Sr Contract Specialist

Lockton Companies; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockton Companies is seeking a skilled Senior Contract Manager to oversee the full lifecycle of business agreements, including intake, drafting, review, negotiation, and execution. You will coordinate DocuSign workflows, maintain repositories, and produce key summaries for leadership across legal, finance, and operations.

The role emphasizes improving contract processes, template libraries, and governance, with collaboration across multiple stakeholders and teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in-house contract review/negotiation
• Experience with full contract lifecycle from intake to renewal
• Familiarity with CLM platforms (Onit) and e-signature tools
• Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, or related field

Responsibilities

• Manage full contract lifecycle for vendor, client, NDA, and other agreements.
• Coordinate contract execution through DocuSign and store properly.
• Prepare contract summaries, obligation trackers, and key-term summaries for stakeholders.
• Support negotiations by reviewing terms and identifying issues.
• Own and improve contract lifecycle processes and governance.
• Maintain contract resources including templates and libraries.
• Manage legal service requests and stakeholder communications.

Skills

Contract lifecycle management

DocuSign

Negotiation support

Stakeholder communication

Research and analysis

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, or related field

Tools

Onit CLM

Diligent

Job description

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.

• Manage the full contract lifecycle for vendor, client, NDA, and other business agreements, including intake, preparation, initial review, negotiation coordination, approval, and execution.
• Coordinate contract execution through DocuSign and ensure executed agreements are properly stored, coded, and routed to appropriate stakeholders.
• Prepare contract summaries, status reports, obligation trackers, and key-term summaries for legal, business, finance, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
• Support contract negotiations by reviewing proposed terms, identifying business and legal issues, escalating material risks, and recommending practical fallback positions consistent with approved playbooks and company policy.
• Own and improve contract lifecycle management processes, including intake, triage, template use, workflow design, metadata standards, repository hygiene, reporting, and process documentation.
• Maintain and enhance contract resources, including templates, playbooks, clause libraries, fallback positions, and related guidance materials.
• Manage legal service requests, including intake review, prioritization, routing, stakeholder communications, and response tracking in accordance with established service expectations.

Corporate Governance

• Assist with entity formations, dissolutions, internal restructurings, and intercompany transactions, including preparation, review, filing, and tracking of related documents and approvals.
• Prepare, organize, and maintain corporate governance materials, including resolutions, consents, bylaws, minutes, ownership records, and related stakeholder communications.
• Maintain and organize corporate records, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions by preparing documents, supporting due diligence, and organizing transaction files.
• Assist with all aspects of subsidiary governance, including administration of the company's legal entity management database and coordinating annual filings and other requirements with registered agents and outside counsel.
• Respond to requests for information, including "know your customer" requests, due diligence, and internal stakeholder requests.

General Legal Support

• Conduct contract, policy, and market research as needed to support legal review, negotiation strategy, process improvement, and business decision‑making.
• Support legal team and contract administration and perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, or a related field.
• Contract management certification or paralegal certificate preferred but not required.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience supporting or managing in‑house commercial contract review and negotiation processes
• Experience managing the full contract lifecycle, including intake, drafting, internal approvals, negotiation coordination, execution, renewal, amendment, termination, reporting, and repository management.
• Experience working with CLM platforms (such as Onit), entity management platforms (such as Diligent), electronic signature platforms (such as DocuSign), and CRMs preferred.
• Familiarity with HIPAA compliance is a plus.

Qualifications

• Ability to process highly confidential/sensitive data and maintain discretion.
• High level of professionalism and commitment to the highest ethical standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain contract issues clearly, identify key risks, and support practical business decisions.
• Must be detail‑oriented, highly motivated and exceptionally organized.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work independently while building effective relationships with legal teammates, business stakeholders, vendors, consultants, and outside counsel.
• Ability to manage multiple contract matters, competing deadlines, and changing business priorities with strong judgment and accountability.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone anequal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learnsfrom, celebrates and thrives because of ourbreadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long‑term success.

About Lockton

Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 13,100+ Associates doing business in over 155 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.

At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.

How We Will Support You

At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.

We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry‑leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.

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