Here's how you can discuss contract drafting and review experience effectively in an interview.

When discussing contract drafting and review experience in an interview, focus on specific examples where attention to detail and legal comprehension were pivotal. Highlight your role in ensuring accuracy, mitigating risks, and facilitating smooth negotiations. Emphasize collaborative efforts and your ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly.

Expertise in contract drafting is a continuous learning process. Through years of experience in contract drafting when you gain considerable experience with all sorts of contracts, you can discuss those outcomes and processes during the interview to establish your competency. You can detail out the process of contract drafting from the scratch by gathering the requirements from all the team to reflect on the contract. Once the requirements information and data is gather, you can start drafting the contract to incorporate those requirements in the contract then you can add some boilerplate clauses and then you can start multi tier review process to shape the contract. Thus, explaining all such steps can establish your rapport in interview.

Time is everything. If you take too much time to respond to contracts the other side will be less willing to make changes and you could also lose out on the very thing you are negotiating. Contract negotiation should be a collaborative process and respecting each sides time will go a long way in allowing them to be flexible.

Don't just tell them why they can't have what they want in a contract. It's always about being flexible and creative. Finding other solutions instead of what is just in the language in the original contract is just as important. Negotiate with the person, not the situation.

Long-term supplier relationships are crucial for effective contract management. They foster trust, collaboration, and mutual understanding. Such partnerships lead to better terms, consistent quality, and smoother communication, facilitating problem-solving and goal achievement. Investing in these relationships strengthens contract management, enhances procurement outcomes, and contributes to sustainable business success.

Efficient Contracts ensure Risk mitigation and its governance is imperative to a positive supply chain output. A draft that reflects completeness of scope and aligns all obligations/performance metrics/recourse elements to the success of the engagement is the most significant outcome of the procurement/sourcing activity.

Contract negotiation doesn't have to be a zero sum game. Each side will value each point differently. Instead of negotiating one point at a time, negotiate the entire contract. For example, in a creator contract, maybe the price isn't as important for the creator as the ability to have creative control and less revisions to fit their content. Use that to each sides advantage. if they won't come up in price say that they want full creative control. Get Creative.

Work smarter not harder. When drafting commercial agreements often you will have made similar agreement in the past or your potential client / negotiation partner has done a similar deal. Try starting with a template you know was approved or similar to start to customize based on the specific details of the deal. This is just one approach you can share in an interview to highlight your thought process and approach that can work universally for most agreements.