Junior Commercial Contracts Lawyer

Job Description

Junior Commercial Contracts Lawyer | Axiom

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Axiom, a global leader in alternative legal services that combines world-class legal talent with advanced AI tools. Axiom empowers legal professionals to engage in meaningful work while serving over 1,500 legal departments worldwide. This role is crucial for supporting high-volume client projects, particularly with a significant focus on supply chain and manufacturing contracts, providing essential legal guidance and helping clients streamline their contracting initiatives. Axiom values agility, collaboration, and excellence, fostering a dynamic environment for career growth.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote
• Pay: $104500–$325000 yearly
• Mission: Support high-volume client projects with a focus on supply chain and manufacturing contracts, providing essential legal guidance and optimizing contracting operations.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Draft and Negotiate: Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of diverse commercial agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, distribution, supply, procurement, and services agreements.
• Support Supply Chain: Provide dedicated legal support for supply chain and manufacturing-focused contracts, encompassing vendor, supplier, and operations-related agreements.
• Provide Guidance: Offer practical, business-oriented legal guidance on contract terms, risk allocation, and negotiation strategy to clients.
• Manage Initiatives: Assist clients with large commercial contracting initiatives, such as contract standardization and remediation projects.
• Optimize CLM: Support contract lifecycle management (CLM) efforts, including system implementation, optimization, and ongoing contract operations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Doctorate Degree. Career level: Junior to Mid Career. Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent, with active bar membership in good standing, suitable for a junior to mid-level commercial generalist.
• Experience: 2–5 years of post-qualification experience, ideally gained in-house or within a commercial-focused practice, with demonstrated experience in drafting and negotiating core commercial contracts.
• Skills: Proven ability to manage high-volume workloads efficiently while maintaining strong attention to detail, exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills, comfortable working in remote or hybrid professional environments.
• Bonus: Experience with CLM system implementation or optimization, exposure to international contracts or Japanese-facing clients, experience working with cross-functional and multinational teams, and supply chain or manufacturing experience (SME status not required).