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Innovative consulting and research company seeking a Contracts Manager with 3+ years’ experience.
Essential Duties
- Manage all client MSA and NDA contract reviews and compliance requests, including edits and negotiation.
- Support the Sales and Account Management team when negotiating individual project SOWs.
- Advise internal team members on contract and compliance requirements, policies, and processes.
- Update and maintain client requirements exception reporting summarizing terms & conditions that CMB needs to adhere to.
- Partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., Account Management, Client Services, Information Security, IT) to operationalize all client contractual requirements.
- Oversee and ensure written documentation for all clients, projects, and committed revenues.
- Manage vendor onboarding and MSA processes with internal vendor owners and outside providers.
- Manage approved vendor list for internal stakeholders to reference when engaging with outside providers.
- Develop and deploy processes to track contract compliance across internal functions and with vendors to ensure adherence to policies, processes, standards, and regulations and to mitigate risk.
- Manage vendor offboarding process (companies and individual contractors) when CMB no longer requires their services.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop new contracts with outside partners and vendors, as needed.
- Partner with Information Security on vendor risk assessments and mitigations strategies.
- Analyze new laws, regulations, and contract trends for potential impact on business operations.
- Identify, develop, and implement continuous improvements to contracts and compliance agreements, policies, and processes.
- Work on other responsibilities and special projects related to contracts and compliance, as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree; JD preferred
- Minimum of three years of experience leading and driving contracts management and compliance processes in a professional services environment.
- Highly effective multi-tasker and ability to work with multiple stakeholders simultaneously in a matrixed setting.
- Exceptional project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to drive bodies of work from start to successful completion.
- Strong relationship building and diplomacy skills with a customer service mindset.
- Effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer.
- Outstanding negotiations and expectation management skills.
- Creative thinker and problem solver with a can- do attitude when managing challenging situations.
- Leverages technology, including AI, for efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.
Knowledge of compliance best practices and information security standards.
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