Contracts and Compliance Team Lead

Company Description

CapTech is an award-winning consulting firm that collaborates with clients to achieve what’s possible through the power of technology. At CapTech, we’re passionate about the work we do and the results we achieve for our clients. From the outset, our founders shared a collective passion to create a consultancy centered on strong relationships that would stand the test of time. Today we work alongside clients that include Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized enterprises, and government agencies, a list that spans across the country.

Job Description

CapTech is seeking an experienced professional to lead the Contracts and Compliance functions to support our growth-oriented business model. This professional will guide a high performing team of internal contract managers and external counsel to support their work with sophisticated CapTech clients, business partners, and vendors.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing oversight and direction to the team responsible for analyzing and negotiating complex consulting and IT services and licensing agreements with CapTech’s Fortune 100 clients.  Direct interaction with CapTech executives and clients expected.
• Establishing and leveraging collaborative relationships with internal clients in the CapTech sales, operations and executive teams to inform efficient and effective negotiations with CapTech clients.
• Implementing standards for contract risk tolerance in dynamic, evolving procurement environments.  Evaluating and ultimate approval of exceptions in CapTech standards.
• Developing creative solutions related to contract risk distribution and mitigation.
• Supporting the negotiation of marketing agreements, statements of work, non-disclosure agreements, supply agreements, license agreements, SaaS agreements, and general terms and conditions in a variety of other commercial contracts.
• Advising CapTech business teams on appropriate risk mitigated contract terms and conditions.
• Providing oversight and direction to the team responsible for managing clients’ supplier qualification diligence requests and integrating CapTech’s compliance strategies with client contracting standards and fulfillment.
• Setting compliance and governance frameworks that align with a full enterprise view of accepted contract risk.
• Supporting CapTech business teams with interpreting and fulfilling contractual obligations to clients in conjunction with their establishment and enforcement of CapTech operational risk management strategies.  

The successful candidate will be:

• An exceptional people leader with a proven track record of building high performing and engaged teams.
• A talented relationship builder with a collaboration mindset.  Demonstrated success establishing themselves as a trusted advisor among stakeholders.
• A master communicator and experienced point person in Executive and Client facing forums.
• An accomplished negotiator with a robust track record of successful, risk-mitigated business outcomes with large, sophisticated procurement organizations.
• A creative problem solver, highly skilled at working through challenging contract terms and conditions.
• Deeply experienced in developing contract and contract compliance monitoring frameworks. 
• An exceptional coach and advocate who can raise the level of contract risk awareness and acumen across all levels in the organization.

Qualifications

• An expert professional with 10 or more years of commercial contracting, compliance, or procurement experience in corporate or law firm environments.
• A JD strongly preferred.
• Information Technology contracting, services or product experience is strongly preferred.
• Consulting experience is a plus.

Additional Information

We provide challenging and impactful opportunities in our client work and internal teams, while keeping individual interests in mind. We want everyone at CapTech to be able to envision a lifelong career here, which is why we offer a variety of career paths based on your skills and passions. As a CapTecher, you will experience exciting and rewarding roles that help you grow and make a difference, while having fun along the way.  

At CapTech we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to:  

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus opportunities  
• Three comprehensive Medical Plan options (PPO and HDHP), as well as Dental and Vision coverage  
• Company paid basic Life and AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance  
• Matching 401(k)  
• Cell Phone stipend 
• Competitive Paid Time Off  
• Paid Birth and Family Bonding Leave  
• Adoption Assistance  
• Training and Certification opportunities eligible for expense reimburse