What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contracts Manager position at Pinkerton?
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At Pinkerton, the mission is to protect our clients. To do this, we provide enterprise risk management services and programs specifically designed for each client. Pinkerton employees are one of our most important assets and critical to the delivery of world-class solutions. Bonded together, we share a commitment to integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
Job Summary:
The Contracts Manager, assigned to one of Pinkerton's largest global clients, will review, draft, and negotiate contracts, provide training and contractual support, and partner with business teams and the Legal department to provide day-to-day advice on internal processes and policies. The Manager drives continuous process improvement projects and development of the client's customized contract repository.
Essential Functions:
- Represent Pinkerton's core values of integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
- Maintain confidential handling of client's vendor contracts, vendor relationships, and related information.
- Research, develop, and implement innovate best-in-class contract practices.
- Build legal operations function as first embedded legal subject matter expert in client business unit.
- Review, draft, negotiate, and track vendor agreements including nondisclosure agreements, services agreements, and subscription agreements in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Perform risk assessments and provide mitigation advice in partnership with client's Legal department, with a focus on joint employment and enforceability.
- Respond to contractual inquiries on a timely basis and in compliance with enterprise policies in partnership with client's Legal department
- in collaboration with key business partners, evaluate contractual SLAs and additional financial terms to ensure operational cohesion.
- Manage a portfolio of projects and tools related to the contract lifecycle, internal processes and policies, and business partner training.
- Develop and manage contract knowledge management resources defining enterprise-level processes and policies.
- Develop and manage contract lifecycle management (CLM) customization to fit evolving client needs.
- Develop and manage relationships with key business partners with a focus on the client's legal department.
- Develop and deliver the client's internal teams with progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Guide team members and ensure goals and objectives are met.
- Provide procedural review, analysis, and development within the business unit.
- Explore and adopt changing technology in preparedness for and to accommodate evolving company needs.
- All other duties, as assigned.
Education, Experience, and Certifications:
Bachelor's degree with three to five years of legal operations experience focused on contract management activities including CLM implementation, planning and leading complex negotiations, and managing supplier contracts. Pinkerton is an inclusive employer who seeks candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Competencies:
- Collaborative and positively influence suppliers, business partners, and internal team members globally.
- Knowledge of legal operations fundamentals.
- Understanding of legal ethics and business ethics
- Able to interpret financial terms in contracts with limited guidance.
- Project management skills.
- Client orientated and results driven.
- Able to operate and execute effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and changing deadlines.
- Able to navigate complex ethical landscape with consistent integrity.
- Attentive to detail and accuracy.
- Able to carry out multiple complex assignments simultaneously.
- Able to identify, define, prioritize, resolve problems, and draw supportable conclusions.
- Serve as a positive and effective team leader.
- Computer skills; Microsoft Office.
Working Conditions:
With or without reasonable accommodation, requires the physical and mental capacity to effectively perform all essential functions;
- Regular computer usage.
- Occasional reaching and lifting of small objects and operating office equipment.
- Frequent sitting.
- Regular meetings with team members and client representatives globally, often outside of regular work hours.
- Travel, as required.
Pinkerton is an equal opportunity employer to all applicants and positions without regard to race/ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital/prenatal status, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, religion, creed, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any protected status by local, state, federal or country-specific law.
