Remote Senior Contracts Leader for Global Agreements

Celestica; Las Vegas (NV); Remote; USD 123,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica is seeking a detail-oriented Contracts Manager to oversee all aspects of organizational contracts. The role involves drafting, negotiating, and executing a wide range of agreements while ensuring compliance with legal standards and company policies.

The position requires exceptional analytical and communication skills to manage risk, optimize financial outcomes, and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors/clients.

Qualifications

• Excellent writing and communication skills, as well as significant experience and knowledge of legal concepts, contract development and negotiation practices.
• Ability to independently draft high complexity contractual documents is a key element of this position.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent negotiating skills, perception management skills and relationship management skills.
• Good HR skills as well as employee/team management skills and abilities

Responsibilities

• Participates in the negotiations of highly complex agreements and large global customer contracts (with values often exceeding $100M) as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including representatives from Business Development and Sales, Finance, Legal and various Global Customer Units.
• Identifies stakeholders and ensures that all relevant interests are represented.
• Requires ability to evaluate and prioritize often-divergent interests.
• Makes decisions with respect to balancing the need to be customer-responsive with that of protecting the company's interests.
• Evaluates risks associated with contract terms and provides management with contractual risk analysis.
• Liaisons with CLS legal counsel and senior management.
• Interprets legal advice and provides advisory and educational support to all participants in the contract process.
• Acts as an advisor to the VP GM Meta account owner and provides guidance to more junior department members.
• Works independently and develops extremely complex agreements with little input from the department Director.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Risk analysis

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Celestica is seeking a detail-oriented Contracts Manager to oversee all aspects of organizational contracts. The role involves drafting, negotiating, and executing a wide range of agreements while ensuring compliance with legal standards and company policies.

The position requires exceptional analytical and communication skills to manage risk, optimize financial outcomes, and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors/clients.