Katie Labossiere Email and Phone Number

Serving as a Contracts Manager supporting the Advisory Group at KPMG.

Prepare, draft, negotiate, review, and support various agreements with commercial, R&D and medical affairs teams as well as the accounting and legal departments to establish business relationships with vendors, customers and/or partners. Agreement reviews include Master Agreements, Statements of Work, Amendments, Non-Disclosure/Confidentiality Agreement as well as other agreement requests submitted through the contract system. Coordinate requests from internal clients for various contracts and contract amendments with outside vendors and collaborators. Help administer, implement and manage contracts management system, and assist in managing the inflow and outflow of contracts including handling signature requests, tracking and reporting contract status for internal sponsors, and ensuring compliance with contract procedures, company policy, financial controls, government specifications and other requirements. Continue to make improvements to current Contract Lifecycle Management system, including but not limited to creating new workflows, record types and other efficiencies for the system. Partner with the in-house legal team to help create new and update existing templates, and develop and implement new policies and procedures to improve efficiency. Serve as an internal resource for questions relating to contract related matters and other matters as warranted. Establish and foster strong collaborative relationships with internal and external partners and service providers. Provide education and training to internal clients. Assist with special projects, as needed, including but not limited to internal audit requests and documentation gathering.

Handle the assignment of daily contract review requests for our legal/contracts team utilizing the JIRA Servicedesk. Handle contract creation, providing document comparisons, routing for signature and continued contract management. Function as a system administrator for Conga Contracts and continued process improvement of configuring the system. Manage an internal SharePoint site for contracts team in addition to managing the SharePoint team for Business Development and Proposals teams to utilize. Provide training to internal legal team members on systems and provide training to new Business Development and Proposals team members to streamline interacting with the WCG Legal team. Provide first line customer service to Business Development team to find creative solutions to handle client request. Negotiate and draft Non-Disclosure Agreements, Business Associate Agreements, Work Orders/Statements of Work, Change Orders and Amendments. Assist with projects for the department, including running reports, pulling documents to comply with audit requests and working across WCG teams to handle business requests and challenges. Assist with legacy agreement collection, uploading legacy documents and providing training to newly acquired companies.

Provide administrative and paralegal support for the Legal & Risk Management department. This includes working on strategic projects for the department, assisting with maintaining departmental databases and running reports. Assisted with implementing Contract Lifecycle Management system and continue to identify ways to make it better. Assist with finding, reviewing and migrating "legacy" contracts into CLM system.

Provided administrative and paralegal support to the Chair of the International Practice Group and her Boston team. Maintained the database of international attorney partners.

Work in the in-house legal department specifically in the employment law group (employment & immigration law).

Administrative Assistant in the corporate department. I supported 3 corporate paralegals, an employment attorney and a corporate attorney.