Senior Contract Manager

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $140k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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VEC

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

Construction • Consulting • B2B

VEC is a BIM and VDC construction technology consultancy that integrates Building Information Modeling (BIM), Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), and digital delivery workflows to improve project efficiency, prefabrication, coordination, and onsite quality control. VEC partners with general contractors, self-performing trade contractors, designers, and owners across the United States to deliver electrical, mechanical and plumbing, civil underground, and concrete BIM services, VDC coordination and management, and onsite QA/QC. The company reports 15+ years of experience, 350+ employees in six offices, roughly 250 BIM/virtual construction experts, and 600+ projects delivered nationwide.

📋 Description

• Build and lead VEC's commercial contracting function, owning agreements from intake and negotiation through execution and closeout. • Review, draft, and negotiate client, general contractor, subconsultant, and vendor agreements, amendments, NDAs, and data and security terms. • Negotiate directly with general contractor and client legal or contracts teams and resolve contractual terms. • Align subconsultant agreements with VEC's client obligations. • Negotiate indemnity, defense obligations, liability limits, insurance requirements, payment protections, intellectual property, and other contractual risks. • Provide leadership with recommendations on material exceptions, risks, and trade-offs. • Control approvals, final versions, signature sequencing, and execution records. • Ensure work begins under an executed agreement or approved exception. • Own prequalifications, vendor registrations, and compliance questionnaires. • Manage contractual obligations, notices, changes, renewals, disputes, and closeout. • Build contract templates and a usable contract playbook. • Train project teams on contract standards and escalation paths. • Coordinate the insurance broker and outside counsel and determine when specialist input is needed. • Own business insurance renewals, including applications, broker recommendations, officer approval, and policy records. • Report to the VP Administration & Finance.

🎯 Requirements

• Seven or more years of contract review and negotiation experience, including substantial recent experience in architecture, engineering, construction consulting, or construction technology services. • Direct responsibility for drafting redlines and negotiating professional-services agreements and proprietary GC subcontract forms with client legal or contracts teams. • Strong understanding of professional-services standard of care, indemnity and defense, liability limits, consequential damages, construction insurance, intellectual property, and payment protections. • Experience aligning subconsultant agreements with client obligations. • Experience building or improving contract processes and execution controls. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience. • Proficiency with Microsoft Word track changes and comparison tools. • Experience with contract lifecycle management or document management platforms, or comparable intake, approval, and records systems. • Proficiency with e-signature platforms such as DocuSign or Adobe Acrobat Sign. • Proficiency with prequalification and vendor registration platforms such as ISNetworld, Avetta, or client-specific portals. • Working proficiency with Excel or Smartsheet. • Sound independent judgment and ability to recognize when leadership or specialist advice is needed. • Ability to explain risk positions plainly to non-contract professionals. • Comfort working as a senior individual contributor without direct reports initially. • Willingness to train project teams. • Preferred: experience coordinating business insurance renewals; familiarity with AIA and ConsensusDocs forms; experience with prequalification platforms, data and security terms, or international service delivery; JD, paralegal training, or contract management certification.