Lifecycle Manager

Contract Lifecycle Manager

At Flynn Group, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees work from the office four days per week, leaving Fridays to work from home. This setup cultivates casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together four days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Our Vision for This Role

The Contract Lifecycle Manager owns and continuously improves the end-to-end lifecycle of supplier and commercial agreements, from intake and drafting through review, negotiation, execution, administration, renewal, and termination. This role partners with Procurement, Legal, Operations, Finance, Accounts Payable, and other key business functions to ensure agreements are accurately documented, commercially sound, operationally practical, and aligned with organizational requirements.

A central focus of the position is reading, interpreting, and editing contract terms. The Contract Lifecycle Manager will review supplier paper and company templates, identify non-standard or unfavorable language, prepare clear redlines and business recommendations, and coordinate appropriate escalation to Legal or functional leaders. This role does not replace legal counsel and is expected to recognize when specialized legal review is required.

Role Impact

Build a disciplined contracting process that improves visibility, strengthens commercial outcomes, reduces avoidable risk, and helps the business act on key obligations before deadlines are missed.

What We Will Accomplish Together

Contract Review, Drafting & Negotiation Support

• Review, interpret, and edit commercial contract terms using company templates, playbooks, approved clauses, and established escalation protocols.
• Prepare and manage redlines, compare proposed language against preferred positions, and clearly summarize material changes, business impacts, open issues, and recommended next steps.
• Review key provisions including scope, pricing, payment, term and renewal, termination, service levels, warranties, confidentiality, data privacy and security, intellectual property, insurance, indemnification, limitation of liability, dispute resolution, assignment, audit rights, and compliance obligations.
• Identify non-standard, ambiguous, inconsistent, or commercially unfavorable language and coordinate resolution with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Draft and revise agreements, amendments, statements of work, exhibits, schedules, and related documents within approved authority and templates.
• Partner with Legal on complex, high-risk, regulated, or non-standard terms, ensuring legal guidance is incorporated accurately into the final agreement.
• Support supplier negotiations by developing issue lists, fallback positions, and practical alternatives that protect the organization while enabling business objectives.

End-to-End Contract Lifecycle Management

• Manage agreements from intake, drafting, review, negotiation, approval, and signature through implementation, administration, amendment, renewal, and termination.
• Load and maintain new and existing agreements in the Source to Pay platform, ensuring executed documents, versions, supporting records, and approvals are complete and accessible.
• Maintain accurate contract metadata to support spend visibility, reporting, searchability, ownership, and compliance.
• Track key provisions, obligations, renewal dates, notice periods, price adjustments, service levels, termination rights, and other milestones; notify accountable stakeholders with sufficient time to act.
• Coordinate contract execution and ensure required approvals and signatures are obtained before products or services begin, as appropriate.
• Support contract terminations, site closures, supplier disputes, due diligence, and acquisition integration activities.
• Assist management and business owners with contract adherence, obligation tracking, and resolution of identified gaps.

CLM Governance, Process & Systems

• Administer and improve contract-related functionality within Coupa and connected Source to Pay processes.
• Maintain contract templates, clause libraries, guidance, forms, workflows, and standard operating procedures in partnership with Legal and Procurement leadership.
• Develop reporting and dashboards for contract status, cycle time, renewals, expirations, obligations, exceptions, and data quality.
• Identify process bottlenecks and recommend scalable improvements that strengthen controls and improve the stakeholder experience.
• Promote consistent intake, review, approval, execution, and record-retention practices across the enterprise.
• Provide guidance and training to users on contract intake, business terms, redlining practices, CLM tools, and escalation requirements.

Sourcing & Supplier Enablement

• Prepare and facilitate sourcing events in the Source to Pay platform, with emphasis on ensuring sourcing outcomes translate…