Remote Commercial Contracts Manager

Summary

Join our team as a Commercial Contracts Manager in Manchester/London, hybrid. This role involves leading and supporting the winning and delivery of profitable business, managing contractual relationships with clients and suppliers, and ensuring compliance with contracting policies.

Requirements

• Proven experience within a commercial and/or contract-oriented role
• Working knowledge of contracts and standard contracting terms for professional services, creative and IT agency services at a multinational-size level
• Sufficient legal expertise to deal with the most common topics and to liaise with the global legal team efficiently (Bachelor in UK contracts law minimum)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Well-organized, able to multitask, flexible, and available to work under tight deadlines
• Strong negotiation skills that strike the balance between getting the deal signed with the client being happy, while protecting the company's interests

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with all contracting policies, processes, and procedures
• Support the timely submission of bids and proposals, ensuring commercial/legal integrity for responding to the commercial aspects, including client terms and conditions and pricing
• Identify commercial risks, develop and implement effective mitigation strategies and actions, and report the risk and progress with mitigation strategies internally
• Lead negotiations with clients and suppliers concerning commercially advantageous terms and conditions, prices, and payment plans
• Draft and review agreements, including but not limited to NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs, with a commercial eye while ensuring compliance
• Effectively manage contracts daily, including client liaison and customer client management on contractual matters and contract renewals
• Develop and negotiate flow-down terms and conditions to suppliers, producers, influencers, and other third parties
• Resolve disputes and claims, ensuring the best outcome for the company
• Advise sales and operations teams on all commercial contracting aspects and IP-related topics for creative assignments
• Provide advice regarding contractual obligations, liabilities, and rights
• Conduct contract reviews in conjunction with the global legal team
• Maintain applicable commercial inputs into the document management systems, including the registration of all contracts in our CRM

Benefits

• An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies
• Hybrid working: you have the choice to work from our office or remotely, and we have core working hours where you can choose your start and finish times to suit you
• Pension
• Free private healthcare
• Mental health support
• And company sick pay scheme
• 25 days paid holiday with the opportunity to buy extra days
• Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Friday
• We celebrate successes by rewarding teams when big projects go live and honouring the year’s top achievements at our annual awards ceremony