Remote Contract & Vendor Management Lead

World Business Lenders, LLC; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 33,213,000 - 41,517,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD compensation

Paid time off (PTO)

Fully remote work environment

Job summary

World Business Lenders, LLC is seeking a Contract and Vendor Management Team Lead to own the contracting lifecycle, vendor engagement, and spend governance within Corporate Legal. This remote, multinational team leads templates, risk controls, and performance metrics.

You will manage NDAs, contract repositories, invoices, and escalations, collaborating with Finance, IT, and business owners to ensure timely, compliant contracting across the organization.

Qualifications

• Must have a law degree with proof of qualification.
• 5+ years of experience in contract management, vendor management, legal operations, procurement, or an in-house legal environment.
• Demonstrated 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 skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake, review, negotiation, approval, execution, storage, renewal, and termination workflow for Corporate Legal contracts and engagement letters.
• Review NDAs and contracts from across the organization, including business, risk, and legal issue spotting, and recommend appropriate revisions or elevate matters as appropriate.
• Maintain approved templates, playbooks, approval standards, and a complete contract repository.
• Track key terms, obligations, notice periods, renewals, pricing changes, service levels, and termination rights.
• Coordinate with Finance, Operations, Information Technology, and business owners to resolve contract issues and obtain required approvals.
• Manage relationships with outside counsel, legal vendors, and service providers, including onboarding, engagement scope, performance expectations, and issue escalation.
• Establish vendor performance standards, service-level expectations, review cadences, and corrective-action processes.
• Support competitive sourcing, due diligence, conflicts checks, and evaluation of new vendors and law firms.
• Drive consistency and efficiency in law firm engagement and matter-assignment processes.
• Review outside counsel and vendor invoices for alignment with engagement terms, approved scope, rates, and billing requirements.
• Maintain legal spend, budget, accrual, and variance reporting in partnership with Finance.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate vendors, renegotiate terms, improve service, and control costs.
• Provide concise reporting on vendor performance, contract status, upcoming renewals, spend, and risk items.
• Build and document scalable contracting and vendor-management policies, procedures, controls, and quality-assurance standards.
• Maintain appropriate records of approvals, executed agreements, amendments, insurance, and supporting due-diligence documentation.
• Escalate material contractual, performance, compliance, security, or financial risks to Corporate Legal leadership.
• Supervise and develop the Contract and Vendor Management Analyst, including workload assignment and quality review.

Skills

Contract management

Vendor management

Negotiation

Project management

English fluency

Communication skills

Education

Law degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Teams

Contract lifecycle systems

Job description

World Business Lenders, LLC is seeking a Contract and Vendor Management Team Lead to own the contracting lifecycle, vendor engagement, and spend governance within Corporate Legal. This remote, multinational team leads templates, risk controls, and performance metrics.

You will manage NDAs, contract repositories, invoices, and escalations, collaborating with Finance, IT, and business owners to ensure timely, compliant contracting across the organization.