Senior Contracts Manager, Procurement & Governance

Atlantis Resorts; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Food & beverage privileges

Discounted rates at Kerzner properties

Comprehensive health insurance

Annual flights home

Life insurance

Wellness and social initiatives

Job summary

Atlantis Dubai, part of Kerzner International, seeks a Contracts Manager to own end-to-end governance of the organization’s commercial contracts portfolio. You will draft, redline, negotiate, and manage lifecycle for medium to high-risk agreements, driving standardization, digitization, and analytics across the contract landscape, including AI-enabled initiatives.

You will partner with Legal, Finance, and Procurement leadership to ensure compliant, robust contracts aligned with policy and risk

Qualifications

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts in a large organization.
• Designing and implementing contract governance frameworks and standardization initiatives.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems (Coupa CLM preferred).
• Strong commercial acumen balancing risk, value and operational pragmatism.

Responsibilities

• Lead drafting, review, redlining, and negotiation of medium to high-risk contracts.
• Perform detailed contractual risk assessments and mitigation recommendations.
• Design and enhance a scalable contract governance framework.
• Ensure consistency across categories while allowing flexibility for high-value deals.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and operations to accelerate decisions.
• Drive process improvements for efficiency, visibility, and control.
• Lead expansion and optimization of CLM tooling and automation.
• Ensure compliance with Procurement Policy and local regulations.
• Manage legal risk and escalations with the VP – Legal.
• Maintain audit readiness across lifecycle and renewals.
• Own multi-year contract strategy and renewal planning.
• Use data-driven insights to inform Procurement strategy and supplier management.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Risk assessment

Contract governance

Coupa CLM

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, or Supply Chain

Tools

Coupa CLM

Job description

Atlantis Dubai, part of Kerzner International, seeks a Contracts Manager to own end-to-end governance of the organization’s commercial contracts portfolio. You will draft, redline, negotiate, and manage lifecycle for medium to high-risk agreements, driving standardization, digitization, and analytics across the contract landscape, including AI-enabled initiatives.

You will partner with Legal, Finance, and Procurement leadership to ensure compliant, robust contracts aligned with policy and risk