Senior Manager Contracts

About the role

The Senior Manager, Contracts ensures oversight and assumes ultimate responsibility for multiple simultaneous projects by reviewing, negotiating, and drafting moderately complex to complex agreements. This role communicates with internal business partners and appropriate external entities on risk assessment, information security, physical security, privacy, insurance, business continuity, and business risk to determine requirements. They provide counsel on approach and applicable enterprise policies and standards to build consensus. They identify business unit appetite for risk and provide advice to business partners regarding deal terms, risk assessments, customer concerns, strategy, and company policy. They support a risk-aware culture and ensure effective risk management practices.

Responsibilities

• Develops and revises cross-functional internal procedures related to contract review, negotiation, and execution transactions.
• Structures, drafts, reviews, and negotiates moderately complex to complex vendor and related agreements involving a wide variety of subject matters, including master service agreements, master license agreements, facilities agreements, collection contracts, and marketing agreements.
• Communicates with and advises business partners and senior management to determine agreement requirements.
• Advises on approach and applicable enterprise policies and standards to build consensus on approach and execution.
• Identifies, assesses, and communicates information to business partners on emerging topics and best practices.
• Ensures that programs, policies, procedures, and controls are implemented in a manner that is compliant with Company policy.
• Supports internal audits and reviews.
• Ensures contracts are executed within committed turnaround times so that the engagement between internal business partners and their external vendors commences without delay.
• Collaborates closely with business leaders from across functional teams to advise and influence their contractual development, decisions, and negotiations.
• Ensures the organization's internal contract documents are accurate and well maintained.
• Ensures and maintains positive working relationships with both internal clients and external suppliers to ensure organizational needs are met.
• Identifies opportunities to improve business processes and devises plans to implement these changes.
• Oversee internal meetings to learn the business goals, technical goals, and requirements of the contract.
• Develops guidelines and timelines for organizational RFx processes.
• Reviews and negotiates NDAs.
• Conducts risk assessments and due diligence, as needed.
• Provides guidance to enhance ultimate contractual outcomes.
• Reviews, drafts, and leads the negotiation of a wide variety of contracts and other transactional documents.
• Identifies and advises management and other stakeholders of contractual risks and mitigating alternatives.
• Ensures compliance of all transactional documents with all applicable legal requirements and contractual obligations to third parties.
• Supports internal audits and reviews.
• Initiate and lead regularly in meetings with internal management and personnel and with suppliers and vendors.
• Promote a team approach and a critical thinking environment to facilitate problem solving, empowering ownership and autonomy.
• Inspire trust and encourage professional growth by coaching and mentoring employees.
• Lead the hiring and onboarding of new contracts staff and manage staff performance.
• Implement a process for measuring contract turn-around time.
• Oversee, develop, and document process for the sales contract coordinator function, including identification of bid opportunities and management of the prospect submissions and negotiations.

Qualifications

• Personal: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Excellent interpersonal skills. Strong sense of responsibility, conscientiousness, and high level of integrity. Ability to maintain confidentiality. Ability to digest complex medical, legislative, and legal information and make decisions in a timely manner. Professional Exceptional time management skills, strong attention to detail, and strong CAP leadership values.
• Legal: J.D. or a bachelor’s degree in paralegal studies or a post-baccalaureate paralegal certificate. Other substantial forms of legal education may be considered in tandem with significant transactional legal experience.
• Experience: Significant experience in transactional law in a law firm or in a corporate or government legal department. Other legal experience, such as litigation, and relevant business experience may be considered in tandem with transactional legal experience.