Remote Senior Contract & Vendor Management Specialist

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD compensation

PTO

Fully remote

Job summary

World Business Lenders (WBL) is seeking a Contract and Vendor Management SME to own the operational framework for contracts, outside counsel, legal vendors, and service providers supporting Corporate Legal. You will establish consistent contracting, engagement, performance, and renewal processes while balancing legal risk and cost.

You will build scalable processes, manage relationships with vendors, and provide reporting on spend, renewals, and risk items in a fully remote, multinational

Qualifications

• 5+ years of contract or vendor-management experience.
• 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 and the ability to handle multiple deadlines and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake, review, negotiation, approval, execution, storage, renewal, and termination workflow for Corporate Legal contracts and engagement letters.
• 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 Legal, Finance, Operations, IT, and business owners to resolve contract issues and obtain approvals.
• Manage relationships with outside counsel, legal vendors, and service providers, including onboarding, scope, performance expectations, and escalation.
• Review invoices for alignment with terms, maintain spend reporting in partnership with Finance, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Build scalable contracting and vendor-management policies and supervise staff.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Project management

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office

Contract management systems

Job description

World Business Lenders (WBL) is seeking a Contract and Vendor Management SME to own the operational framework for contracts, outside counsel, legal vendors, and service providers supporting Corporate Legal. You will establish consistent contracting, engagement, performance, and renewal processes while balancing legal risk and cost.

You will build scalable processes, manage relationships with vendors, and provide reporting on spend, renewals, and risk items in a fully remote, multinational