Associate General Counsel
Newark, De, Us
Member of Legal Transactions Group responsible for providing legal support in connection with Sallie Mae’s transactions and relationships with vendors and other third parties and amongst the Sallie Mae entities, including the negotiation of security, privacy, and data protection-related provisions and addenda. In this role, in addition to other responsibilities, I:- Led negotiation of the terms of complex commercial agreements documenting vendor and other third party transactions and relationships, while advising and coordinating with the business owner, procurement, information security, privacy, tax and other applicable risk partners involved in the deal.- Managed work of outside counsel, including counsel hired to perform overflow contract negotiation work and to assist in connection with security, privacy, and data protection-related provisions and addenda.- Owned the maintenance and updating of (a) standard form templates for agreements with third party service providers and other vendors, including (amongst others) the form Software-as-a-Service agreement, Master Service Agreement (MSA), NDAs and parent guarantee forms, (b) the playbook for the MSA and (c) the intercompany agreements between the Sallie Mae entities. - Participated in addressing policy, procedural and other operational issues related to third party contract review, contract language and administration (including participation in periodic Risk Partner Summits with other risk partners to discuss such issues) - Created and co-created tools for use in the contracting process (such as contract guidelines, contract intake forms and/or checklists)- Led and participated in training initiatives and other ongoing education regarding third party contracts and related policies and procedures- Owned the company's Contract Signature and Contract Legal Review policies- Was responsible for legal review of IT-related policies