Contracts & Compliance Manager

Location

Maryland

Posted

4 days ago

Salary

$125K - $160K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Contracts & Compliance Manager

Private Label Staff

• Provide practical and business-focused contract and compliance guidance to internal stakeholders while protecting the company and supporting growth • Support internal audits, compliance reviews, reporting obligations, and documentation requests across both Federal and commercial operations • Partner with leadership, sales, finance, operations, and delivery teams to ensure contracts and compliance requirements support business growth and operational success • Create and maintain contract trackers, renewal calendars, compliance matrices, reporting schedules, and risk summaries to provide leadership visibility into contract and compliance status • Rebuild and organize the company’s contract and compliance repository, ensuring files, agreements, renewals, reporting documentation, and compliance records are accurate, organized, maintained, and accessible • Review, draft, redline, negotiate, organize, and manage Federal and commercial contracts and related documents including NDAs, teaming agreements, subcontractor agreements, vendor agreements, reseller agreements, customer agreements, purchase orders, task orders, amendments, SOWs, and managed services agreements

Job Requirements

  • Experience managing both Federal and commercial contracts, compliance processes, and contract administration
  • Bachelor’s degree and/or 5+ years of experience in contracts management, compliance management, contract administration, or a related field
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across leadership, finance, operations, vendors, partners, and customers
  • Highly organized self-starter with strong accountability, process improvement, documentation management, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to rebuild, organize, and scale contract and compliance processes within a growing environment
  • Experience supporting Federal procurement vehicles such as GSA Schedules, GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs, task orders, or similar public sector procurement vehicles preferred
  • Strong understanding of compliance requirements, contract lifecycle management, reporting obligations, renewals, and operational risk
  • Experience reviewing, drafting, redlining, negotiating, and managing customer agreements, vendor agreements, subcontractor agreements, NDAs, SOWs, reseller agreements, and service agreements

Benefits

  • Work Authorization / Security Clearance Requirements
  • Must be able to work in an office environment
  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

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