Commercial Contracts Manager; Global

Commercial Contracts Manager (Global)

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

It's all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet's technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you'll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you'll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

The Commercial Contracts Manager (Global) will provide Videojet Technologies with strategic and operational contract support for its commercial activities. While this role will primarily focus on the foregoing activities in North America, support in other regions will also be required. This role serves as a trusted legal partner to Sales, Service, Procurement, Product, and Technology teams, managing a high volume of commercial contracts while also leading more complex, technology-driven and innovation-focused transactions.

The ideal candidate brings strong independent judgment, deep experience with customer and supplier paper, and the ability to structure and negotiate sophisticated commercial, SaaS, technology, and development agreements with minimal supervision.

Location:

Wood Dale, IL (Hybrid Preferred) | U.S. Remote Considered

While this role is ideally based in Wood Dale, IL, we are open to exceptional candidates located anywhere in the United States. Remote candidates should be available to travel to Wood Dale approximately 10–20% of the time for key meetings, team collaboration, and business needs.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Review, draft, negotiate, and manage a broad range of commercial agreements, including:
• Customer terms & conditions
• Master purchase and supply agreements
• Service and maintenance agreements
• SaaS and software licensing agreements
• NDAs and data protection agreements
• Serve as the primary contracts resource for Videojet's North America business.
• Provide additional contract support for agreements outside of North America, collaborating with internal stakeholders and legal colleagues as appropriate.
• Independently negotiate routine and moderately complex agreements, escalating only highly complex or novel issues to Legal leadership or company attorneys.
• Work extensively from customer and supplier paper, applying strong issue-spotting, risk assessment, and practical problem-solving skills.

Technology, SaaS, and Digital Business Support

• Bring deep expertise in technology and SaaS contracting to support expanding digital, connected, and AI-enabled business models.
• Identify and manage risks related to data usage, cybersecurity, IP ownership, licensing, liability allocation, and regulatory considerations in technology-driven agreements.
• Partner with internal technology, product, and digital teams to ensure contracts align with evolving business strategies and risk tolerances.

Product Innovation & Strategic Partnerships

• Support product innovation initiatives by structuring and negotiating complex development, co-development, and supply agreements with third-party partners.
• Ensure appropriate protection of intellectual property, confidentiality, and commercial interests in R&D and innovation-focused collaborations.
• Advise cross-functional teams on contractual frameworks that enable innovation while managing legal and commercial risk.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Management

• Work closely with Sales, Service, Finance, Customer Service, Procurement, Product, and Technology teams to facilitate timely contract review and execution.
• Participate in cross-functional reviews of vendor questionnaires, RFQs, codes of conduct, certificates of insurance, and other legal documentation.
• Identify and lead continuous improvement efforts for commercial contracts operations including, without limitation, with respect to KPIs and the Legal Department's contract lifecycle management (CLM) system.
• Own CLM reporting and interpretation of contract data and implementation of countermeasures when unfavorable trends are identified.
• Identify and lead the development and improvement of contracting processes, playbooks, and templates to support efficiency and scalability.

Critical Success Factors

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume contracting environment while maintaining accuracy and sound judgment.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and the ability to…