Commercial Contracts Manager
About The Position
The Legal team at ZT Systems, a Sanmina Company, is seeking a Commercial Contracts Manager to help drive contracting excellence, operational rigor, and cross-functional coordination across a fast-paced business supporting some of the world's most sophisticated technology customers. This role serves as a critical partner to Legal, Finance, Accounting, Business Planning, Sales, Operations, and executive leadership. The successful candidate will bring structure, discipline, and visibility to commercial processes while helping ensure contractual commitments, approvals, and key business obligations are effectively managed and tracked. The ideal candidate enjoys building processes, solving operational challenges, improving efficiency, and serving as a trusted resource across multiple business functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, law, or relevant discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in contract administration, legal operations, commercial operations, deal desk, sales operations, procurement operations, or related functions.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracting processes and approval workflows.
- Exceptional organizational, project management, and follow-through skills.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills and experience with document-management tools.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting technology, manufacturing, cloud infrastructure, hardware, telecommunications, or supply chain operations.
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems.
- Experience with legal operations tools, workflow automation, reporting platforms, or process-improvement initiatives.
- Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools in a business or legal environment.
- Experience operating in a public-company control environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage and continuously improve commercial contracting workflows and documentation processes.
- Coordinate approvals, contract routing, execution, storage, and recordkeeping activities.
- Track contractual obligations, commitments, dependencies, action items, and key milestones.
- Support customer audits, internal reviews, and compliance-related activities.
- Develop reporting, metrics, dashboards, and management summaries.
- Prepare negotiation status reports, approval packages, and executive-ready summaries.
- Support contract intake, NDA management, and related legal operations activities.
- Partner with stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Accounting, Sales, Business Planning, and Operations to drive process discipline and visibility.
- Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and improve contracting and documentation practices.
- Help evaluate and leverage legal technology, workflow tools, AI-enabled productivity solutions, and contract lifecycle management platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Performance-based annual bonus eligibility
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Tuition reimbursement for eligible education programs
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with access to leading providers
- Mental health resources and employee wellness support programs
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Paid time off (PTO) and company-paid holidays
- Parental leave and family care support programs
- Structured training programs and on-the-job learning opportunities
- Matching gifts and volunteer programs to support causes you care about
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
