Senior Contract Strategist

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Why join us:

• There is a reason we boast numerous awards like Great Place to Work Certified and Best Place to Work For Moms Dads LGBTQ and VETS (just to name a few). At Deluxe we know that great people make a great organization.

• We value our people so offer the typical benefits (401K PTO Medical Dental) PLUS: Flexible time off volunteer time off paid maternity/paternity leave tuition reimbursement pet bereavement and more!

• A culture that keeps people. 42% of our team has been here over 10 years. When we asked our team why we heard the people benefits family/home time diversity and team culture.

• Hybrid schedule allowing you flexibility to work from home/remote several days per week

Job Description:

The Senior Contract Strategist leads endtoend negotiation and drafting of complex highvalue customer and partner agreements across multiple Deluxe business segments including financial services and other regulated environments.

In this role you will:

• Serve as a primary contracting expert for sophisticated financial pricing and risk allocation terms (e.g. revenue share tiered pricing fee schedules credits and limitations of liability).

• Work cross functionally with Legal Finance Product Management Marketing Compliance Operations and Sales leadership to shape contracting strategy and deal structures aligned to Deluxes business objectives and risk appetite.

• Provide executive level recommendations on nonstandard positions precedent setting issues and trade-offs between revenue risk and customer experience.

• Own and continuously improve the contract strategy framework for assigned segments including standard templates playbooks fallback positions exception and escalation processes and deal governance for their assigned segment.

• Evaluate precedent and market trends to recommend changes that support longterm strategic objectives and protect Deluxes contractual and financial position.

• Enable the use and governance of AI enabled language tools and contract automation technologies to improve speed quality and consistency of complex contract drafting.

• Design and refine prompts clause libraries and review frameworks to help identify risk in sophisticated financial clauses regulatory commitments and data/AIrelated provisions and mentors others on best practices.

• Serve as a focal for Product Commercialization and Merger & Acquisition activities in designated segments including structuring and harmonizing customer and vendor contracts.

• Assess contractual implications of new offerings integrations and acquisitions and recommend structures to efficiently scale within Deluxes risk and profitability targets.

• Assist the RFP team with the contracting and risk components of the Request for Proposal (RFP/RFI) process for assigned segments.

• Identify nonstandard terms especially those impacting financial obligations data/AI use and regulatory requirements and coordinates internal vetting and approvals with Legal Compliance Finance InfoSec and other key stakeholders.

• Partner with Legal and Deluxe Vendor Management as needed to align customer and vendor contracting positions and ensure consistency with corporate policy.

• Proactively recommend enhancements to Deluxes standard forms clauses (including AI and financial clauses) and contract management processes to improve risk control efficiency and deal velocity.

Position may include other duties as determined by the company.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in legal or Business Studies.

• Minimum of at least 5 years experience in drafting redlining and negotiating contracts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree Juris Doctorate in Law (JD) or MBA preferred

• 7-10 years experience in drafting redlining and negotiating contracts.

• Financial Service industry experience a plus but not required.

• Strong written communications

• Strong attention to detail

• Strong work ethic.