Lead Contract Specialist

Overview

The Lead Contract Specialist provides time-sensitive, solutions-oriented, and strategic contracting support for an operating room renovation business. This role manages business and legal risk, supports commercial opportunities, improves processes, and promotes contracting excellence. The position is remote, with a strong preference for candidates located near Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

• Draft, edit, review, and negotiate operating room renovation contracts.
• Provide timely support to internal and external customers in a fast-paced environment.
• Advise internal customers on contracting, legal, finance, and business strategies, as well as organizational policies and procedures.
• Identify business and legal risks, propose mitigation strategies, escalate issues for legal review and resolution as appropriate, and represent the organization’s interests professionally and in a solutions-oriented manner.
• Negotiate contract terms directly with customers, general contractors, subcontractors, and other third parties.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the organization and with the global legal and compliance function.
• Exercise sound judgment when identifying and escalating issues to management.
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the operating room renovation organization and communications business unit.
• Monitor and track contract-related matters and proactively provide status updates.
• Identify and help implement system or process improvements that increase efficiency, improve compliance, or reduce costs.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for operating room renovation contracts and as the primary point of contact for initial reviews of contractual documents requiring legal review.
• Partner with attorneys on formal education programs, classes, and events by creating content, presenting information, and answering questions on legal and contract management topics affecting the operating room renovation organization.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key business stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Partner with attorneys to develop new contract templates.
• Assume additional responsibility for reviewing non-commercial contracts for the Endoscopy division, as capacity permits.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of work experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Experience supporting contracts for construction, renovation, facility installation, capital equipment, or project-based work.
• Experience identifying and implementing contracting, workflow, or process improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting healthcare, medical device, hospital, operating room, or other regulated environments.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Sales, Operations, Project Management, or commercial teams.
• Experience drafting and reviewing documentation.
• Experience with direct contract negotiations.
• Expertise with MS Office products.
• Salesforce experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Posted Date: 08/11/2026. This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

United States of America pay ranges:

• USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
• US5: $93,800 - $156,200 USD Annual
• US10: $98,200 - $163,700 USD Annual
• US15: $102,700 - $171,100 USD Annual
• US20: $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual
• US30: $116,100 - $193,400 USD Annual

Health benefits include medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, a wellbeing program, and a tobacco cessation program.

Financial benefits include a Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), a 401(k) plan, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

Depending on customer requirements, employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Location

Remote position, with a strong preference for candidates located near Dallas, TX.