Senior Contract Management Specialist – Ironclad CLM - Manager

About the role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Contract Management Specialist with more than 10 years of contract lifecycle management experience, including at least five years of hands-on experience with the Ironclad CLM platform. The successful candidate will oversee the complete contract lifecycle, ensure compliance, mitigate contractual risks, and optimize processes using Ironclad’s workflow, repository, AI, reporting, and integration capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, administration, and continuous optimization of contract lifecycle management processes within Ironclad CLM, with a focus on reducing cycle times, improving user adoption, and enabling self-service contracting.

• Partner with legal, procurement, sales, finance, and operations teams to gather business requirements and translate them into scalable workflows, launch forms, conditional logic, contract templates, clause libraries, approval routing, signer configurations, and handoffs.

• Configure and manage the Ironclad Dynamic Repository, including metadata, record types, Smart Import of legacy contracts, access controls, obligation tracking, renewals, and contract-performance monitoring.

• Design and maintain integrations with Salesforce, Workday, Coupa, NetSuite, DocuSign, Ironclad Signature, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, using Ironclad APIs and webhooks where required.

• Leverage Ironclad AI capabilities, including AI Assist, AI-powered redlining, playbooks, and clause extraction, and administer Ironclad Clickwrap to improve contract review, negotiation, and high-volume agreement execution.

• Serve as the Ironclad subject matter expert by providing user training and administrative support, maintaining compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements, mitigating contract risks, and developing reports and dashboards that measure trends, cycle times, obligations, and performance.

Work model:

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in Newark, NJ. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the posting date and may change based on the assigned project and evolving business or client requirements. We will always communicate role expectations clearly.

What you need to have to be considered:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Legal Studies, or a related field, with an advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred.

•  Minimum of 10 years of contract management experience, including drafting, negotiation, execution, compliance, renewals, and obligation management.

•  At least 5 years of hands-on Ironclad CLM experience, including implementation, workflow design, repository configuration, reporting, administration, and integrations.

•  Experience integrating CLM platforms with CRM, ERP, HRIS, and e-signature systems, with knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, and CLM migrations considered a plus.

•  Proven ability to lead cross-functional CLM initiatives, drive process improvements, analyze contract data and risk, and collaborate effectively with legal, procurement, sales, finance, operations, and technical stakeholders.

These will help you stand out:

• Ironclad Core Admin Certification

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until December 4, 2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $120,000 and $130,000, depending on the successful candidate’s experience and other qualifications.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits:

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

• Paid holidays and paid time off

• 401(k) plan and contributions

• Long-term and short-term disability coverage

• Paid parental leave

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer:

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the posting date. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.