Primary Purpose:
The Analyst role is a member of the Contract Optimization function, which currently sits in Tapestry's Legal Department and reports to the VP & Deputy General Counsel based in New York.
This role will work closely and take direction from the Lead Analyst, Contract Optimization, also based in New York.
This position is based in the company's Singapore office and will work closely with the legal team in that office.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Serving as a super-user of our CLM tool (DocuSign), including managing intake, workflows, and reporting, and building out efficiencies and analytics.
- Creating and analyzing reporting relating to contracts.
- Drafting and negotiating lower-risk, high-frequency contracts to drive business value while identifying and mitigating risk.
- Maintain and update agreement details within the CLM system, performing data entry and clean-up to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Respond to internal business partners' inquiries regarding contract status, terms, processes, providing clear and timely information with a customer service mindset.
- Coordinating and managing contracting playbooks, templates and other knowledge management tools and tracking review of Tapestry's terms and conditions.
- Interpreting and assessing issues, risk, agreements and questions from internal teams to quickly provide a path that ensures a business or legal decision and helps to efficiently move contracting work forward.
- Collaborating closely with the global internal stakeholders in Legal and Procurement to ensure on-going building of efficient contracting processes are developed and followed.
- Serving as a central point of contact for contract workflows and ensuring contracts are executed efficiently and in accordance with Tapestry standards, business needs and timelines.
- Championing CLM and providing training and ongoing support for Legal, Procurement and business teams.
- Developing and managing strategies, schedules and task lists to ensure assigned projects are accomplished on time.
- Ensuring new contracts are developed in compliance with regulations and current playbooks.
- Assisting with the administration of internal systems that support the drafting, negotiation, and execution of contracts and other documents.
- Establishing supportive relationships with internal business partners and cross-functional support teams and providing information with a customer-service mindset.
- Assisting with the resolution of contract-related issues, and coordinating with Tapestry's legal and procurement partners, as needed, to support conclusions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of one year working within a business-critical system, with responsibilities including organizing data, maintaining system accuracy, and resolving technical issues to support reliable and efficient operations.
- A minimum of one year working with contracts, including experience drafting contracts.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a database, run reports and analyze data.
- Demonstrated project and time management, prioritization and organization skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction, exercise good judgment and take ownership of issues and matters to their successful conclusion.
- Strong attention to detail in performing data entry tasks.
- A strong sense of collaboration and teamwork, with a focus on customer service.
- Ability to meet with the global project team based in New York.
Preferred education and experience:
- Experience with DocuSign, Salesforce, IronClad or other CLM tool.
- Experience providing training.
- Experience working closely with cross-functional partners and as part of a global team.
- Project management or database administration.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.