Senior Manager, Contract Management

• Provides full life-cycle contract management for assigned contracts, including contract creation, review, approval, execution, performance monitoring, and renewal/termination
• Handles a high volume of complex contract negotiations, leveraging best practices while maintaining a thorough knowledge of all aspects of contracts
• Drives negotiating strategy for assigned contracts to achieve best-in-class commercial and legal terms, optimize savings, and mitigate risks
• Accountable for contract interpretation, identification of risk, engagement of SMEs, internal escalations (when appropriate), and ensuring that contracts incorporate requisite legal and business terms
• Proactively drives collaboration and engagement with cross-functional teams including, Finance, Legal, Risk Management, and Business Discipline Partners
• Facilitates timely problem resolution of contractual issues to minimize the impact of service disruptions on the organization
• Drives commercial outcomes by proactively leveraging data and analytics to track and manage workflow
• Responsible for ensuring that executed contracts comply with both external laws/regulations and internal company standards and policies, including, those related to MIP-34
• Utilizes established controls to ensure suppliers adhere to negotiated terms and provisions
• educate stakeholders on contractual levers aimed at reducing cost and minimizing risk
• Monitor contract performance by supplier, including adherence to Service Levels and KPIs
• negotiate and implement improvements to enhance performance
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams across the enterprise and within Global Procurement to achieve shared goals

• BA/BS
• 5-7 years of contract management experience
• Deep technical knowledge of contract and risk management in the hospitality, lodging or adjacent sectors
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment

Master’s in Business Administration or Juris Doctor