Associate Contracts Manager

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. About the Role We are seeking a proactive, organized Contracts Manager to support the Commercial Legal team in managing contracts, contract processes, and assisting with legal operations initiatives for commercial legal and cross-functional projects. This role combines contract administration, contract review and drafting, project coordination and process improvement responsibilities, making it an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop a career in contract management, legal operations or project management. The successful candidate will be confident working with stakeholders across the business, comfortable managing multiple priorities, and passionate about creating efficient processes and workflows. They will play a key role in supporting the contract lifecycle, driving operational improvements and helping ensure projects and contractual matters are delivered on time. What You’ll do: Contract Review, Management & Metrics Review non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and other simple agreements in accordance with approved playbooks and guidance whilst developing confidence on negotiating and learning when to escalate issues. Manage contract intake, triage and routing through established legal processes and assist with improving these processes. Coordinate internal approvals and execution processes, ensuring agreements are signed and completed in a timely manner. Maintain contract and project dashboards, trackers and management information. Monitor key metrics, including contract volumes, turnaround times, execution timelines and process performance. Produce reports and insights to support continuous improvement initiatives and operational decision-making. Process Improvement, Legal Operations & Automation Support the development, documentation and continuous improvement of legal and contract management processes. Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort and standardise ways of working. Create and maintain workflows, process maps, guidance documents and operational procedures. Develop and maintain project plans, action trackers, timelines and status reports. Track project milestones, dependencies and deliverables to ensure projects remain on schedule, proactively managing follow-ups and driving accountability amongst stakeholders to ensure actions are completed on time. Act as a point of contact for routine business queries relating to legal processes, contract status and execution processes. Support training and awareness initiatives relating to legal processes, contract management tools and self-service resources. What you’ll bring Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. 1–3 years' experience in a contracts, legal, operations, project coordination or administrative role. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience coordinating multiple priorities and delivering work to deadlines. Experience working within a legal department, legal operations function or commercial environment. Process-oriented mindset with a genuine interest in creating efficient workflows, improving processes and driving operational excellence. Strong attention to detail and ability to identify risks, inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement. Ability to work independently, take ownership of tasks and drive them through to completion. Resilience and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment. Bonus

Skills

• Highlight any experience you have with Excel dashboards or metric reporting in your CV; concrete examples of trackers you built will stand out.
• Prepare a short case study of a contract‑process improvement you led, focusing on the problem, your solution, and measurable results.
• During the interview, demonstrate how you would handle a simple NDA review, showing your attention to detail and understanding of playbook guidelines.
• If you have used contract‑management platforms (DocuSign, SharePoint, Ironclad, etc.), be ready to discuss specific features you leveraged.
• Ask about the team’s current automation roadmap; showing curiosity about process‑automation signals the right mindset for this role.
• When negotiating, factor in remote‑work allowances such as home‑office equipment or internet subsidies, which are common for fully remote UK positions.
• Watch for vague references to “unlimited PTO” without clear policy details; clarify the actual leave entitlement before accepting an offer.