Contract Manager, Contract Management

Contract Manager

Location: Denver CO Dallas TX Austin TX Charlotte NC Ashburn VA Boston MA New York NY Clifton NJ San Francisco CA

Your Role

Digital Realty is seeking a Contract Manager to support contract management activities across North America. Reporting to the Contract Management NAM Leader this role is part of the global Contract Management team within the Legal Risk Sustainability and Compliance organization. The Contract Manager will lead and oversee the end-to-end contract lifecycle drive operational excellence ensure compliance with legal and corporate policies and partner closely with Legal Sales Finance Operations and other stakeholders to support efficient deal execution. This role also plays a key role in process optimization contract governance knowledge management reporting and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system enhancements.

What Youll Do

• Lead the review execution administration and management of commercial agreements including MSAs Service Orders amendments novations and other routine agreements.
• Ensure contracts comply with company policies legal requirements risk tolerance standards and corporate governance expectations.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex or high-risk contractual matters and identify risks while recommending mitigation strategies.
• Maintain accurate contract records documentation data integrity and confidentiality of sensitive business information.
• Support contract audits contractual obligation tracking reporting requirements and compliance initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement of contract management processes workflows controls automation efforts and best practices.
• Generate dashboards metrics and reports that provide contract insights and support business decision-making.
• Act as the primary resource for contract-related and CLM-related questions including template selection contract hierarchy system data validation and access management.
• Collaborate with Legal Sales Finance and Operations teams to support deal structuring contract interpretation and timely execution.
• Support strategic initiatives involving CLM optimization AI-driven contract data enhancement process transformation scalability efforts and team onboarding and training activities.

What Youll Need

• Bachelors degree in Business Legal Studies or a related field.
• 8 years of experience in contract management legal operations contract administration or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of contract law principles commercial agreements and contract lifecycle management practices.
• Experience managing high-volume workloads in fast-paced deadline-driven environments.
• Excellent communication collaboration stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Experience identifying contractual risks and developing practical risk mitigation strategies.
• Proficiency with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms preferably Conga.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams and partnering with Legal Sales Finance and Operations stakeholders.
• Experience with contract negotiation in-house legal team collaboration or global/multi-regional organizations is preferred.
• Advanced degree (JD MBA or equivalent) and/or data center industry experience is a plus.

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.

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A Bit About Our Team

Legal

Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts were involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Training and Development

Join our team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully right away with clear career pathways and continuous training to fuel your long-term growth. From onboarding to specialized development we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact.

Health and Safety

Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital Realty; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing data arent just idealstheyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people our partners and our customers.

We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.

Compensation Range

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role level and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills experience and relevant education and/or training. Moreover an employees total compensation package varies by role and may include salary cash bonus or commissions and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation Range: $120000 - $150000 annually

This compensation range represents the Companys good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role benefits include medical dental vision life and AD&D insurance 401(k) match disability benefits wellness and education benefits employee stock purchase plan paid time off holidays and more.