Senior Contracts Manager

Senior Contracts Manager

We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Contracts Manager to oversee all aspects of our organizational contracts. The ideal candidate will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and executing a wide range of agreements, ensuring strict adherence to legal standards and company policies. This role requires exceptional analytical and communication skills to manage risk, optimize financial outcomes, and foster strong relationships with both internal stakeholders and external vendors/clients.

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Participates in the negotiations of highly complex agreements and large global customer contracts (with values often exceeding $100M) as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including representatives from Business Development and Sales, Finance, Legal and various Global Customer Units.
• Identifies stakeholders and ensures that all relevant interests are represented.
• Requires ability to evaluate and prioritize often-divergent interests.
• Makes decisions with respect to balancing the need to be customer-responsive with that of protecting the company's interests.
• Evaluates risks associated with contract terms and provides management with contractual risk analysis.
• Liaisons with CLS legal counsel and senior management.
• Interprets legal advice and provides advisory and educational support to all participants in the contract process.
• Acts as an advisor to the VP GM Meta account owner and provides guidance to more junior department members.
• Works independently and develops extremely complex agreements with little input from the department Director.

Knowledge/Skills/

Competencies:

• Excellent writing and communication skills, as well as significant experience and knowledge of legal concepts, contract development and negotiation practices.
• Ability to independently draft high complexity contractual documents is a key element of this position.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent negotiating skills, perception management skills and relationship management skills.
• Good HR skills as well as employee/team management skills and abilities

Physical Demands:

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment and remotely. Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Overnight travel may be required

Typical

Experience:

Eleven to Fourteen years of applicable experience

Typical

Education:

Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Salary Range: $,000 USD/year

Location:

This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

Company Overview:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, Health Tech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.