About the Role
The Opportunity
At Abnormal Security we work hard to protect our customers from cybercrime. We’re building a world-class legal team to enable and support our business as we bring to market, deliver, and support cybersecurity products that make cloud office environments safer.
Abnormal Security is seeking our first Contracts Manager, Procurement to support our procurement function as part of the Commercial Legal team. Reporting to the Associate General Counsel, Commercial, you will play a critical role in managing and optimizing our procurement contract processes. You will oversee contract lifecycle management, negotiate vendor agreements, and ensure alignment between vendor contracts and company objectives while working closely with Procurement, Legal Operations, Finance, Security, and Business Units.
This role is essential to streamlining procurement workflows, ensuring compliance, and supporting a high-growth organization in scaling its vendor relationships effectively.
Who You Are
- Experienced contract drafter and negotiator; comfortable independently handling challenging and complex software deals with the world's most recognized brands
- Team-first collaborator with a strong work ethic
- At home in startup environments; able to perform under pressure and with partial fluidity as the company quickly grows
- Clear communicator who can simplify, organize, and deliver information and advice in a way that business people can understand and act upon
- Show up with grace, empathy, and a positive attitude no matter the circumstances
- Strategic thinker with strong organizational skills and desire to make legal processes more efficient
- Excellent business judgment
- Client-centric and pragmatic approach to handling complex legal issues
- Committed to our core principles and mission; you demonstrate them daily
What you will do
In this role, you will be responsible for execution of procurement-focused activities. Your ability to do the following will drive your success as Contracts Manager, Procurement:
- Own execution of the procurement legal process from intake, resourcing, and execution, meeting or exceeding internal SLOs, and managing KPI tracking and reports
- Advise on, negotiate, and close a wide range of inbound contracts including software licensing, professional services, marketing, NDAs, ensuring that each is aligned with Legal Playbook
- Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of procurement transacting workflows in CLM platform -- each workflow should be specifically designed to capture approvals and metadata to improve contract visibility, compliance, and reporting.
- Regularly update and enhance the procurement legal playbooks, collaborating with procurement stakeholders to establish clear guidelines that enable certain contracts to bypass legal review, reducing the need for day-to-day legal involvement in routine transactions.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders such as legal, finance, compliance, and business units to ensure contracts meet operational and regulatory requirements.
- Train internal teams on procurement contract management policies and processes, ensuring understanding and adherence to company positions and best practices.
- Support additional contracts and projects outside of standard inbound agreements as needed.
Must Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field.
- 8+ years of relevant experience drafting, redlining, and negotiating contracts with at least 3 years at high growth cybersecurity or SaaS company(s).
- Strong understanding of procurement best practices, contract terms, and risk management principles.
- Knowledge of global regulatory requirements related to procurement and contract management.
- Experience drafting, negotiating, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to manage a high volume of inbound agreements in collaboration with Legal
- Proficiency with Google Docs, Gmail, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Pro, DocuSign, CLM and other Legal Ops tools, and Slack
- Familiarity working across the globe, to support multiple time zones and cultures
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
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At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.
Base salary range:
$131,000—$155,000 USD
Top Skills
What We Do
The Abnormal Security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based Office 365 and G Suite integration, Abnormal sets up in minutes and does not disrupt email flow.
Abnormal Security was founded in 2018 by CEO Evan Reiser, CTO Sanjay Jeyakumar, Head of Machine Learning Jeshua Bratman, and Founding Engineers Abhijit Bagri and Dmitry Chechik. The team previously built behavioral profiling and machine learning technologies at Twitter, Google and Pinterest that are being applied to solve a problem that costs organizations $1 billion per year, according to the FBI. The Abnormal Security platform stops targeted phishing, business email compromise and account takeover attacks that have never been seen before.
