Senior Contracts & Legal Operations Manager | Ironclad | Hybrid | Reston, VA

About Ellucian

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future.

These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future.

These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Ellucian has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Contract and Legal Operations Manager to join its Legal team in its Reston, VA headquarters. We are seeking a business-minded and self-motivated professional to provide support for a wide range of contracts. You will be responsible for the preparation and review of complex customer agreements and serve as a subject matter expert offering consistent support to the Sales, Deal Desk and Order Management organizations.

If you’re a strong leader who understands technology and enjoys partnering with different areas of the business to get deals done, this could be a perfect fit!

• Lead the implementation and deployment of Ironclad as the company’s contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, serving as a key Legal stakeholder and partnering cross-functionally with IT, Sales, Deal Desk, Order Management and other business teams.
• Own and drive the design and configuration of Ironclad workflows, including contract intake, template generation, review and negotiation, approval routing, signature, contract storage and post-execution processes.
• Translate Legal and business requirements into scalable Ironclad workflows, templates, clause libraries, approval rules and other system configurations that support efficient and consistent contracting practices.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders on implementation planning, requirements gathering, data and contract migration, system integrations, user acceptance testing, deployment and issue resolution.
• Develop and execute an Ironclad adoption and change-management strategy, including stakeholder communications, user training, documentation and ongoing support for Legal and business users.
• Serve as a Legal business owner and subject matter expert for Ironclad following implementation, establishing governance and continuously evaluating and optimizing workflows, configurations and processes as business needs evolve.
• Leverage Ironclad data, reporting and analytics to measure contract cycle times, identify bottlenecks, monitor adoption and compliance, and recommend process improvements.
• Identify opportunities to…