Contract Manager

Overview

The organization is seeking a Contract Manager to support the Legal Department by overseeing the creation, negotiation, execution, and administration of contractual agreements. This role helps ensure contracts comply with legal requirements, align with business objectives, and mitigate organizational risk. Ideal candidates are detail-oriented, highly organized, and effective at cross-functional collaboration across complex legal and business considerations.

Responsibilities

Contract Negotiation & Management

• Manage, review, draft, and negotiate client agreements, nondisclosure agreements, business associate agreements, AI addendums, and related commercial documents.
• Lead stakeholders through the negotiation process to ensure contracts are clear, balanced, customer-aware, and aligned with organizational products, client service, and mission.
• Analyze and interpret contract terms and conditions, providing practical guidance to business partners on obligations, exposures, operational impacts, and risk mitigation.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure contract terms comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and internal policy requirements.
• Identify potential risks within contractual language and propose solutions to reduce exposure.
• Support Legal and Procurement teams in developing and implementing contract-related policies, standards, playbooks, and procedures.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Security, IT, Product, Procurement, Sales, Client Service, Operations, and other teams to gather requirements, align expectations, and ensure contracts support scalable products, service delivery, operational needs, and strategic business goals.
• Serve as a subject matter resource for contract-related questions, contracting processes, and product-aware commercial best practices—especially for client agreements, NDAs, BAAs, and AI-related contracting terms.

Contract Administration & Documentation

• Maintain and enhance the contract database and tracking systems, ensuring accuracy, version control, and completeness of all contract-related documentation.
• Monitor contract lifecycles, key dates, renewal deadlines, and obligations to ensure timely action and compliance.
• Track and report on contract performance, surfacing issues, trends, and opportunities for process improvement.

Reporting & Process Improvement

• Produce regular reports on contract status, performance, trends, and risks for leadership and relevant stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to streamline contract workflows, improve documentation quality, incorporate AI solutions, and strengthen contract lifecycle management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Law, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in contract management, contract negotiation, or a related legal/commercial role.

Skills

• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to manage and resolve complex contract negotiations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex contractual concepts clearly to legal, product, commercial, and operational audiences.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in-house.
• Experience with health care, health care adjacent, and employee benefits laws.
• Familiarity with contract management software or enterprise contract databases.
• Understanding of regulatory, privacy, data-use, and AI-related considerations relevant to client agreements, BAAs, and commercial contracting.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $110K–$145K annually.
• Generous health benefits.
• Company-sponsored wellness benefits.
• Complimentary Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Paid time off.
• 6 paid holidays & 2 paid floating holidays.
• Work from home and hybrid schedules available.