Contract Manager, AWS Legal

ID: 7063

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Location: GBR, London - London - United Kingdom

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Job Description

Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented Contracts Manager to be based in London, UK to support Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com. AWS is at the forefront of the cloud computing and service industry, providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, database services, artificial intelligence, machine learning, browsers, and more.

This Contracts Manager will support the teams responsible for the full lifecycle of AWS data center infrastructure. This includes contracts spanning design and construction, operation, maintenance, and physical security of AWS data centers and related infrastructure.

Key job 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.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company, or experience prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at any given time while maintaining commitment to deadlines
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service
- Experience with legal contracts and contract negotiation
- 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.
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Can use AI for legal research, contract analysis, or document review experience
- 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.

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Company Information

Company Name: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Company Website: https://aws.amazon.com

Company Address: 1 Principal Place, Worship Street, London EC2A 2FA, United Kingdom

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is the United Kingdom branch of AWS EMEA SARL, the European legal entity associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is the cloud-computing business unit of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies and governments globally. The EMEA SARL entity and its UK branch operate to support AWS’s commercial, contractual and customer-facing activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), enabling local sales, account management, customer support, and regulatory and contractual compliance for customers operating in the United Kingdom and nearby jurisdictions. As part of the broader AWS organisation, the UK Branch participates in the delivery, resale and local support of AWS’s full portfolio of cloud infrastructure and platform services. Core business activities associated with AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) include commercial contracting with UK customers and partners, account and partner management, professional services and technical support coordination, regulatory liaison, and facilitation of local billing and invoicing under the European corporate structure. The branch functions as the UK operational presence of AWS EMEA SARL to ensure local engagement and to meet regional legal, tax and data processing requirements while providing access to the global AWS service footprint. The principal offering delivered through the AWS organisation is a broad set of cloud services spanning compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, security and developer tools. Key, widely referenced AWS products and services that the UK Branch supports commercially include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for scalable virtual servers; Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object storage; Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon DynamoDB for managed database services; AWS Lambda for serverless computing; Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for network isolation; Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for container orchestration; Amazon SageMaker for machine learning model building and deployment; Amazon CloudFront for content delivery; and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access control. In addition to these platform building blocks, AWS provides management, monitoring and orchestration tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudWatch and AWS Config, plus industry-specific and vertical solutions delivered either directly or via the AWS Marketplace ecosystem of third-party software vendors and system integrators. AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) supports a wide range of customer segments including startups, small and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises, public sector organisations and research institutions in the UK. The branch helps customers adopt cloud-native architectures, migrate existing workloads to AWS, implement hybrid cloud and edge strategies, and leverage managed services to reduce operational overhead. Common use cases enabled by AWS offerings include application hosting and modernization, data analytics and business intelligence, scalable e-commerce platforms, disaster recovery and backup, high-performance computing, Internet of Things (IoT) deployments and machine learning-driven applications. The branch also engages with the AWS partner network (APN), an ecosystem of technology partners, consulting partners, managed service providers and independent software vendors that resell, build on or integrate with AWS services. Through partner-led and AWS-led initiatives the UK Branch supports training, certification, technical enablement and joint go-to-market activities that help customers and partners design, deploy and operate solutions on AWS infrastructure. From a compliance and operational perspective, AWS emphasises security, data protection and regional compliance frameworks. AWS publishes documentation, compliance reports and service-level agreements that describe technical controls, data flows and certifications for its services. The UK Branch serves as a local point of contact for customers in the UK seeking contractual commitments, data processing addenda, and information relevant to UK regulatory or procurement requirements. In summary, AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) functions as the UK operational and commercial presence for AWS in the EMEA corporate structure. Its role is to enable and support UK customers and partners in procuring, deploying and operating the extensive portfolio of AWS cloud services—ranging from core compute and storage to advanced analytics, machine learning and managed application services—while coordinating local commercial, legal and regulatory responsibilities within the broader global AWS organisation. The branch’s activities contribute to AWS’s overarching purpose of delivering scalable, on-demand cloud infrastructure and platform services to organisations across industries in the UK and the wider EMEA region.

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