OverviewConsilio is seeking a Contract Manager to support the Company's global contract lifecycle management ("CLM") program and commercial contracting function. The Contract Manager will serve as a key liaison between Sales, Commercial Operations, Legal, and Corporate Systems, helping to streamline contract review, negotiation, execution, and reporting processes through Salesforce, Agiloft, and AI-enabled contract review tools.
The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of contract lifecycle management, experience reviewing commercial agreements, and a passion for process improvement and legal technology. This role will be responsible for managing contract workflows, conducting first-level contract reviews, leveraging AI-enabled review tools, and ensuring agreements are efficiently routed through the appropriate approval and negotiation processes.
This position is a critical component of Consilio's legal transformation strategy and will help drive operational excellence, improve speed to contract, and allow attorneys to focus on higher-risk and strategic legal matters.
Responsibilities
Contract Review & Negotiation Support
- Conduct first-level review of client, vendor, and partner agreements.
- Review agreements against approved legal playbooks, negotiation guidelines, and fallback positions.
- Identify deviations from standard contract language and route high-risk matters for legal review.
- Prepare initial contract redlines and proposed revisions.
- Coordinate contract negotiations with Sales, Procurement, and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate execution of standard agreements with minimal attorney involvement where appropriate.
- Track and manage contract obligations and critical deadlines.
Conflict Intake & Review
- Manage the conflicts intake process for new matters, clients, and engagements.
- Review conflict submissions for completeness and accuracy.
- Conduct conflict checks and affiliation research.
- Analyze conflict reports and identify potential issues requiring further review.
Contract Lifecycle Management (Agiloft)
- Serve as a primary business user of Consilio's Agiloft CLM platform.
- Manage contract records, reporting, metadata, workflows, and contract status updates.
- Ensure proper linkage between Salesforce opportunities and Agiloft contract records.
- Monitor contract workflow queues and proactively drive matters toward completion.
- Assist in user acceptance testing ("UAT"), workflow enhancements, and future CLM implementations.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve contract management efficiency.
AI-Assisted Contract Review
- Utilize AI-enabled contract review tools to analyze agreements and identify legal and commercial risks.
- Review and validate AI-generated contract redlines and recommendations.
- Support development and refinement of clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and AI review criteria.
- Assist Legal Operations in measuring AI effectiveness and adoption.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Serve as a liaison between:
- Sales and Commercial Operations
- Legal
- Corporate Systems
- Information Security
- Finance
- Privacy and Compliance Teams
- Coordinate contract approvals and stakeholder reviews.
- Facilitate communication between business teams and attorneys regarding contract status and risk assessments.
- Escalate matters requiring specialized legal review.
Reporting and Analytics
- Develop and maintain contract metrics and dashboards.
- Report on:
- Contract cycle times
- Volume by agreement type
- Negotiation trends
- Attorney escalation rates
- AI review utilization
- SLA compliance
- Provide leadership with insights regarding contracting bottlenecks and process improvement opportunities.
Escalation Authority
The Contract Manager will be expected to independently manage routine contractual issues and escalate matters involving:
- Limitation of liability deviations
- Indemnification provisions
- Intellectual property ownership
- Data privacy and cybersecurity obligations
- Regulatory compliance concerns
- Insurance requirements
- Non-standard pricing structures
- Strategic client negotiations
- Significant commercial or legal risk
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in:
- Contract management
- Commercial contracting
- Legal operations
- Procurement contracting
- Deal desk or CLM administration
- Experience reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements.
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management systems (Agiloft preferred).
- Experience working with Salesforce or similar CRM platforms.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Paralegal certificate or legal studies background.
- Experience supporting legal departments or in-house legal teams.
- Experience with AI-enabled contract review solutions.
- Experience building and maintaining clause libraries and negotiation playbooks.
- Knowledge of data privacy, cybersecurity, SaaS, and technology agreements.
- Experience supporting global contracting operations.
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