Remote Contract Analyst: Risk & Negotiation

Sacbar; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with employer match

Employee Stock Ownership Program

Job summary

Stillwater Sciences seeks a Contract Analyst to support the review, negotiation, administration, and tracking of contracts across the company, including professional service and subconsultant agreements. The role identifies contractual risks and helps ensure compliance with policy and client requirements.

The successful candidate will partner with project managers and leadership to protect Stillwater's interests while enabling project delivery.

Qualifications

• Understanding of contract language, obligations, and risk concepts relevant to professional service firms.
• Ability to review legal and contractual documents and understand key contract terms and conditions.
• Collaborative approach with reliable follow-through and attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze client, prime, and subcontract agreements to identify contractual obligations, risks, and key contractual terms, including indemnification, IP, payment, insurance, and confidentiality provisions.
• Evaluate prime contract and client contract provisions for consistency and applicability to our work.
• Compare agreed-to contract terms from previous contracts with new contracts.
• Evaluate flow-down provisions from client contract when Stillwater is a subcontractor.
• Review standard agreements embedded in requests for proposals and draft requested edits/additions as part of our proposal to the client.
• Identify unacceptable contract terms and conditions and draft alternative language with thoughtful and professional rationale and responses.
• Work with Stillwater signatories and project managers to negotiate acceptable contract terms and conditions.
• Work with stakeholders and counsel to develop and maintain standard contract language, templates, and negotiation guidelines.
• Interpret and communicate complex contract terms clearly and succinctly to non-legal stakeholders.

Skills

Contract language

Review of legal documents

Risk concepts

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/English/legal

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Stillwater Sciences seeks a Contract Analyst to support the review, negotiation, administration, and tracking of contracts across the company, including professional service and subconsultant agreements. The role identifies contractual risks and helps ensure compliance with policy and client requirements.

The successful candidate will partner with project managers and leadership to protect Stillwater's interests while enabling project delivery.