Senior Contract Manager
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VECConstruction technology
Full-time remote role within the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary140,000 - 165,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Seven or more years of contract review and negotiation experience
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Excel
Requirements
- Seven or more years of contract review and negotiation experience.
- Substantial recent experience in architecture, engineering, construction consulting, or construction technology services.
- Direct responsibility for drafting redlines and negotiating professional-services agreements and proprietary GC subcontract forms with client legal or contracts teams.
- Strong understanding of professional-services standard of care, indemnity and defense, liability limits, consequential damages, construction insurance, intellectual property, and payment protections.
- Experience aligning subconsultant agreements with client obligations.
- Experience building or improving contract processes and execution controls.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word track changes and comparison tools for redlining and version control.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management or document management platforms, or comparable systems for intake, approval, and records.
- Proficiency with e-signature platforms such as DocuSign or Adobe Acrobat Sign.
- Proficiency with prequalification and vendor registration platforms, and Excel or Smartsheet for tracking and reporting.
- Sound independent judgment, including recognizing when leadership or specialist advice is needed.
Responsibilities
- Review, draft, and negotiate client, GC, subconsultant, and vendor agreements, including amendments, NDAs, and data and security terms.
- Negotiate directly with general contractor and client legal or contracts teams to discuss proposed language and resolve terms.
- Align subconsultant agreements with obligations VEC has taken on with its clients.
- Negotiate indemnity, defense obligations, liability limits, insurance requirements, payment protections, intellectual property, and other contractual risks.
- Bring leadership clear recommendations on material exceptions, including the risk and trade-off.
- Control approvals, final versions, and signature sequencing; confirm signing copies match agreed terms before execution.
- Maintain contract records and execution controls, and ensure work begins under an executed agreement or approved exception.
- Manage contractual obligations, notices, changes, renewals, disputes, and closeout; surface obligations before they become issues.
- Build contract templates and a playbook, and train project teams on contract standards and escalation paths.
- Coordinate insurance renewals, the insurance broker, and outside counsel, and determine when specialist input is needed.
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