Contracts Specialist

Overview

This Contracts Specialist role involves drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing the full lifecycle of contracts to ensure legal compliance, favorable terms, and alignment with organizational policies and strategic objectives. The employer operates across Canada and the United States, so comfort working in both geographies is required.

Responsibilities

• Draft (as required), review, and revise contracts, amendments, and procurement agreements.
• Ensure compliance with the organization’s Services Provider Policy and Legal Playbook.
• Manage governing Terms & Conditions for all RFPs and RFQs.
• Negotiate contract terms with vendors, clients, affiliates, corporate independent contractors, and partners.
• Review and ensure ongoing compliance of independent contractor terms, agreements, and associated SOWs across all jurisdictions in North America.
• Support ensuring employment agreements are legally compliant across relevant jurisdictions in North America.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and organizational policies.
• Maintain contract repositories and track key dates and renewals.
• Analyze contract performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate with Legal, Procurement, HR, Sales, IT, M&A, Finance, and other departments.
• Resolve disputes, manage modifications, and oversee contract execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, law, or related field, or the equivalent.
• Knowledge of legal terminology and regulatory requirements across Canada and the US.
• Prior experience integrating acquisitions, including:
  • obtaining customer consents and assignments,
  • moving acquired contracts onto organizational paper,
  • bringing contracts into the repository,
  • consolidating vendors,
  • tracking contract-linked earnout milestones.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Contract drafting and redlining skills.
• Negotiation and pricing fundamental skills.
• Risk assessment and compliance knowledge.
• Procurement and sourcing familiarity.
• Stakeholder management and communication.
• Attention to detail and document management.
• Proficiency with Salesforce or comparable contract management systems.
• This role may require access to export-controlled information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in AI and leveraging it to strengthen tools and systems with respect to contracts.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual base salary range: $90,000 to $120,000.
  • The final offer within this range is based on variations in knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions, with consideration to internal equity.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • medical, dental, and vision plans,
  • matching GRSP contributions,
  • annual profit-sharing bonus,
  • other supplementary benefits.

Location

• Headquartered in Ottawa, with additional design centers in Kitchener-Waterloo and San Jose.