Contracts & Risk Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Key advisor for CEO and the organization on a variety of topics including strategy, contract, general business and negotiation risk mitigation, multi-national customers, etc. Includes risk register management and issue escalation.
• Collaborate with project managers, finance, legal counsel, and executive leadership to ensure contract terms align with project scope, timelines, and risk profiles.
• Maintain compliance monitoring.
• Review, draft, redline, and negotiate a wide range of contracts including vendor agreements, customer contracts, NDAs, lease agreements, and service-level agreements.
• Develop and maintain standard templates of various contract documents.
• Support proposal development and bid responses, particularly for government RFPs, ensuring compliance and other applicable regulations.
• Support internal and client-facing presentations by preparing contractual summaries, risk assessments, service bulletins, manual updates, language clarity, and compliance overviews.
• Lead company-wide document retention and records-management discipline for contracts, legal matters, insurance, corporate records, customer and vendor agreements, major project documentation, claims, compliance records, and related business records.
• Cooky boundaries for technical drawings, engineering data, product documentation, and controlled design records.
• Evaluate, implement, and maintain a practical contract lifecycle management process, which may include a dedicated CLM platform, enhancements to existing systems, AI-enabled tools, SharePoint/Teams workflows, DocuSign, ERP integration, or other scalable solutions.
• Establish intake procedures, approval workflows, standard templates, version control, repository structure, key-date tracking, and reporting for contract status and risk visibility.
• Serve as the management point for corporate compliance calendars, recurring filings, licenses, registrations, renewals, reporti g deadlines, and similar administrative obligations.
• Cooky company insurance matters in partnership with insurance brokers, leadership, and outside counsel.
• Review contract insurance requirements, certificates, endorsements, indemnity language, liability limits, umbrella/excess coverage requirements, waiver of subrogation, additional insured language, and related risk-transfer provisions.
• Identify gaps between contractual obligations and available coverage and escalate material issues before commitments are made.
• Cooky with external counsel as needed for complex or high-risk agreements and legal needs including incident and accident investigations.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Business Administration, Legal Studies, Risk Management, Engineering Management, or a related field required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in contracts management, contract administration, legal operations, risk management, commercial administration, project administration, or a related function.