What does a successful Senior Contract Specialist do at Fiserv?

A Senior Contract Specialist ensures that colleagues and clients receive responsive, diligent and skilled contracting support for a wide variety of transactions and deals. You will impact both client satisfaction and help Fiserv reach our financial targets by preparing, drafting and negotiating transaction documents and managing deals. You will gain product knowledge, company knowledge, and problem solving skills. This role will give you the experience and exposure to grow personally and professionally through an opportunity to work with a dedicated team of legal professionals.

What you will do:

• Preparing initial drafts of agreements based upon contracting standards and unique deal terms or requests

• Reviewing client or vendor redlines/ comments/ issues and suggesting alternative language/ responses

• Drafting language, often based upon contracting standards and clause banks

• Managing form contract templates

• Identifying and escalating potential risks

• Working with client partners/sales executives to verify terms

• Responding to contractual questions from clients (internal and external)

• Providing contract interpretation to internal clients as needed

• Acting as the point person for the collection of information, feedback and approvals from deal stakeholders (e.g. finance, operations, security, product, etc.) during the contracting process

• Ensure final copies of agreements/documents are saved and stored properly

• Participating in substantive negotiations and business calls

• Providing input into contracting strategy

• Applying Fiserv standard legal and business positions in drafting and negotiation

• Assisting with research projects

What you will need to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or five (5) years of relevant experience

• Three (3) or more years of contract/legal experience

• Negotiation experience

• Ability to work on increasingly complex contracts

• Strong interpersonal skills, team player

• Strong organizational skills, detail oriented

• Strong computer proficiency with a variety of software applications, including MS-Office Suite and PDF software and excellent typing skills

• Effective time management

What would be great to have:

• Experience drafting various technology contracts, including software licenses and SaaS agreements

Travel required:

Minimal. 1-2 trips per year for Legal Department meetings.

Fiserv is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Vet.