Senior Contracts Manager, Procurement

Pluralsight•Westlake, TX

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

A Senior Contracts Manager is a highly strategic role responsible for driving value, mitigating enterprise risk, and leading all procurement-related contracting needs. This role involves drafting and negotiating various complex commercial and data privacy agreements with key vendors, and acting as a critical business partner to the procurement team.

Requirements

Extensive experience managing contracts (including drafting and negotiation) in a corporate environment.
Ability to manage and deliver on a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and proactively anticipating issues
Must be a creative problem solver and capable project manager
Significant experience in oral negotiations with minimal direction, project management, risk awareness, and clear understanding of when to seek approval
Strong eye for business with the ability to clearly recognize risk elements in business transactions, providing advice to procurement teams in carrying out the terms
Strong experience partnering with procurement teams to develop contract related processes to streamline and improve cradle to grave contract process
Experience partnering with legal, security, and privacy teams
Experience with data privacy rules, GDPR, cyber-security, AI and negotiating complex contracts with these issues with vendors is strongly preferred
Experience with a contract management system, e.g., Link squares or other CLM
Experience with procurement software such as Zip or other related software
Experience with electronic signature software, e.g., Docusign
Prior experience working in a SaaS company or other highly regulated industry preferred
Requires a minimum of 8 years of related or equivalent experience; or 6+ years with an advanced degree.
Master's Degree or Juris Doctor helpful but not required

Responsibilities

Analyze, interpret, and negotiate sophisticated provisions in a variety of procurement related agreements, and data privacy agreements to identify alignment with Pluralsight’s policies.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams and experience supporting a procurement team during contract review, providing guidance to internal and external customers on commonly requested edits, non-standard terms, policies, questions, etc.
Review and revise standard and non-standard agreements to adhere to Pluralsight’s standard policies and procedures.
Own and optimize the end-to-end contract workflow, focusing on efficiency and system governance using CLM tools (LinkSquares/Zip) to reduce friction and improve the customer experience.
Complete assigned projects as determined by the needs of the legal department.