​Cohesity’s Legal Department is seeking a driven, ambitious Contract Manager to join our growing commercial team.

The role involves responsibility for the management and administration of contracts, and also offers a genuine opportunity to expand areas of responsibility within a dynamic and fast-growing company.

The role will involve:

• Hands-on experience with a fast-paced learning curve, in line with Cohesity’s culture and values;
• Being embedded with a team of lawyers handling complex commercial, technology and other contracts/documents;
• Opportunities to collaborate and build relationships with internal customers and key stakeholders in cross-function processes
• Autonomy and responsibility for improving processes/operations, including contract templates/other internal forms, negotiation playbooks and other project work; and
• Other activities to support our rapidly growing and evolving go-to-market and channel functions.

How You'll Spend Your Time Here

• Innovate, optimize and evolve Cohesity forms, templates and playbooks to drive contract velocity and standards.
• Manage and prioritize commercial legal requests and processes.
• Autonomously process nonstandard requests, including customer letters, NDAs, and other general legal requests.
• Collaborate with other Contract Managers to drive efficiency and process within the role.
• Summarize and communicate legal/business concepts to non-Legal teams.
• Collaborate with attorneys to structure, negotiate, and close complex transactions.
• Help with company enablement of, and produce data insights from our new contract management platform.
• Manage and solve complex process breakdowns.
• Create first drafts of legal terms for attorney review.
• Project manage key initiatives.
• Coordinate with internal customers using discretion and prioritization to escalate as necessary.
• Create presentations and reports for senior management.
• Leverage and recommend improvements to key metrics and developments. Help define input and output metrics to drive new findings.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a recognized university.
• 3 + years experience in Contract Management or a similar role.
• Reporting and data analytics experience.
• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple work streams and manage time efficiently.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Hands-on/Quick learner who brings flexibility, curiosity, and initiative to their role.

Key Attributes:

The successful candidate will:

• Be exceptionally smart, creative, and hard-working.
• Be organized, humble, and eager to learn.
• Be adept at learning new tools and technologies quickly.
• Be an excellent oral, written and interpersonal communicator.
• Have exceptional attention to detail.
• Have genuine interest in a long-term career as a legal/contract specialist.
• Be flexible to support diverse activities across time zones.
• Be pragmatic, but with exceptional judgment and integrity.
• Be a self-starter who comes up with ideas and is not afraid to innovate.
• Be a critical thinker and problem solver willing to roll up sleeves.
• Have a team-first attitude.

We expect the successful candidate to have some but not all required skills on day one; aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn are more meaningful than existing skills.