Who We Need
To support Netrality’s continued growth, we seek a Contracts Manager who will be responsible for the contractual lifecycle. The candidate must have experience drafting, negotiating, and redlining contract documents, and analyzing contractual terms and pricing. The role requires the ability to investigate and follow-through on contract issues and build relationships across business units, communicate effectively, and manage a complex workload with competing priorities. The ideal candidate will be familiar with evaluating audit documents and responding to compliance requests.
Netrality is a close-knit team of A-players. This position allows opportunity for the right person to establish efficiencies and best practice enterprise-wide, with the potential for growth of the within the function over time.
Description of Responsibilities
- Support a portfolio of contracts throughout the lifecycle, including renewals, amendments and terminations
- Follow contractual processes as documented and recommend process improvements
- Draft, redline and negotiate license agreements, service orders, and other contractual documents
- Prepare contract renewal analyses that include contractual terms, resolving conflicting information, and evaluating invoices and audits.
- Collaborate with various business units to respond to audit and compliance requests
- Review and draft responses to RFP requests
- Provide ad-hoc analytical support and complete special projects as requested
- Communicate regularly with management and various business units
- Thrive in a face-paced environment, managing competing priorities
- Be a team player with the ability to work and communicate across a variety of business units and management levels
- Possess a zeal for continuous learning and the ability to build on foundational skills to progress into future roles
Position Requirements and Desired Skills
- Bachelor’s degree required with focus in real estate, business, or finance preferred
- Juris Doctor preferred or 3+years in a similar role
- Contract negotiation experience, preferably with experience in the data center, telecommunications, or technology industries
- Must be extremely detail-oriented and a problem solver, always working towards meaningful solutions
- Previous experience collaborating in a cross functional manner with different teams towards a common project goal
- Contract drafting and redlining experience with specific focus on license agreements, leases, vendor agreements, and non-disclosure agreements
- Contract analysis and interpretation, experience abstracting contractual rights and obligations, and synthesizing contractual requirements for non-legal team members and executive leadership
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem solving and organizational skills
- Excellent communicator, confidently articulating complex analysis and solutions both orally and written
- Experience working independently as well as collaboratively; effectively managing competing priorities while meeting hard deadlines in a fast-paced working environment
- Proficient with Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat; experience with Salesforce preferred
- Self-motivated, initiative taker with a can-do attitude
- Highest ethical and professional conduct and integrity
- Adhere to all guidelines and expectations set forth in company’s corporate handbook
Who We Are
Netrality Data Centers is a growing private-equity backed owner-operator of strategic interconnection properties. With eighteen premier data centers located in six metropolitan markets, Netrality continues to acquire strategic network interconnection data centers and develop Meet Me Rooms (MMRs) and wholesale data center space within those properties to offer the highest quality and most robust direct network interconnections in the market.
Netrality offers comprehensive and competitive benefits to our employees, notably:
- Multiple offerings for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance
- Paid parental leave, fertility support, 401k matching
- Employee discount services through our partners savings platform
- $1:$1 company match for all eligible charitable gifts