Contract and Vendor Management Team Lead

4 hours, 49 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Operations
World Business Lenders

World Business Lenders

World Business Lenders provides short-term loans to small businesses, focusing on their ability to repay rather than the owner's credit score, thereby facilitating access to working capital for equipment purchases and expansion efforts.

Real Estate
251-1K
Founded 2011
$25M raised

Description

  • Own contract intake, review, negotiation, approval, execution, storage, renewal, and termination workflows.
  • Review NDAs and contracts, identify legal and business issues, recommend revisions, and escalate matters when appropriate.
  • Maintain contract templates, playbooks, approval standards, repositories, key-term tracking, and renewal schedules.
  • Manage outside counsel, legal vendors, and service providers, including onboarding, scope, performance, and escalation.
  • Establish vendor standards, service levels, review cadences, corrective actions, sourcing, due diligence, and conflicts checks.
  • Review invoices and manage legal spend, budgets, accruals, variances, and cost-control opportunities with Finance.
  • Produce reporting on contract status, renewals, vendor performance, spend, risks, and open issues.
  • Develop contracting and vendor-management policies, controls, records, and quality-assurance processes.
  • Escalate contractual, performance, compliance, security, and financial risks to Corporate Legal leadership.
  • Supervise and develop the Contract and Vendor Management Analyst, including workload assignment and quality review.

Requirements

  • Law degree with proof of qualification.
  • 5+ years of experience in contract management, vendor management, legal operations, procurement, or an in-house legal environment.
  • Experience negotiating commercial terms and administering contracts through their full lifecycle.
  • Experience managing outside counsel or professional-service vendors and reviewing invoices, rates, budgets, or accruals.
  • Strong project-management, prioritization, attention-to-detail, and deadline-management skills.
  • Experience with contract drafting, review, negotiation, lifecycle administration, vendor due diligence, and performance management.
  • Proficiency in legal billing, spend analysis, budget tracking, invoice review, contract repositories, matter-management systems, reporting tools, and Microsoft Office.
  • Fluent written and spoken English; proficiency with Outlook and Teams.
  • Experience in financial services, commercial lending, banking, fintech, specialty finance, mortgage lending, or another regulated industry preferred.
  • Reliable internet, a professional remote workspace, and the ability to maintain confidentiality across a multinational remote organization.

Benefits

  • USD-denominated compensation.
  • Paid time off (PTO).
  • Fully remote work environment.

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