Director, Contracts

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance with company premium assistance
• Life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage paid for by the company
• RRSP company match
• Paid vacation, sick and personal time
• Paid company holidays
• Paid Volunteer Time; giving back to our communities is important to us
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Employee Recognition Program – convert your recognition points into gift cards
• Employee Assistance Program – offers benefits to help you manage daily responsibilities
• Access to training opportunities to advance further in your career

At CLEAResult, the Director, Contracts is the enterprise owner of all Government & Regulated client contracts across North America, with end-to-end accountability from verbal award through contract execution. This role oversees a large, complex contract pipeline of 40–100 active contracts, with an aggregate total contract value ranging from $100M to $1B+. The Director ensures contracts are commercially sound, legally compliant, operationally executable, and delivered at speed.

A core mandate is to modernize and accelerate the contracting function through AI, automation, and advanced contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems, reducing cycle time while strengthening governance and risk controls.

• Own and manage a high-volume, high-value contract pipeline (~40–100 concurrent contracts) across North America.
• Maintain real-time visibility into pipeline health, deal status, bottlenecks, and execution readiness.
• Ensure seamless progression from verbal award → drafting → negotiation → approval → execution.
• Establish prioritization frameworks to balance speed, risk, revenue recognition, and operational capacity.

• Lead drafting and negotiation of agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, amendments, and renewals.
• Partner with stakeholders to shape pricing frameworks, delivery timelines, performance obligations, risk allocation, and liability structures.
• Navigate complex negotiations.
• Ensure contract language aligns with proposal assumptions, financial models, staffing and delivery plans, regulatory and funding requirements, and risk management.

• Identify, assess, and mitigate legal, compliance, and regulatory risk.
• Identify, assess and mitigate delivery and execution constraints.
• Establish governance frameworks for contract approvals, risk escalation, and deviation from standards.

• Lead transformation of the contracts function through AI and automation.
• Design and implement scalable systems for AI-assisted contract drafting, automated risk flagging, predictive cycle-time analysis, and obligation tracking.
• Own and advance Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms, workflows, and templates.
• Build standardized playbooks, modular templates, and approval paths to reduce turnaround time without increasing risk.
• Continuously evaluate and deploy emerging AI tools.

• Serve as a trusted partner to key stakeholders across the organization.
• Ensure alignment on contract terms, commercial expectations, delivery assumptions, and risk tolerance.
• Maintain strong external relationships with client legal, procurement, and contracting teams.

• Ensure contracts comply with federal, state, and local laws, regulatory requirements, public funding conditions, and internal policies.
• Maintain deep familiarity with government contracting environments, utilities, and publicly funded programs.
• Proactively adapt contract frameworks in response to regulatory shifts or funding changes.

• Lead and develop a high-performing contracts organization.
• Set clear expectations for accountability, responsiveness, quality, and consistency.
• Elevate the team from execution-focused administration to strategic advisory.
• Build bench strength, succession plans, and scalable team structures.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in contracts management, legal operations, or commercial negotiations.
• Proven ownership of large,…