Trustwave helps businesses fight cybercrime, protect data and reduce security risk. With cloud and managed security services, integrated technologies and a team of security experts, ethical hackers and researchers, Trustwave enables businesses to transform the way they manage their information security and compliance programs. Trustwave delivers automated, efficient and cost-effective threat, vulnerability and compliance management. Trustwave is headquartered in Chicago, with customers in 96 countries. For more information about Trustwave, visit https://www.trustwave.com.
Trustwave is seeking a motivated and talented individual to join its Chicago-based Legal team as a Legal Analyst. The Legal Analyst will work on a wide range of commercial contracts as part of Trustwave’s in-house legal team. This position will be responsible for contract management, drafting, negotiating and management of the contract lifecycle and will interact frequently with sales, sales operations, finance, and employees in multiple Trustwave business units and functions. In particular, this position will focus on sales agreements for Trustwave’s compliance and risk services and managed security offerings (including master services agreements, statements of work, non-disclosure agreements, etc.).
The Legal Analyst is responsible for preparing and negotiating contracts in partnership with business teams around the world to accomplish clear understanding of commitments, balancing of risk between the company and the customer/vendor, timely billing and payment, positive customer relations and accurate communication with the internal organization. The Legal Analyst may also assist the Legal team with other duties as assigned.
The ideal candidate will be pro-active, highly analytical, and a driven self-starter with superior problem-solving and communications skills. Significant contract negotiation experience for a sales-focused company is preferred.
Required skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 2 to 3 years of experience in contract drafting and negotiation
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects
- Superior communication skills in written and oral presentation
- Ability to partner collaboratively with internal business teams
- Technology, information security and/or cybersecurity experience is a plus
Education:
We prefer college-educated applicants, but at minimum, high school diploma or equivalent is required for employment.
Trustwave is an Equal Opportunity Employee of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
To All Agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Trustwave outside of the Talent Acquisition team. Trustwave’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via the Trustwave Agency Portal. Agencies must have a valid fee agreement in place and they must have been assigned the specific requisition to which they submit resumes, by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of Trustwave and in the event a candidate is submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.