About the role
AI summarisedAmazon's Legal Department is seeking a Contracts Manager to support AWS in Singapore, focusing on the full lifecycle of data center infrastructure contracts. The role involves drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various agreements, providing legal advice, and driving process improvements to enhance contract management efficiency.
BusinessFull-timeLegal
Key Responsibilities
- Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a high volume of Amazon contracts across a diverse and expanding scope of data center activities, including general contractor and engineering/design vendor main services agreements, operations, maintenance and security services contracts, work orders, change orders, and ancillary agreements.
- Providing day-to-day legal and commercial advice to business clients on projects, negotiations, vendor management, and internal and external communications.
- Partnering proactively with procurement, finance, engineering, construction, Operations, and security stakeholders to anticipate needs, assess and manage risk, and deliver timely, actionable guidance and support.
- Driving legal and business-facing process improvements that enable scalable, efficient contract management at high volumes, and developing and implementing simplification measures to eliminate repetitive or low risk work.
- Driving reductions in contract cycle times through workflow automation, standardization, and cross-functional process alignment, and championing the adoption of AI tools and legal technology to elevate the quality, speed, and scalability of the contracting function.
Requirements
- Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities.
- Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment.
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in contract drafting, review and negotiation in a corporate legal, law firm, or in-house environment.
- Experience managing a high volume of contracts simultaneously across diverse categories and counterparties.
- A passion for building trust with internal and external stakeholders by being proactive and innovative in solving problems that affect stakeholders and customers.
- A proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize competing workloads and maintain quality under pressure.
- A desire to grow professionally as the role's responsibility grows rapidly with the business.
- Experience with construction, design, facilities management, operations, maintenance, or physical security contracts.
- Prior in-house experience supporting global teams at a technology company or large-scale infrastructure organization.
- Experience managing outside counsel engagements, including budget oversight and performance evaluation.
- Proficiency in contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms or legal operations technology.
- Experience using and evaluating AI-powered legal tools for contract review, analysis, or management.