Senior Manager, Contracts Lifecycle Management

The role

This person will lead and co-lead the initiation, execution, and delivery of technology projects for corporate legal department clients. They will focus on CLM readiness, technology planning, system selection, and implementation, including integrating generative AI processes.

What you will do

• Assess contracting processes and technology to provide guidance on solutions.
• Serve as lead project manager for implementation projects.
• Manage project schedules, staffing plans, budgets, scope, and resourcing.
• Facilitate workshops to gather and prioritize business and technical requirements.
• Advise clients on integrating existing technologies and designing solution frameworks.
• Oversee process mapping, data analysis, and configuration of solutions.
• Oversee system configuration and testing.
• Map data between source systems and new technology solutions.
• Define and orchestrate change management strategies.
• Develop training curriculum and lead end-user training.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in the legal or consulting industry.
• 8+ years of experience in legal technology assessments, requirements gathering, system design, configuration, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Proven experience implementing contracting tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of the AI contract technology landscape.
• 8+ years of experience in a customer facing role delivering projects and overseeing other resources.
• Four-year degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Science, Economics, Statistics, Accounting, Data & Analytics, or equivalent combination of experience and edu
• Knowledge of IT implementation methodologies including waterfall, agile and iterative.
• Ability to elicit requirements from requirements owners.
• Knowledge of IT Project management and corporate IT methodology frameworks.
• Knowledge of use cases for contract management and AI solutions.
• Knowledge of configuration of industry leading CLM and contract intelligence solutions.
• Knowledge of integration and migration requirements gathering and methodology.

Nice to have

• Experience with Agiloft, Ironclad, Malbek, Luminance, Ivo, and similar systems

About the company

Harbor is a provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Their globally integrated team of 900+ specialists works with law firms and corporations to provide essential resources and insights.