Contract Manager

Pay Rate: $50 per hour

Location: Boston or New York

Duration: 6 months. Potential of extension and conversion

Work Mode: Hybrid

Summary:

• Draft, review, and negotiate third-party service agreements using company standard templates, policies, and approval paths.
• Focus on statements of work for staff augmentation, managed services, renewals across the data and analytics portfolio, and contracting workstreams supporting new investment vehicles.

Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements: Master service agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs), service level agreements (SLAs), order forms, amendments, third-party information security agreements, and data privacy and processing agreements.
• Advise company business owners: Translate contractual rights, obligations, and risk positions into plain terms for non-specialists.
• Partner across the contracting path: Collaborate with Global Procurement, Legal, Third Party Risk Management, Information Security, and Data Privacy to ensure agreements move smoothly.
• Resolve disputes and unclear terms: Investigate performance issues, service credit claims, scope disagreements, and invoicing discrepancies.
• Maintain the contract record: Keep agreements, amendments, key dates, renewal triggers, termination rights, and spend commitments accurate and accessible.
• Track consumption against contracted entitlements: Monitor actual usage against entitlements and recommend actions based on thresholds.
• Support the renewal and negotiation calendar: Track expirations and auto-renewal dates, prepare negotiation positions, and brief vendor managers and business owners.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 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.
• Proven negotiation experience with third-party service providers.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and comfort operating with business owners, legal counsel, procurement, and vendors simultaneously.
• Excellent organizational skills and evidence of managing a portfolio of concurrent agreements against competing deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• 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 Skills:

• Familiarity with fund administration and accounting services, loan servicing, market and reference data licensing, order management and portfolio systems, or professional services and staff augmentation.
• Familiarity with software licensing and subscription models.
• Exposure to regulatory and third-party risk requirements relevant to financial services.
• Experience contracting with offshore or nearshore service providers.