Contract Manager, Program & Portfolio Services

Meta; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a contract management expert to join the Infrastructure Data Center (IDC) organization. You will lead contract development, negotiation, and process improvements across multiple teams, ensuring compliance and value realization.

You will partner with finance, legal, and operational teams to manage risk, optimize deals, and drive efficiency in deal execution and reporting. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and strategic sourcing within a large tech environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, contract management, and supply chain operations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Support contract management functions including intake, drafting, negotiation, and process improvement.
• Partner with business leads to navigate operations and spend initiatives with significant risk.
• Drive cross-functional contracts, risk, and cost containment efforts.
• Collaborate with Data Center Development teams and other functions.
• Develop and improve deal-to-contract strategies and ensure policy compliance.
• Assist with SOX compliance and financial reporting related to contracts.

Skills

Contract management

Procurement

Negotiation

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools for workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Contract management software

Job description

Summary

Meta seeks a highly engaged and experienced professional for a contract management role to join our Infrastructure Data Center (IDC) organization. As an IDC Contract Manager, you will partner with multiple teams across the IDC organization and beyond to gather and understand the technical scope, operational, and financial information to maximize contract value and reduce risk to IDC and Meta.The successful candidate will be experienced in procurement and contract development, including scope, commercial, deal strategy, legal, and pricing negotiations. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support IDC's organization from a deal strategy and operational efficiency perspective. Success in the role requires a high degree of process orientation, experience communicating complex contract terms and negotiation outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders, original thinking to proactively identify new and different approaches to structuring deals, and the ability to work across multiple functions as a trusted advisor.

Required Skills

Contract Manager, Program & Portfolio Services Responsibilities:

1. Support the overall contract management function, including deal-to-contract intake, contract drafting, deal negotiation, maintaining contract playbooks, and improving processes and systems

2. Partner with business leads to help navigate complex operations and spend initiatives with significant spend and risk

3. drive cross-functional contracts, risk, and cost containment efforts

4. Collaborate closely with business requesters and partners in Data Center Development

5. Design, Engineering & Construction

6. Facility Operations

7. Sourcing

8. In-house Legal Counsel

9. Finance

10. Business Risk & Insurance

11. and various Legal Compliance teams

12. Partner with business leads to help navigate complex operations and delivery initiatives with significant spend and risk

13. drive cross-functional contracts risk and cost containment efforts

14. Develop and continuously improve deal-to-contract strategies and procedures, ensuring compliance with company policies and controls

15. Act as a liaison between finance and business teams and the general contractor to enforce contract and ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance

16. Manage and mitigate data and user privacy risk to ensure deal compliance

17. Develop and maintain customer relationships to ensure healthy and constructive interactions representing complex contracting issues to business partners

18. Coordinate and drive resolution to key business issues with legal, risk management, corporate contracts, and business leads

19. Provide guidance and internal support for their functional program on the best ways to structure deals

20. Ensure that signed contracts are complete and clearly communicated to all relevant parties, including interpretation to support implementation

21. Examine existing policies and procedures to optimize the end-to-end process from creation of the quote to the completion of signatures with all parties concerned

22. Share best practices with and provide training to team, peers, and outside business units to enhance the quality and efficiency of contracting processes

23. Ensure all approved requests have been properly documented, escalated to the appropriate approval level, and resolved within the applicable Service Level Agreement

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 12+ years of relevant work experience in strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, contract management, and supply chain operations

2. Bachelor's degree or equivalent, with a degree or graduate degree in Supply Chain Management, Accounting, Legal Studies, Business Administration, English, Engineering, Construction Administration, or a similar field

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

2. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

3. Graduate-level professional degree in law (J.D.)

4. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

5. Experience using contract management software or systems to prepare, process, and record contracts and purchase orders

6. Infrastructure portfolio management, construction industry experience, or familiarity with service categories related to data center project and program management, such as general consulting, engineering, research and development, quality, testing, inspection, building management systems, artwork, furniture, and facility operations and maintenance

7. Experience leading or facilitating sourcing or procurement events, including preparing and conducting requests for qualifications, requests for proposals, and requests for quotations

8. Experience in interpreting and complying with corporate policies

9. Experience working in a highly cross-functional environment with multiple stakeholders

Public Compensation

$150,000/year to $209,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry

Internet

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