Paralegal - Legal Operations Specialist

Paralegal - Legal Operations Specialist

SOPHiA GENETICS

Bidart, France

Your role will be to support the Legal team with administrative and paralegal matters in a variety of areas including commercial contracting, contract management, keeping databases up-to-date, archiving, reporting, vendor management, budgeting, and administrative tasks. As a paralegal, you will be essential in working cross-functionally across the company to help make sure that the legal team and the business are executing together effectively and efficiently.

As a Paralegal/Legal Operations Specialist, you will work side-by-side with our Legal team to help create processes and practices to improve the day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness of the legal team, facilitate organization, and control costs. Your role involves:

• Assist with drafting, reviewing, and revising various types of legal documents, including contracts, filings and legal correspondence;
• Provide legal and project management support in commercial, corporate and financial transactions and projects, corporate structuring, and other projects with legal implications;
• Maintain and organize legal files and documents, including creating and maintaining electronic filing systems and databases;
• Contract Management: Draft standard contracts, align agreements with internal guidelines, policies and procedures; manage signing process; keep the company’s contract database up to date;
• Provide legal support related to public tenders;
• Prepare periodical reporting;
• Support enhancement and maintenance of Legal intranet sites and implementation of additional knowledge management resources;
• Help enforce processes and standard operating procedures;
• Assist the Legal team with processing of purchase requests, invoicing, budgeting and reporting matters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law or professional paralegal training;
• Minimum two years of experience as an in-house counsel, legal assistant, executive assistant for the legal department, paralegal, or legal operations position;
• Strong organizational and drafting skills and close attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects;
• Strong proficiency in business applications such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, document management systems, and legal enterprise software such; working knowledge of Salesforce is a plus;
• Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal and social skills to support a diverse and dynamic team;
• Fluency in French and English (written and spoken).

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