Contracts Manager – Salem
Listed on 2026-01-16
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Business
Business Administration, Business Management, Business Analyst, Business Development
Job Title:
Contracts Manager
Department Admin
Reports To Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
FLSA Status Exempt
Location Salem, Oregon
Salary:
This position is classified at $78,000 annual salary
Garten is excited to offer an opportunity to join our hardworking and mission-driven team as the
Contracts Manager
. As a not-for-profit organization focused on hiring people with disabilities, we are dedicated to providing high-quality services that make a meaningful impact in the community. For over 55 years, we have operated with a strong commitment to excellence, adapting and growing through changing times. This role provides the chance to contribute to a well-established organization that values dedication, innovation, and service.
Summary
The Contracts Manager leads the organization’s contract development and administration, ensuring contracts are prepared, priced, executed, and managed with consistency and integrity. This role owns the full contract lifecycle and plays a key role in translating operational inputs and organizational standards into clear, executable agreements.
By partnering closely with operations, accounting, and executive leadership, the Contracts Manager provides structure and oversight across contract processes, reduces risk, and ensures pricing and contract terms are applied consistently. The role brings clarity and accountability to an area that directly impacts operations, revenue, and long-term sustainability.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities- Own the full contract lifecycle, including opportunity and RFP monitoring, intake, proposal preparation and submittal, review, approval coordination, execution, amendment, renewal, expiration, and closeout.
- Oversee the contract database as the system of record for all executed agreements and related documentation.
- Ensure contracts and proposals are processed accurately, consistently, and in a timely manner through execution.
- Assemble and prepare required proposal and contract deliverables using inputs from operational managers and other internal stakeholders, ensuring all required inputs are complete prior to submittal or execution.
- Ensure all contracts adhere to approved pricing strategies, rate structures, and commercial guidelines.
- Partner with leadership to support the development, maintenance, and refinement of pricing strategies.
- Prepare contract pricing using operational inputs and approved pricing models, rate structures, and standards, and review pricing outputs for alignment with established pricing requirements.
- Identify, elevate, and resolve pricing deviations, exceptions, or commercial risks in accordance with organizational approval requirements.
- Serve as a central point of coordination between operations, accounting, and executive leadership on contract-related matters.
- Collaborate with accounting to ensure contracts are properly linked to associated revenue accounts.
- Support resolution of billing discrepancies and contract-related revenue issues in coordination with accounting and operations.
- Identify contractual, pricing, and process risks and elevate appropriately.
- Ensure contracts comply with internal policies, approval authorities, and applicable regulatory or contractual requirements.
- Maintain audit-ready contract documentation and controls.
- Exercise authority to return, delay, or elevate contracts that do not meet established contract standards, pricing strategies, or approval requirements.
- Establish, document, and maintain standardized contract administration workflows, tools, templates, and operating procedures, including pricing-related standards.
- Oversee contract data integrity and reporting, whether contract data entry is performed directly or supported by administrative staff.
- Develop and provide reporting on contract activity, cycle times, renewals, pricing compliance, and related metrics.
- Surface trends, risks, and improvement opportunities to executive leadership.
- Bachelor’s…
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