Join a team where your ability to coach, mentor, and lead with calm confidence directly shapes customer success. In this role, you’ll partner closely with stakeholders across the business, responding with urgency, clarity, and professionalism while guiding teams through high‑stakes decisions and competing priorities. **Your role:** + Serves as the organization’s expert in contract management, offering strategic guidance on high‑value, complex agreements and advising senior leadership on critical decisions. + Leads the negotiation, drafting, and execution of intricate contracts, ensuring terms align with business objectives and meet all legal and compliance standards. + Designs and implements advanced contract management frameworks and best‑practice methodologies to elevate organizational performance and ensure regulatory alignment. + Performs thorough risk assessments on high‑stakes contracts and resolves complex contractual issues by applying deep subject‑matter expertise and effective mitigation strategies. + Mentors team members while shaping contract‑related policies and collaborating with cross‑functional leaders, providing insights that support strategic planning and continuous improvement. **You're the right fit if:** + You’ve acquired 8+ years of experience in contract management (drafting, negotiation of terms, aligning cross-functionally with stakeholders). + Your skills include commercial acumen, risk mitigation strategies, stakeholder management, regulatory compliance, key performance indicator management, strategy implementation, and continuous improvement. + You have a juris doctorate degree. + You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position . + You excel at coaching and mentoring, providing calm, steady guidance even when responding urgently to stakeholders and leaders on fast‑moving customer deals. You effectively balance competing priorities while maintaining clarity, composure, and trust. **How we work together** We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an office-based role. **About Philips** We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others. + Learn more about our business (https://www.philips.com/a-w/about.html) . + Discover our rich and exciting history. (https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/our-history.html) + Learn more about our purpose. (https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/environmental-social-governance/our-purpose) + Learn more about our culture. (https://www.careers.philips.com/na/en/our-culture-philips-careers) **Philips Transparency Details** The pay range for this position in Tennessee is $112,500 to 180,000 annually. The pay range for this position in Massachusetts and Washington $126,000 to $201,600. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.   In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives, may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here (https://www.philipsusbenefits.com/) . At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. **Additional Information** US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. Company relocation benefits **will not** be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in **or** within commuting distance to Nashville, TN., Bothell, Washington., or Cambridge, MA. USA It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. 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