Senior Paralegal – Contracts Manager
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Senior paralegal managing commercial contracts for SCH Services, which provides centralized enterprise support across healthcare, consulting, and workforce brands. Overseeing legal operations, registrations, insurance, and contract systems.
Responsibilities:
- Review, draft, revise, and support the negotiation of client, vendor, and other commercial agreements
- Identify legal and business risks and ensure consistency with Company requirements
- Manage contract matters through completion, coordinating internal review and approvals, responding to stakeholder questions, tracking open items, and facilitating execution
- Oversee administration and effective use of the contract lifecycle management system, including records, reporting, and user support
- Provide day-to-day direction to legal operations staff responsible for contract administration
- Manage corporate registrations, renewals, related filings, and records
- Coordinate insurance applications, renewals, certificates of insurance, and communications with brokers, carriers, and business stakeholders
- Conduct legal research and support due diligence, acquisitions, real estate matters, and other legal or strategic projects
- Partner with business stakeholders and outside counsel to resolve legal and contracting matters efficiently
- Perform other duties assigned by the General Counsel
- Comply with and support Company policies, procedures, and legal and ethical standards
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree, associate degree in paralegal studies with paralegal certification, Juris Doctor (J.D.), or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience, preferably in an in-house corporate legal department, commercial contracting, corporate legal operations, or related legal or contracts function
- Experience as a corporate paralegal, contract negotiator, contract analyst, contracts manager, or similar role
- Demonstrated experience reviewing, drafting, revising, negotiating, and administering commercial contracts
- Experience administering or supporting a contract lifecycle management system and related contracting processes
- Leadership skills and ability to provide day-to-day direction to legal support or legal operations staff
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, identify and appropriately escalate material issues, and exercise ownership through completion with minimal supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication, editing, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate professionally with executives, business stakeholders, clients, vendors, outside counsel, insurers, and other external parties
- Strong technical aptitude and ability to use legal technology and business systems
- Adaptability, attention to detail, commitment to continuous process improvement, and ability to manage confidential and sensitive information
- Preferred: experience with contract negotiation and contract lifecycle management system administration
- Preferred: knowledge of corporate governance, entity registrations, and insurance processes
- Preferred: experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, or real estate matters
- Preferred: experience in healthcare, consulting, SaaS, or workforce solutions industries
Benefits:
- Competitive total compensation package
- Medical and dental coverage at no premium cost for employees
- 401(k) and profit-sharing retirement plans
- Flexible spending accounts
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Company-paid holidays
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Bereavement and pet leave
- Continuing education and professional accreditation sponsorship
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Mental health support program
- Additional perks
















