*REMOTE* Career Paralegal

Responsibilities:

• Provide general administrative support for EMEA Legal Team, as well as the broader Legal group (Data Privacy, Compliance) as needed.
• As the first paralegal on the EMEA Legal Team, make recommendations based on prior paralegal experience on how the legal team can function more efficiently from a support and process standpoint.
• Perform a variety of basic and increasingly complex work under the supervision of lawyers.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and organizational skills to manage ongoing projects and assist lawyers in meeting project deadlines.
• Maintain project timelines and agendas, organizing materials and otherwise assisting with a variety of new and ongoing projects.
• Serve as the "gatekeeper" for ongoing projects, monitoring progress to ensure that projects remain on track and maintaining organized project files.
• Coordinate signatures for contracts, including e-signatures and DocuSign, and legalization of legal documents.
• Demonstrate good judgment, common sense, and ingenuity to apply knowledge to assess alternatives and to identify and recommend solutions.
• Prepare commercial contracts, NDAs, and other legal documents, and maintain internal policies in collaboration with other departments (Compliance, Human Resources).
• Implement and manage the legal department's document management repositories, internal department intranet page, contract management system, distributor onboarding tool and other information repositories.
• Manage vendor and law firm onboarding and invoicing, including legal department invoicing and spend tracking platform.
• Implement and manage digital tools and software used by legal team for legal operations and optimize other internal legal processes with the goal of positively impacting the legal team as the organisation grows and scales