Manager, Contracting (Procurement)

Location: Hybrid; three days per week in office at the Philadelphia or Cedar Rapids hub locations, United States. Relocation assistance is not provided.

Salary: $108,000–$143,000 annually, plus potential annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a financial services company providing insurance, retirement, investment, employee benefits, and related financial solutions as part of Aegon.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop contracting professionals while setting ownership, service expectations, quality standards, training, feedback, and escalation paths.
• Manage a centralized contracting queue across internal and outsourced resources, prioritizing matters by contract type, complexity, risk, capacity, and deadlines.
• Oversee contracting from intake through negotiation, reviews, approvals, signature, contract records, and coordinated requisition, purchase order, and contract-term completion.
• Direct complex and nonstandard agreements across technology and data, professional services, outsourcing, external workforce, market data, amendments, and renewals.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Legal, risk, privacy, information security, compliance, Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders on reviews, approvals, exceptions, and risk acceptance.
• Maintain governance, templates, playbooks, procedures, negotiation guidance, and CLM reporting while improving processes, automation, analytics, and responsible AI adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 7+ years of experience drafting and negotiating commercial supplier agreements and managing contracting activity across varied complexity levels.
• Experience explaining commercial trade-offs, recommending workable solutions, and leading complex negotiations.
• Experience leading and developing contracting or comparable professional-services teams, including prioritization, workload management, quality assurance, and performance coaching.
• Experience managing a high-volume portfolio of concurrent matters while meeting deadlines, maintaining controls, and communicating clearly.
• Ability to work with Procurement, Legal, risk and control functions, Finance, and business stakeholders, with sound judgment about decision rights and escalation.
• Experience improving contracting operations through playbooks, templates, training, process discipline, metrics, and CLM or comparable workflow technology.
• Strong written communication, negotiation, analytical judgment, and ability to provide concise, fact-based recommendations to leaders.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without immigration sponsorship or employer-of-record immigration support.

Nice to have

• Juris Doctor, MBA, or other relevant advanced education.
• Experience leading a centralized contracting service or working with embedded outsourced or BPO contracting capacity.
• Experience in insurance, financial services, a public company, or another regulated environment.
• Experience with procurement-to-pay handoffs, including requisitions, purchase orders, and contract-term setup.
• Experience implementing or improving CLM, automation, analytics, or responsible AI in contracting.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a collaborative environment focused on accountability, inclusion, and work-life balance.
• Benefits may include competitive pay, annual bonus eligibility, pension plan, 401(k) match, employee stock purchase plan, insurance, tuition reimbursement, and career development.
• Paid time off starts at 160 hours annually in the first year, with ten paid holidays per year.
• Additional benefits include parental and adoption assistance, wellness and employee assistance programs, backup care, volunteer PTO, employee resource groups, and inclusion programs.