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Contracts Manager

Scale · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
HybridManagement$250/hrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. First, the job title is not needed as heading. We need to extract sections: - About the role: The first paragraph "The Role We’re looking for a commercial Contracts Manager..." This is description. Could be "About the role". We'll put that in

. - Responsibilities: The bullet list after "Key responsibilities will include:" includes many items separated by semicolons. We'll turn each into

  • . - Requirements / Qualifications: The "The Ideal Candidate" paragraph includes bullet-like items separated by semicolons. Could be Requirements or Qualifications. We'll treat as Requirements. - Skills: maybe we can extract skill items: "Strong deal-structuring instincts", "Quick study with numbers", etc. But we already have them in Requirements. Might combine. - Benefits: The line "We offer a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive benefits program including medical benefits, paid vacation and holidays, and 401K matching." That's benefits. - Pay: Not specified (no salary). So we should NOT include Pay section. - Schedule: The posting mentions hybrid schedule: "You will report to our Senior Contracts Manager and work a hybrid schedule from our HQ in Ridgewood, NJ, our NYC office near Union Square, or our Santa Monica Office." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that sentence. - Also there is "About Scale Microgrids" and "About EQT" and EEO etc. Those are boilerplate; we should remove navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The About Scale Microgrids and About EQT might be considered company description, not required but could be kept? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The About sections are not boilerplate; they are company description. Might be okay to keep as part of "About the role" or separate? But we only have headings for specific categories; we could include a section "About the Company" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings are only those listed. So we should not add extra headings. We could incorporate company description into "About the role" paragraph or maybe omit. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could keep About the role includes description of role and maybe company overview. But we already have role description. Could add a brief company overview in same paragraph. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from the posting, except boilerplate. The About Scale Microgrids and About EQT paragraphs contain substantive info about the company. Should we keep them? They are not navigation/legal/EEO etc. They are company description. The instruction didn't forbid keeping them; just said remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we can keep them. But we need to place them somewhere. Since we don't have a heading for "About the Company", we could put them under "About the role" as additional paragraphs, or maybe under a heading "About Scale Microgrids" but that's not allowed heading. The instruction says use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It gives examples but not exclusive? It says "use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. So we should not add other headings. We could incorporate the company description into the About the role paragraph. Thus final HTML:

    About the role

    The Role We’re looking for a commercial Contracts Manager to manage deals through their full life cycle, from customer-facing negotiation through contract execution and ongoing compliance. You will structure and negotiate commercial agreements based on our established corporate standards, project manage the contracting process alongside our business development and project management teams, and serve as a relationship-savvy point of contact for customers and partners. You will also provide hands-on due diligence support for our acquisition activities. You will report to our Senior Contracts Manager and work a hybrid schedule from our HQ in Ridgewood, NJ, our NYC office near Union Square, or our Santa Monica Office. Scale is redefining resilience, with advanced microgrids that go beyond traditional backup power solutions to give businesses the power to adapt and thrive amid all of today’s growing energy challenges. As a vertically-integrated provider of turnkey advanced microgrid systems, Scale combines project design, engineering, and execution expertise with microgrid-as-a-service financing to offer our customers systems that are optimized to deliver maximum value from day one while ensuring ultra-reliable operations and fast time-to-power. Scale is backed by EQT, a firm with :$250B in assets, bringing a depth of experience, resources, and capital that will enable Scale to continue pursuing our vision of powering the world with distributed energy. The investment enables Scale to own and operate billions of dollars in distributed generation assets. EQT is a leading purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 246 billion in total assets under management, divided into two business segments: Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership.

    But we need to ensure we didn't include duplicated lines. Also we need to include Responsibilities list. Responsibilities: after "Key responsibilities will include:" we have a list separated by semicolons. Let's extract each: - Serve as a customer-facing lead on commercial negotiations based on our playbooks, structuring deal terms that balance customer needs with our commercial and risk objectives; - Manage the end-to-end contracting process from initial deal structuring through negotiation, redlines, signature, and post-execution administration while keeping deals on schedule; - Manage standard form agreements and continually propose and incorporate feedback to improve standard templates and risk allocations; - Support the commercialization and standardization of new products; - Prepare standard form and customized agreements for customers, partners, and vendors as needed to support day-to-day operations; - Analyze third-party paper against our standard commercial positions to identify and resolve material commercial inconsistencies; - Exercise sound judgment about when to resolve an issue directly and when to escalate to legal counsel or management, incorporating their input as appropriate; - Build working familiarity with project cost models and deal economics to negotiate scope, milestones, and risk allocation knowledgeably; - Manage our contracts database, including monitoring existing agreements for conformance with budget, deadlines, performance obligations, customer service, and renewal/expiration dates; - Support our project management and business development teams in clearing conditions to our obligations and complying with the terms of our agreements; - Manage the signature collection process and timely satisfaction of any approvals or conditions precedent; - Ensure company-wide compliance with Scale’s internal approval processes; - Manage the legal and regulatory diligence process for purchasing, selling, and/or financing of distributed energy projects and portfolios We'll put each as
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      . Requirements: The Ideal Candidate paragraph includes many items separated by semicolons. Let's extract: - Bachelor’s degree required; - 3+ years of relevant experience; - Legal training or a paralegal/JD background is a plus, but we’re looking for someone whose primary orientation is commercial rather than legal; - Demonstrated success leading customer-facing negotiations and managing projects successfully and on time; - Strong deal-structuring instincts — comfortable shaping and proposing commercial terms, not just reviewing them; - Quick study with numbers; able to get up to speed on cost models and deal economics without a finance background; - Experience with power purchase agreements, energy services agreements, leases, or similar commercial agreements in distributed energy, real estate, or a related industry preferred; - Strong contract drafting acumen; - Detail- and process-oriented, with a history of building or improving contract and deal-management workflows, balancing speed and agility with internal controls and risk management; - Preference for individuals with experience performing or managing buy-side diligence activities; - Experience preparing power purchase agreements, energy services agreements, M&A transaction agreements, or similar agreements within the distributed energy industry preferred; - Self-driven, entrepreneurial in nature; willing to step outside of role where needed to support the company’s needs; thrives in a fast-paced environment; We could also include the virtues list: "Some of the core virtues embraced by Scales’ employees include: Do the Right Thing Act Like an Owner Hustle Demand Results Go Together Evolve or Disappear". That's also substantive; could be part of Requirements or maybe a separate section like "Culture". But not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into Requirements paragraph. We'll put Requirements as
      • ... etc. Benefits: "We offer a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive benefits program including medical benefits, paid vacation and holidays, and 401K matching." We'll put as

        under Benefits heading. Schedule: Already mentioned in About the role paragraph; but we could also create a Schedule section with that sentence. However we already included hybrid schedule info in About the role. To avoid duplication, maybe we should move schedule info to its own section and remove from About the role. But we need to preserve all info; we can keep it in Schedule section and not duplicate. Let's extract schedule sentence: "You will report to our Senior Contracts Manager and work a hybrid schedule from our HQ in Ridgewood, NJ, our NYC office near Union Square, or our Santa Monica Office." That's schedule. Thus About the role paragraph should not include that sentence. We'll remove it from About the role and put in Schedule. Now About the role paragraph will be: The Role We’re looking for a commercial Contracts Manager to manage deals through their full life cycle, from customer-facing negotiation through contract execution and ongoing compliance. You will structure and negotiate commercial agreements based on our established corporate standards, project manage the contracting process alongside our business development and project management teams, and serve as a relationship-savvy point of contact for customers and partners. You will also provide hands-on due diligence support for our acquisition activities. Scale is redefining resilience, with advanced microgrids that go beyond traditional backup power solutions to give businesses the power to adapt and thrive amid all of today’s growing energy challenges. As a vertically-integrated provider of turnkey advanced microgrid systems, Scale combines project design, engineering, and execution expertise with microgrid-as-a-service financing to offer our customers systems that are optimized to deliver maximum value from day one while ensuring ultra-reliable operations and fast time-to-power. Scale is backed by EQT, a firm with :$250B in assets, bringing a depth of experience, resources, and capital that will enable Scale to continue pursuing our vision of powering the world with distributed energy. The investment enables Scale to own and operate billions of dollars in distributed generation assets. EQT is a leading purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 246 billion in total assets under management, divided into two business segments: Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership. We need to ensure we didn't lose any substantive info: we removed the hybrid schedule sentence (moved to Schedule). Also we removed the "Some of the core virtues..." list; we need to keep that. Where to put? Could be part of Requirements or maybe a separate section like "Culture". Not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into Requirements as a bullet list. Let's add as a bullet under Requirements: "Core virtues embraced by Scale’s employees: Do the Right Thing, Act Like an Owner, Hustle, Demand Results, Go Together, Evolve or Disappear." Now Benefits: we have that sentence. Now we need to ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed those paragraphs. Now produce

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