SaaS Contracts Leader - Negotiation, Drafting & Compliance

Epicor Software Corporation; Dublin (CA); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 131,000; Full time

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Health and Wellness

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Career Development

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Global Mobility

Job summary

Epicor is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to partner with Legal and business stakeholders on sophisticated contract review, drafting, negotiation, administration, and process support. You will oversee a broad portfolio of commercial agreements, with emphasis on SaaS, software licensing, cloud services, and technology transactions.

You will work independently within approved contracting guidelines, advise internal teams on structure and risks, and support the end-to-end contract lifecycle from

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience required.
• Five or more years of experience in contract management, commercial contracting, legal operations, or a related field.
• Two or more years of experience supporting technology, software, SaaS, cloud, or professional services agreements.
• Demonstrated experience independently negotiating customer-facing commercial agreements.
• Experience partnering with Sales in a high-volume contracting environment.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems or Agiloft is a plus.
• Contract management, paralegal, or legal/commercial certification such as NCMA, CPCM, or CCCM preferred.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and administer complex commercial agreements in alignment with company policies, business objectives, and approved contracting standards.
• Lead negotiations with customers, suppliers, partners, and their procurement, legal, privacy, information security, and executive stakeholders.
• Advise Sales, Consulting Services, Finance, Legal, and other internal stakeholders on contract structure, obligations, risks, fallback positions, and negotiation strategy.
• Support the contract lifecycle from intake and initial review through execution, implementation, renewal, amendment, and closeout.
• Identify, assess, document, and escalate contractual, commercial, operational, privacy, security, and compliance risks.
• Prepare contract summaries, approval materials, and risk assessments that clearly communicate material commitments, deviations, and required actions.
• Maintain and improve contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, negotiation guidance, and contracting processes.
• Manage legal intake, coordinate stakeholder input, and support assignment and prioritization of contracting matters.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve contracting operations, reduce cycle times, increase data quality, and strengthen cross-functional collaboration.
• Extract and maintain key obligations, renewal dates, and other contract data for business use; provide guidance, mentorship, and informal training to other contracts professionals as appropriate.

Skills

SaaS contracts

Cloud services

Software licensing

Risk management

Contract lifecycle

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Agiloft

Job description

Epicor is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to partner with Legal and business stakeholders on sophisticated contract review, drafting, negotiation, administration, and process support. You will oversee a broad portfolio of commercial agreements, with emphasis on SaaS, software licensing, cloud services, and technology transactions.

You will work independently within approved contracting guidelines, advise internal teams on structure and risks, and support the end-to-end contract lifecycle from