Principal IT Contracts Management
About the role
The Principal, IT Contracts Manager serves as a trusted authority on contractual matters for CCL IT, overseeing the full contract lifecycle from intake through transition to operations with a focus on our most complex and impactful agreements. This role plays a critical part in protecting the organization’s legal, financial, and operational interests by ensuring contracts are well-structured, compliant, commercially sound, and aligned with business strategy.
Responsibilities
Contract Drafting & Review: Collaborate with IT leaders and vendors to ensure contract language accurately reflects business intent, scope, pricing, timelines, performance obligations, and risk allocation. Review, edit, and finalize a broad range of IT contracts, including but not limited to: Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), Service Level Agreements (SLA), Contract Amendments, and other vendor and supplier agreements.
Negotiation & Risk Management: Collaborate with Sourcing and Legal to support contract negotiations with vendors and IT leaders, balancing pricing and legal risk with business objectives. Partner with IT leaders, Legal, InfoSec, Privacy, and Risk to ensure contracts include: Security control obligations, audit rights, vulnerability remediation timeframes, and breach notification. Data handling and regulatory clauses relevant to travel (PII, and PCI where applicable). Business continuity/DR obligations (RTO/RPO), resiliency testing, and subcontractor controls.
Compliance & Governance: Ensure contracts comply with internal policies, and industry standards. Support audits, regulatory reviews, and internal controls related to contractual obligations. Ensure proper approvals, signatures, and recordkeeping are completed in accordance with company governance standards.
Contract Lifecycle Management: Manage contract lifecycle, including intake, drafting, review, execution, storage, renewal, amendment, and termination. Maintain an organized, searchable contract repository using contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools or internal systems. Ensure post-execution obligations are clearly communicated to relevant internal teams.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Ensure governance in place for managed service contracts and provide oversight. Partner with Sourcing on pricing, payment terms, and cost controls. Ensure vendor and supplier agreements follow IT, Financial, Sourcing and Legal processes. Collaborate with IT Leaders to ensure vendor and supplier agreements meet operational needs. Serve as a primary point of contact for contract-related inquiries across the organization. Advise internal stakeholders on termination rights, and dispute resolution provisions where needed. Ensure proper approvals, signatures, and recordkeeping are completed in accordance with company governance standards.
Process Improvement & Knowledge Management: Develop and maintain standardized contract templates, clause libraries, and negotiation playbooks. Recommend and implement improvements to contract processes to increase efficiency, consistency, and turnaround time. Provide training and guidance to internal teams on contract basics, best practices, and risk awareness. Support implementation or optimization of contract management systems.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Law, Information Technology, or a related field.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in contract management, preferably in a technology or managed services environment.
Experience with contract lifecycle management software and tools.
Strong understanding of IT contracts, including MSAs, SOWs, SLAs, and other vendor agreements.
Excellent negotiation and risk management skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with various departments, including IT, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Vendors.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
Knowledge of industry standards and regulations related to IT contracts.
Skills
Contract drafting and review
Negotiation and risk management
Compliance and governance
Contract lifecycle management
Stakeholder collaboration
Process improvement and knowledge management
Benefits
Everforth Apex offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans, an ESPP (employee stock purchase program), a 401K program with a company match, a Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan, a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program, and other discounts. Additionally, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars, and certification discounts and other perks to associations such as CompTIA and IIBA. The company also has a dedicated customer service team for consultants and a certified Career Coach to assist with benefits and other resources.
Pay
$60-70/hr
Schedule
Onsite as needed