Senior Contracts Manager
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to join Cushman & Wakefield’s dynamic legal team in support of the enterprise-wide Contracting Centre of Excellence providing transactional legal support for various service lines including Brokerage, Procurement, Asset Services, and Global Occupier Services. This role reports to the Assistant General Counsel and leader of the C&W Contracting Centre of Excellence and is responsible for implementing and promoting contracting operational efficiencies across the enterprise and drafting, negotiating, and managing high volume of commercial contracts. The ideal candidate will have strong commercial contracting experience including with technology contracts and engagements, risk assessment skills, project management skills, and proven experience independently drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts. The ideal candidate will also have a demonstrated ability to leverage technology and artificial intelligence solutions to transform contracting processes, enhance scalability, mitigate risk, and drive greater speed and consistency across commercial transactions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, law, real estate, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum 7 years’ experience independently negotiating and managing processes for complex commercial contracts.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracts; experience negotiating commercial real estate industry contracts is a plus.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; must approach each task with innovative thinking, flexibility and drive.
- Innovative thinker with strong written and verbal communication skills with a willingness to initiate, drive and promote change management with respect to contracting processes and approach.
- Keen ability to multitask and successfully manage competing priorities.
- Expert managing contract lifecycle and related systems and in all aspects of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
- Proficient managing artificial intelligence tools including development of prompts and building of agents
Responsibilities
- Analyze, draft, negotiate and manage commercial contracts, including technology agreements, and related documents for the company’s business, to ensure contract terms align with business objectives, policies, laws and regulations.
- Identify and mitigate risks in various vendor agreements, agency agreements, engagement letters and other real estate and commercial contracts.
- Demonstrated proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for developing proficiency in, artificial intelligence and other legal technology tools, with the ability to effectively integrate such solutions into contracting workflows to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making, and accelerate transaction execution.
- Monitor legal, regulatory and internal policy changes, update attorneys and contract templates as needed to ensure compliance with laws, corporate directives, policies and procedures.
- Contribute to operational improvements and best practices for contract workflows, templates and efficient contract handling.
- Collaborate with team attorneys to share best practices, align and document negotiation and risk management strategies.
- Advise internal clients with respect to policies and contracts.
- Support attorneys with development and updating training materials; and other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life, and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
