About this opportunity
Axelon lists this Contract Manager opportunity in boston, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Pay Rate: $50 per hour
Location: Boston or New York
Duration: 6 months. Potential of extension and conversion
Work Mode: Hybrid
Summary:
Draft, review, and negotiate third-party service agreements using company standard templates, policies, and approval paths.
Focus on statements of work for staff augmentation, managed services, renewals across the data and analytics portfolio, and contracting workstreams supporting new investment vehicles.
Responsibilities: Draft, review, and negotiate agreements: Master service agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs), service level agreements (SLAs), order forms, amendments, third-party information security agreements, and data privacy and processing agreements.
Advise company business owners: Translate contractual rights, obligations, and risk positions into plain terms for non-specialists.
Partner across the contracting path: Collaborate with Global Procurement, Legal, Third Party Risk Management, Information Security, and Data Privacy to ensure agreements move smoothly.
Resolve disputes and unclear terms: Investigate performance issues, service credit claims, scope disagreements, and invoicing discrepancies.
Maintain the contract record: Keep agreements, amendments, key dates, renewal triggers, termination rights, and spend commitments accurate and accessible.
Track consumption against contracted entitlements: Monitor actual usage against entitlements and recommend actions based on thresholds.
Support the renewal and negotiation calendar: Track expirations and auto-renewal dates, prepare negotiation positions, and brief vendor managers and business owners.
Requirements: Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in contracts, procurement, or legal, specifically including commercial contract terms and third-party service agreements.
Experience at an investment manager, fund administrator, or comparable investment organization.
Proven negotiation experience with third-party service providers.
Strong stakeholder management skills and comfort operating with business owners, legal counsel, procurement, and vendors simultaneously.
Excellent organizational skills and evidence of managing a portfolio of concurrent agreements against competing deadlines.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Working experience with contract lifecycle management platforms and contract repositories.
Ability to adapt as requirements shift, especially around data privacy, information security, and third-party risk expectations.
Preferred Skills: Familiarity with fund administration and accounting services, loan servicing, market and reference data licensing, order management and portfolio systems, or professional services and staff augmentation.
Familiarity with software licensing and subscription models.
Exposure to regulatory and third-party risk requirements relevant to financial services.
Experience contracting with offshore or nearshore service providers.
Worksite address
boston, MA, 02298, US
Who can apply
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