Commercial Contracts Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Required skills and experience

• 5 to 7 years in commercial contract management, procurement or contracts-focused legal work, including direct ownership of MSAs, SOWs, SLAs, information security schedules and data privacy and processing terms.
• Experience gained at a global investment manager, an alternatives manager, a fund administrator, an insurance investment arm or a comparable investment organization. We are looking for people who already understand how an investment platform runs and who will not need the operating context explained to them.
• Proven negotiation experience with third-party service providers, including the ability to hold a position on liability, indemnification, data handling, termination and service credits while keeping the relationship workable.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and comfort operating with business owners, legal counsel, procurement and vendors at the same time.
• Excellent organizational skills and evidence of managing a portfolio of concurrent agreements against competing deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, particularly the ability to explain a contractual issue and its practical consequences to a non-legal audience.
• Working experience with contract lifecycle management platforms and contract repositories.
• Ability to adapt as requirements shift, especially around data privacy, information security and third-party risk expectations.

Preferred experience

• Familiarity with any of the following agreement types: fund administration and accounting services, loan servicing or agency services, market and reference data licensing, order management and portfolio systems, or professional services and staff augmentation.
• Familiarity with software licensing and subscription models, including seat-based, enterprise, tiered and consumption-based pricing, and the entitlement and redistribution terms that come with market data agreements.
• Exposure to regulatory and third-party risk requirements relevant to financial services, including outsourcing and operational resilience expectations.
• Experience contracting with offshore or nearshore service providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in contracts, procurement or legal, specifically including commercial contract terms and third-party service agreements.
• Experience at an investment manager, fund administrator or comparable investment organization