Contracts Manager, Corporate Contracts (Remote)

Location: 

Montréal, QC, CA Toronto, ON, CA Calgary, AB, CA Vancouver, BC, CA

Req ID:  40878
Jobs by Category:  Operations
Job Function:  Legal
Status:  Full Time
Schedule:  Regular

Description

 

Create better business outcomes with your analytical acumen and creativity.

 

Our team and what we’ll accomplish together

 

Join our dynamic team of lawyers and contracts specialists overseeing custom agreements with business, enterprise, and public sector customers. 

 

As Contracts Manager, you will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to draft, negotiate, and advise on corporate contracts, ensuring compliance and minimizing risk. Your role involves influencing outcomes, driving deals to closure, and communicating contract terms effectively.

 

What you’ll do

 

  • Draft and review custom corporate agreements under tight timelines
  • Cooperate with internal stakeholders with respect to commercial and legal aspects of a deal
  • Advise on compliance, risk, strategy and positioning of contractual terms to assist internal teams in decision-making
  • Review redlines, provide recommendations, and negotiate with corporate customers with a view of minimizing risk to TELUS
  • Collaborate with Product and Legal teams to draft and review terms and conditions for new product offerings
  • Ensure consistent application of contracts, as well as compliance with regulatory and internal contractual requirements
  • Develop legal contractual responses for Request for Proposals (RFPs)
  • Recommend changes to standard contract templates and terms based on regulatory and technological landscape, business practices, as well as with a view of assuring revenue to TELUS
  • Recommend and implement contract management best practices
  • Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on contractual matters
  • Provide training to internal teams to ensure compliance, and an understanding of contractual issues and processes

 

 

Qualifications

 

What you bring

 

  • Law degree (LLB or JD) from an accredited university
  • At least 2 years of experience in commercial contract drafting and negotiation, especially with service agreements, software licensing, SaaS, and/or professional service agreements
  • Strong understanding of contract and commercial law
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Excellent negotiation, business judgment, and influence skills
  • Strong business and financial acumen. Ability to apply strategic judgment based on financial and risk analysis
  • Proven ability to build relationships and to maintain effective partnerships with stakeholders, including senior leaders
  • Thrives in a fast paced dynamic environment, with the ability to manage a number of deliverables under tight timelines and to adapt to change

 

Great-to-haves

 

  • Proficient (written and spoken) in both English and in French in order to work in a professional work environment
  • Knowledge of technology contracts, regulatory and privacy landscape
  • An interest in Artificial Intelligence and familiarity with contract management tools

 

#LI-REMOTE

 

 

Salary Range:  $72,000-$108,000
Performance Bonus or Sales Incentive Plan:  12%

Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience. In addition, TELUS offers rewarding benefits, which may vary per job function, such as:

  • Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, and flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family
  • Flexibility to work in-office, virtually or a combination of both
  • Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs
  • Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve
  • Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills
  • And much more …

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world. 

You’ll find our engaging, high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you’re helping us make the future friendly.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.

 

 

 

 

Operations

We’re the ones that design, build, repair and maintain the billions of dollars’ worth of the infrastructure that keeps more than 15.2 million Canadians connected.

We are honoured to be recognized

1.4M
Days volunteered in our communities.

70%
Team members that work at home or are mobile.

15.2
Million customers that TELUS is serving across Canada.

Accessibility

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.