Commercial Contract Specialist
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Key details
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Work style
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5–8 yrs
- Function
- Legal & Compliance
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 2d ago
Skills
About the role
Job Summary
As the Commercial Contracts Specialist, you will serve as the primary commercial resource for Enable's sales team and the company's front line for legal intake and triage. You will draft, review, redline, and negotiate customer and vendor agreements to keep deals moving while managing commercial and contractual risk, and you will own the intake and triage of legal matters across the business — determining what can be handled internally versus what requires outside support, and managing the panel of outside counsel and advisors engaged to support the company.
This role combines hands-on commercial contract work with legal operations responsibility, and is well suited to someone who is a strong, practical negotiator and can move quickly between contract detail and broader legal-operations judgment calls.
Duties and Responsibilities - Commercial Contracts
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Draft, review, redline, and negotiate customer agreements and, as needed, vendor agreements in collaboration with relevant business leader) negotiation of vendors as needed. This could include subscriptions, properties, utilities, advisors, agencies, etc.
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Own the company Non-Disclosure-Agreement letters and wording.
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Serve as the primary commercial resource for the sales team — for review of contractual terms and conditions and providing feedback on how they compare to terms reviewed for similar situations and what recommendations might improve Enable’s overall position in a contractual negotiation.
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Manage contract risk across the customer and vendor contract portfolio.
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Ensure that existing vendor agreements are monitored and proactively managed ensuring they are renewed in an orderly and considered fashion with a focus on maximising value for Enable.
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Identify areas for improvement and continually drive performance and business results across vendor portfolio.
Duties and Responsibilities - Legal Operations
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Own intake and triage of legal matters for the company, determining what can be handled internally and what requires outside support.
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Select and engage outside firms and individual attorneys for matters requiring outside support.
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Manage the panel of external counsel, IP counsel, and insurance brokers.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
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Experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating commercial agreements (customer and/or vendor); formal legal training is not required.
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Strong understanding of commercial terms and conditions, commercial contracts.
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Strong negotiation and communication skills, with the ability to act as a trusted commercial partner to a sales organization.
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Able to influence others and build effective relationships with the business and external stakeholders.
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Sound judgment for triaging legal and contractual risk, including knowing when a matter needs outside counsel.
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Comfortable managing relationships with outside law firms, individual attorneys, and other external advisors.
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Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a high volume of contracts and matters concurrently.
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Ability to explain contractual and legal concepts clearly to non-legal stakeholders.
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Reliable, accurate, and able to work independently with a continuous-improvement mindset.
Required Education and Experience
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5+ years' experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating commercial agreements.
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Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience gained through a contracts, procurement, or legal-support career path; formal legal qualification is not required.
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Demonstrated ownership of customer-side agreements end to end, including NDAs, order forms, mas
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