Contract Manager at Kelly Mitchell

KellyMitchell matches the best IT and business talent with premier organizations nationwide. Our clients, ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to rapidly growing high-tech companies, are exceptionally served by our 1500+ IT and business consultants. Our industry is growing rapidly, and now is a great time to launch your career with the KellyMitchell team.

Contract Manager

Job Description:

• As part of the Client's law team, this position reviews, drafts and negotiates moderately complex to highly complex commercial contracts for the company.  
• Responsible for multiple simultaneous projects, reviewing, negotiating, and drafting moderately complex to complex agreements.
• Communicates with business partners and other internal partners (such as Law, compliance, corporate risk, information security, physical security, privacy, insurance, business continuity and business risk) to determine requirements.
• Advises on approach and applicable enterprise policies and standards to build consensus.
• Provides advice to business partners regarding business issues, such as deal terms, risk assessments, customer concerns, strategy, and company policy.
• Supports a risk-aware culture and ensures effective risk management practices. 
• There is emphasis on risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements. 
• The role requires a solid understanding of how to balance [legal] risk with business objectives and successfully get transactions closed.

Duties

• 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 that is compliant with Company policy. Supports internal audits and reviews

Desired Skills/ Experience

• Exercises prudent discretion and decision-making capabilities to provide advice, direction and support to internal business clients, including risk, compliance, governance, government relations, and/or legal advice, as applicable to role, on new initiatives.
• 6 years of experience in the drafting and negotiation of commercial contract

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