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SalaryAirport Dimensions is part of Collinson, acknowledged as a global leader in customer benefits and loyalty.
Collinson has been enhancing the airport experience for over 30 years, with access to lounges, retail, dining, and spa experiences, offers and more. Creators of the world’s largest lounge membership program, Priority Pass provides access to an extensive global lounge and partner network.
Using their expertise and products to craft customer experiences. Collinson’s range of services helps global brands acquire, engage, and retain choice-rich customers.
Airport Dimensions want travellers to value their time at the airport. They continuously seek ways to open new dimensions in customer engagement - using a mix of enriching physical experiences and innovative digital services. From comfortable lounges to restful sleep pods, from convenient food ordering to contactless collection of duty free, Airport Dimensions help improve the travel experience while critically helping airports maximize non-aeronautical revenue opportunities, retain airlines, and become more competitive.
Airport Dimensions has a rapid growing network of locations at the world’s leading airports across the United States, United Kingdom, and Middle East. Under our brands The Club, Club Aspire, Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club, No 1 Lounges and sleep ’n fly, Airport Dimensions provides award-winning hospitality services tailored to the specific needs of passengers and has developed value-added experiences for over 50 airport and airline partners.
What does a Legal & Governance Specialist do?
The Legal and Governance Specialist will have a broad range of responsibilities associated with Airport Dimensions contract governance and management, business and tax requirement research, maintaining and managing insurance requirements, adherence to DBE, ACDBE and SMWBE small business participation contractual goals and assisting with RFP compliance and special projects. The position works across multiple business functions to assist with governance and contract research required to support Airport Dimensions objectives and action plans. Governance and Contract management will include, but not be limited to ensuring contract compliance in the area of administration and reporting.
What You'll Do?
- Proven experience with legal documents, contract review and compliance process
- Ability to multi-task and handle shifting priorities in an extremely fast-paced and time-sensitive environment.
- Must have knowledge and experience drafting amendments and other legal documents.
- Paralegal degree or certification
- Ability to draft third party Master Services Agreements (MSA) Statement of Work (SOW), and other vendor agreements.
- Ability to provide guidance and recommendations on a variety of legal and binding documents.
- Thorough understand of legal terminology, state and national government compliance requirements.
- Understanding and ability to establish appropriate corporate entity registrations and certifications.
- Superior organizational and project management skills and attention to detail
- Self-starter who takes ownership and enjoys working across departments.
- Possess a high degree of integrity and the ability to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate basic legal concepts effectively across the organization to achieve project objectives.
- Understanding of data privacy and security concerns/regulations in the USA
- Ability to develop close working relationships and work collaboratively with internal customers.
- Able to effectively multi-task, re-prioritize and work independently to meet deadlines and drive agreements to conclusion in compliance with corporate standards, while remaining calm under pressure
- Ability to strike a prudent, business-friendly, and collaborative balance between effective risk identification, counselling, and maintenance of corporate standards with business objectives.
- Negotiation of non-key contracts (non-supervised) Responsibilities
- This position will support the Americas team in administering key contracting processes, such as due diligence and set up, implementing Non-Disclosure Agreements and contract database administration, as well as commercial contract review and ensuring compliance of both procurement and wider business processes and procedures.
- Assist in drafting and managing accurate and organized corporate documentation and records of regional companies, including filing required entity reports, resolutions, and other governance documents.
- Perform the principal elements of the Corporate Secretary function, to include (i) organizing all Board, Committee and related corporate records; (ii) playing a key role in the review and coordination of the Board and Committee meeting materials, including development of agendas and arranging meeting logistics; (iii) preparing minutes for Board and Committee meetings; (iv) ensuring proper maintenance and control of all corporate records; (v) maintaining all corporate informational listings and organizational charts; and (vi) undertaking a review of the corporate records of the Board and Committees
- Interpret and include federal regulations/clauses in all contracts and subcontracts as necessary before contract execution.
- Manage, oversee, and monitor compliance across multiple business functions to ensure adherence to DBE, ACDBE and SMWBE small business participation goals per contractual obligations.
- Obtain DBA & Foreign Entity business licenses as directed.
- Work with Group Legal to provide guidance and direction resolving contractual or non-compliance issues across multiple business functions.
- Assist in litigation support work such as discovery requests, subpoena request and document productions.
- Work with others within the organization to develop, implement, and maintain systems to optimize the legal and compliance department functions and processes.
- Provide commercial teams with initial contract reviews and completion of agreements based on Collinson standard template NDAs, SOWs, LOIs, and contract amendments.
- Identify, research, and escalate legal issues to Group Legal for resolution as appropriate.
- Support Group Legal in development of contract templates and playbooks including training to the sales and delivery teams on proper use.
- Maintaining records and documentation
- Research to assess regulatory and reputational risks to the organization.
- Prepare, draft, edit and maintain compliance-related documents, including investigative files and reports, agendas, corporate compliance policies.
- Respond to questions relating to internal audits; Perform follow-up audits as required to assess improvement on previous non-compliant findings.
What You'll Need?
- Should have 3- years’ experience in contract management paralegal, or a Compliance Specialist
- Keen attention to detail
- Exceptional organization and prioritization skills
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate and correspond appropriately across multiple business functions and management levels.
- Ability to focus on key priorities despite conflicting requests or assignments.
- Flexibility
- A problem solver that can identify new and more efficient ways to manage contracts and administration.
- Self-motivated, energetic, and inquisitive
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs including Excel, PowerPoint and Word programs.
You can look forward to a competitive salary and benefit plan including but not limited to:
- 100% employer paid medical, dental, life & LTD insurance for employees
- 100% match to your 401k deferrals (limited) with 100% vesting at 6 months
- Supplemental Insurance including STD, additional Life
- Priority Pass Membership
- Global Mentoring Program
- Wellness Programs
- Lifestyle Benefits
Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: color, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.
We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.
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