
• Assisting with the resolution of contract-related disputes
• Coordinating with other company functions (e.g., Legal, Risk, Tax, and Accounting) to ensure compliance with company policies
• Ability to analyze and interpret basic financial data and business concepts and assess the impact of alternative courses of action

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years experience working on complex Contracts & Negotiations, including drafting and interpreting complex contracts and providing advice on legal, contractual, technical, and/or business requirements
• Ability to multitask and balance a complex and demanding workload
• Ability to establish and nurture client (internal and external) relationships and to work constructively with other members of a team
• Willingness to travel 10% annually
• English: Fluent
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and creative thinking individual with well-developed oral and written communication skills

Requirements

• Applicant can live anywhere within a 50-mile radius of a major airport

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or Juris Doctorate degree
• At least 5 years experience in Information Technology transactional support and/or legal and business interpretation of general services scope and contracts
• Second language fluency in Spanish
• 2+ years experience in outsourcing agreements

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off
• Eligible for Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl's applicable plans

Company Description

Kyndryl designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers, and our communities.