Contracts Manager

Contracts Manager

A Big-4-style professional-services firm building its India contracts centre

Location: Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad — or Remote (India)

About the Company

A Big-4-style professional-services firm is building its India contracts centre and has partnered with Flexiple to hire a Contracts Manager. You will run the contracting engine behind client engagements, alliances, and vendor relationships for a firm that lives and dies by clean paperwork. Flexiple is a managed marketplace that helps global companies build high-performing teams and GCCs in India.

Role Overview

As a Contracts Manager, you will own the full contract lifecycle for client and vendor agreements - drafting, negotiating, and tracking them from intake to renewal - so engagement teams can move fast without legal risk.

Key Responsibilities

Contract Drafting & Negotiation

• Draft and redline client engagement letters, MSAs, SOWs, and NDAs
• Negotiate commercial terms with clients, alliance partners, and vendors
• Maintain playbooks and fallback positions for standard clauses

Lifecycle & Governance

• Track contracts end to end in the CLM system, from intake to renewal and close-out
• Flag non-standard terms and route them to legal counsel for sign-off
• Report contract status, turnaround times, and risk exposure to leadership

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 5 to 9 years managing commercial contracts, ideally in professional services or consulting
• Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills, with an eye for commercial risk
• Comfort managing a high volume of contracts across multiple stakeholders
• Clear written and spoken English and a reliable remote-work setup

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CLM platforms such as Icertis, Ironclad, or DocuSign CLM
• A law degree or paralegal background, though not practising as counsel
• Exposure to client engagement contracting in a consulting or audit firm

What We Offer

• A high-visibility contracts seat at a Big-4-style firm's India centre
• Remote-friendly, pan-India hiring with long-term placement
• Direct exposure to partners and engagement leadership
• One application considered for this and future matched roles

Hiring Process

HR Screening → Assignment → Leadership Round 1 → Leadership Round 2 → Culture Fit