# Manager, Contract Management

**Company**: The Walt Disney Company
**Location**: Minato-ku
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Entertainment

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## Description

The Contract Management group is responsible for managing all aspects of the contract lifecycle, from licensee on-boarding, contract negotiations, through contract amendments and renewals.

The position will be primarily responsible for the following key functions under the direction of Contract Management Senior Manager / Hub leader:

- Maintain deep understanding of contract execution process; act as subject matter expert (SME) on licensing contract execution

- Provide day-to-day directional leadership to vendor staff, provide timely information and instruction to vendor staff for all licensing contracts

- Review work product of vendor staff to ensure consistent standard of excellence

- Act as SME for training and knowledge transfer to vendor staff

- Address complex and escalated contract execution issues and determine course of action, including referring to Contract Management leadership, Licensing, Finance, or Legal

- Lead and participate in contract status meetings with stakeholders

- Ensure contract execution Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are met or exceeded. Ensure adherence to internal processes and controls

- Proactively identify roadblocks and risks and recommend solutions to the Contract Management leadership

- Partner with senior leadership to address licensee’s contract concerns, determine course of action and drive to resolution

- Participate in regional and global ad-hoc projects

- Participate in system and process improvement projects

- Minimal travel may be required <5%

**Professional Qualifications**

- Must possess a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

- Minimum five years of relevant experience

- Work experience within the entertainment industry would be considered a strong plus

**Specific Skills**

- Must possess strong quantitative and analytical skills with ability to interpret and communicate data to executive leadership and stakeholders

- Must have strong English and Japanese language skills. Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing and read and interpret complex legal documents in English and Japanese

- Prior leadership and/or project management experience would be considered a strong plus

- Prior experience managing vendor teams would be considered as a strong plus

- Strong relationship building skills and a highly professional “client service orientation”

- Must be able to interact with all levels of management orally and in writing

- Must be an excellent team player who possesses solid interpersonal and organizational skills

- Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, and pivot tables would be considered a strong plus

- Excellent communicator in both oral and written settings

- High energy level; strong work ethic

- Self-driven, independent thinker

- Results-oriented, decisive

- Exhibit a willingness to be adaptable and flexible and demonstrate a desire to operate in a dynamic environment

## Skills

### Required
- quantitative and analytical skills
- English language skills
- Japanese
- contract execution
- leadership
- project management
- vendor management
- relationship building
- communication skills
- teamwork
- interpersonal skills
- organizational skills

### Nice to have
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- pivot tables
- leadership experience
- project management experience
- vendor management experience

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