Senior Contracts Manager

Cushman & Wakefield; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision and dental insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to join the Legal team and support the Contracting Centre of Excellence. You will draft, negotiate, and manage a high volume of commercial contracts, including technology agreements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and policy.

The role requires solid contracting experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to lead process improvements across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, law, real estate, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience independently negotiating and managing processes for complex commercial contracts.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts; experience negotiating technology contracts a plus.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; innovative, flexible thinking.
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities while driving process improvements.
• Expertise in contract lifecycle management and MS Office; readiness to integrate AI into daily work.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, draft, negotiate and manage commercial contracts, including technology agreements.
• Identify and mitigate risks in vendor, agency, and real estate contracts.
• Monitor legal, regulatory and internal policy changes; update templates to ensure compliance.
• Contribute to operational improvements and best practices for contract workflows, templates and efficiency.
• Collaborate with team attorneys to share best practices and align negotiation and risk strategies.
• Advise internal clients with respect to policies and contracts; support training materials.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Risk assessment

Project management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

AI fluency

MS Office proficiency

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, law, real estate, or related field

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)

Job description

Job Title Senior Contracts Manager

Job Description Summary We are seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to join Cushman & Wakefield’s dynamic legal team in support of the enterprise-wide Contracting Centre of Excellence providing transactional legal support for various service lines including Procurement, Asset Services, and Global Occupier Services.

Job Description

This role reports to the Assistant General Counsel and leader of the C&W Contracting Centre of Excellence and is responsible for implementing and promoting contracting operational efficiencies across the enterprise and drafting, negotiating, and managing high volume of commercial contracts. The ideal candidate will have strong commercial contracting experience including with technology contracts and engagements, risk assessment skills, project management skills, and proven experience independently drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze, draft, negotiate and manage commercial contracts, including technology agreements, and related documents for the company’s business, to ensure contract terms align with business objectives, policies, laws and regulations.
• Identify and mitigate risks in various vendor agreements, agency agreements, engagement letters and other real estate and commercial contracts.
• Monitor legal, regulatory and internal policy changes, update attorneys and contract templates as needed to ensure compliance with laws, corporate directives, policies and procedures.
• Contribute to operational improvements and best practices for contract workflows, templates and efficient contract handling.
• Collaborate with team attorneys to share best practices, align and document negotiation and risk management strategies.
• Advise internal clients with respect to policies and contracts.
• Support attorneys with development and updating training materials; and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, law, real estate, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience independently negotiating and managing processes for complex commercial contracts.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts; experience negotiating technology contracts is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; must approach each task with innovative thinking, flexibility and drive.
• Innovative thinker with strong written and verbal communication skills with a willingness to initiate, drive and promote change management with respect to contracting processes and approach.
• Keen ability to multitask and successfully manage competing priorities.
• Expert managing contract lifecycle and related systems and in all aspects of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Strong AI fluency or willingness to become proficient to permit integration of AI into our daily work.

Location & Remote

LI - #Remote Cushman & Wakefield

Benefits

• Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work.

Compensation

The compensation for the position is: $ 89,250.00 - $105,000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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About Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for occupiers and investors with approximately 53,000 employees in over 350 offices and nearly 60 countries. In 2025, the firm reported revenue of $10.3 billion across its core service lines of services, Leasing, Capital markets, and Valuation and other. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture. For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com.