EY Law - Contract Solutions - Manager - FY26 HDG#2291
About The Position
EY is hiring a Manager for its US EY Law practice, within the Legal Transform and Operate/Contract Solutions team. The team helps clients improve enterprise contracting operations and deliver value across their organizations, serving high-profile national and multinational clients. This growing practice offers career development opportunities and a collaborative, learning-focused environment with coaching, mentoring, global opportunities, and technology-driven methodologies. The Manager will lead contract-focused project engagements and support clients responding to transactions and other triggering events. The role involves reviewing, analyzing, abstracting, remediating, redlining, and negotiating contracts; identifying and mitigating risk while meeting commercial objectives; and helping client teams understand contractual risk and compliance. The Manager will work with client business and legal stakeholders, lead project communications, manage delivery and escalation issues, support use of contract management technologies and AI, and improve processes and reporting. The position requires coordinating team delivery to agreed scope, client needs, and service-level agreements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 to 7 years of experience, including a combination of experience in a large multinational corporation, law firm, or management consulting firm.
- Membership in good standing with a State Bar or relevant certification, such as CPA, CIPP/E, CIPPM, CISA, CISSP, CISM, LPIP, or PMP.
- Deep contracting subject matter expertise, including ability to work with different contract types and structures and strong issue-spotting ability.
- Contract negotiation experience handling high volumes across a variety of transactions, ideally on both the buy and sell sides.
- Experience leading workstreams in large data-driven engagements.
- Strong communication, writing, interpersonal, and presentation skills, both formal and informal.
- Familiarity with contracting or CLM technology and interest in developing and using leading AI applications.
- Responsiveness to the needs of internal colleagues and external clients.
- Strong relationship-building and people-leadership skills, including teamwork, encouraging differing viewpoints, and effectively managing conflict.
- High energy, self-starter attitude, ability to work independently, analytical capability, quick learning, organization, flexibility, and results orientation.
Nice To Haves
- JD or master’s degree in a preferred field, such as Information Systems, Business, Analytics, Finance, or Accounting.
- Experience working with legal-adjacent functions such as procurement, supply chain, or commercial, and understanding non-legal business objectives.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and project-management skills are desirable.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of project-based engagements involving contract review, abstraction, analysis, and remediation in response to client transactions and other triggering events.
- Create executive summaries of executed contracts to help client business teams understand risk and compliance with positions.
- Review, redline, and negotiate a broad range of contract types, including procurement and sale of services, technology, data, content, and products.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to mitigate identified risks in contract language and fulfill commercial objectives within stipulated timeframes.
- Understand and work within client-specific processes and negotiation strategies.
- Communicate independently with client business and legal stakeholders to build and strengthen relationships.
- Work with a team to deliver services within the agreed project scope, support client satisfaction, comply with SLAs, and identify client needs.
- Lead regular communication forums with internal and external stakeholders.
- Serve as an escalation point for technical and people-management issues affecting the project team.
- Understand, implement, and facilitate the use of contract management technologies and AI point solutions to deliver services and address client needs.
- Innovate and improve processes and techniques related to workflow, time management, and knowledge management.
- Facilitate daily, weekly, and monthly metrics reporting to internal and external project stakeholders, including senior management.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Pension plan
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid holidays
- Winter and summer breaks
- Personal and family care time off
- Other leaves of absence
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
