Commercial Contracts Administrator

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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content. From posting: Company Overview, Position Overview, Key Responsibilities, Requirements, Performance Metrics, Compensation (but it's vague: "Competitive base salary commensurate with experience." That's not specific, it's placeholder; we should NOT create Pay section because it's not specific. Also no Benefits, Schedule specifics. So we may have sections: About the role (maybe combine Company Overview + Position Overview?), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements (Requirements + maybe Performance Metrics? but Performance Metrics is more like evaluation; could be part of Requirements or separate? The instruction: use headings for those specific headings only if posting has real, specific content for it. Performance Metrics is not one of the allowed headings; we cannot create a custom heading. So we must either omit or incorporate into existing sections like Requirements or Responsibilities. Probably incorporate into Requirements or maybe a separate "Qualifications"? But Qualifications is allowed heading. Could treat Requirements as qualifications. Performance metrics could be part of Requirements or maybe we could add a "Qualifications" section for skills etc. But we have to avoid filler. We have content: Company Overview (description of company). Position Overview (description of role). That could go under "About the role". We'll combine them. Key Responsibilities: list of duties. We'll put under

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    • items under Requirements. We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we remove the EEOC statement at the end. Also remove "Competitive base salary commensurate with experience." because it's placeholder; we should not create Pay section. Also remove "This position requires a valid driver's license and clean driving record to fulfill the essential functions of the role." That's not placeholder; it's a specific requirement, keep. Also remove "Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time." Keep as requirement. Now craft HTML. Structure:

      About the role

      Company overview paragraph + Position overview paragraph.

      We need to preserve all substantive info: Company Overview: "Northstar Recycling is a private equity-backed leader in waste diversion and recycling solutions, serving some of the world's most iconic brands in the Food & Beverage sector. As a remote-first, high-performance organization, we combine environmental stewardship with business value to help our clients achieve their sustainability goals while driving operational excellence. With an aggressive growth strategy — including targeted expansion in CPG and Industrials — Northstar is building the operational infrastructure to execute at scale, and the Contracting Administrator sits at the center of that effort." Position Overview: "The Commercial Contracts Administrator serves as the operational hub of Northstar's contracting process, ensuring every client and vendor agreement is accurate, complete, and commercially aligned. This role owns the full contract lifecycle from deal initiation through final execution, keeping commercial teams and legal moving in sync. The Commercial Contracts Administrator owns the process and coordination of the full contract lifecycle, while legal interpretation, commercial decision-making, pricing, and approval authority remain with the designated Northstar leaders. This is not a legal role and it is not a sales role. The Commercial Contracts Administrator executes commercial strategy. Pricing, deal structure, and what Northstar is willing to agree to commercially stay with NSR leadership. This role supports the business by improving contracting discipline, reducing administrative burden, shortening contracting cycle time, and ensuring visibility into active agreements and obligations." We'll combine into one or two paragraphs. Then Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities. The responsibilities are grouped under headings: Contract Lifecycle Management, Template & Terms Integrity, Revision Control & Pre-Signature Review, Vendor & Client Terms Alignment, Contract Operationalization & Obligation Management, Reporting & Documentation. We need to preserve all details. We'll create
      • for each responsibility item, possibly with sub-bullets? The instruction: use
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            • containing the sentences. We must not lose any detail: Let's extract each duty: Contract Lifecycle Management: - Facilitate the full contract process. - Serve as the process owner for Northstar’s contracting workflow, including intake requirements, approval paths, document controls, stage definitions, escalation protocols, and expected turnaround times. - Establish and enforce a consistent process across all participating departments. - Coordinate with Sales, Client Services, and leadership to move contracts through review, redline, approval, and signature tracking status and ensure nothing sits in limbo. - Manage the intake and tracking of all incoming MSAs, commercial amendments, Statement of Work, NDAs, and vendor agreements. - Route contracts for internal review and approval, maintaining clear ownership and timelines at each stage. - Coordinate signature collection and execute final agreement handoff to Client Services upon execution. Template & Terms Integrity: - Track and enforce consistency of commercial terms across all active agreements. - Maintain and protect NSR's preferred contract terms; flag and escalate any proposed deviations. - Maintain a centralized, up-to-date contract repository with clear status, expiration dates, and ownership visible across the team. - Join external calls to capture notes, ensure documents revisions and redlines are properly captured, and ensure next steps are documented. Revision Control & Pre-Signature Review: - Serve as the final administrative and commercial-completeness checkpoint before signature, confirming required approvals have been obtained and agreed business terms are accurately reflected. - Identify and reconcile factual or administrative discrepancies and escalate substantive legal or commercial discrepancies to the appropriate decision-maker. Vendor & Client Terms Alignment: - Cross-reference approved client commitments against applicable vendor agreements, identify potential gaps or misalignments, and escalate them to the appropriate commercial/legal stakeholder before execution. - Maintain ongoing visibility into the alignment between client and vendor agreement obligations across NSR's active book. Contract Operationalization & Obligation Management: - Translate executed agreements into a clear summary of commercial commitments, operational requirements, reporting obligations, key dates, renewal and termination provisions, and accountable internal owners. - Conduct a structured handoff to the teams responsible for implementing and managing the agreement, confirming that material obligations and exceptions are understood and assigned. - Maintain a contract calendar and proactively notify accountable leaders of upcoming renewals, expirations, notice deadlines, pricing adjustments, and other time-sensitive obligations. - Track material contractual obligations through completion or documented acceptance by the responsible functional owner. Reporting & Documentation: - Document and report on contracting trends — common redlines, turnaround times, bottlenecks, and recurring issues. - Provide regular updates to leadership on contract pipeline status, outstanding items, and agreement visibility. - Build and maintain systems that ensure no agreement is unknown, untracked, or missing from the repository. - Relay final terms, requirements, KPIs etc. to appropriate functional areas for compliance. - Ability to escalate, flag, and resolve meaningful terms, discrepancies, and requirements to the appropriate leaders. Now Requirements: list: - Bachelor’s degree in business, Operations, Paralegal Studies, or a related field. - 3–5+ years of progressive experience in commercial contract administration, legal operations, contract lifecycle management or a related function, including demonstrated experience building or materially improving a contracting workflow. - Able to effectively identify opportunities to use workflow automation and AI to accelerate document review, compare revisions, extract obligations, improve reporting, and reduce administrative work while maintaining appropriate human review and confidentiality controls. - Able to effectively develop playbooks, checklists, templates, and training materials that enable commercial and operational teams to participate effectively in the contracting process. - Exceptional attention to detail — you notice when something doesn't match, and you fix it before it becomes a problem. - Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple contracts at various stages simultaneously. - Project Management Skills - Comfort working across departments (Sales, leadership, Client Services) and keeping everyone aligned. - Proficiency with document management systems, CRM tools, or contract lifecycle management platforms. - Clear, professional written communication — you can flag a concern or explain a contract status plainly. - A process-first mindset: you build systems, you don't let things fall through the cracks. - Experience in a B2B services environment is a plus; recycling/waste industry experience is not required. - Experience building or improving contract templates or administrative workflows. - This position requires a valid driver's license and clean driving record to fulfill the essential functions of the role. - Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. Also maybe include performance metrics as part of Requirements? Could add as separate bullet points under Requirements: "Performance may be measured against the following key indicators:" then list each metric. We'll incorporate as bullet points under Requirements. Performance metrics list: - Contract Accuracy & Compliance: Accuracy of executed agreements against approved terms; utilization of approved templates or documented exceptions. - Contract Cycle Time & Aging: Contract turnaround time, including time by stage and aging of agreements awaiting action by owner. - Intake Quality: Percentage of contract requests submitted with complete and accurate intake information. - Repository Integrity & Agreement Visibility: Completeness of the contract repository, including accurate metadata and visibility into all active and executed agreements. - Contract Handoff & Accountability: Percentage of executed agreements with completed handoffs and material obligations assigned to accountable owners. - Terms & Obligation Alignment: Alignment and reconciliation of client commitments with corresponding vendor and operational obligations. - Renewal & Deadline Management: Timely identification, tracking, and communication of renewal dates, notice periods, and other material contractual deadlines. - Trend & Risk Identification: Proactive identification and documentation of recurring redlines, contracting bottlenecks, process gaps, and emerging trends. - Stakeholder Experience: Internal stakeholder satisfaction with the efficiency, clarity, responsiveness, and effectiveness of the contracting process. We'll include these as bullet points under Requirements. Now ensure we don't include any filler like "commensurate with experience" etc. We removed