# Contracting Process Improvement and Innovation Specialist

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD$150,000.00 - USD$205,000.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

BlackRock SMA Solutions is seeking a Contracting Process Improvement and Innovation Specialist to drive operational scale, process improvement, and innovation across the contracting function. The successful candidate will lead initiatives to enhance the end-to-end contract lifecycle, identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and support business growth.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead process improvement, automation, and innovation initiatives across the contract lifecycle.

- Design and implement scalable workflow solutions that improve efficiency, consistency, and stakeholder experience.

- Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, eliminate bottlenecks, improve turnaround times, and increase operational scale.

- Evaluate, develop, and deploy AI-enabled solutions, workflow automations, knowledge assistants, copilots, and other productivity tools that support contracting operations.

- Leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve contract review, knowledge management, reporting, self-service support, and operational decision-making.

- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize opportunities, and deliver practical, scalable solutions.

- Develop reporting, dashboards, and metrics to monitor operational performance and measure business impact.

- Create and maintain process documentation, playbooks, and training materials that promote consistency and adoption.

- Support governance, change management, and user adoption efforts associated with new tools, processes, and ways of working.

- Stay informed on trends and developments in AI, automation, contract lifecycle management, and legal operations, identifying opportunities to apply them within the contracting function.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.

- 6-10 years of experience in contract management, legal operations, business operations, process improvement, or a related function.

- Demonstrated experience leading process improvement, automation, technology implementation, or operational transformation initiatives.

- Experience supporting contract lifecycle management processes and related business workflows.

- Experience with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms, preferably DocuSign CLM.

- Familiarity with workflow automation and low-code platforms such as Salesforce, Airtable, Microsoft Power Platform, or similar technologies.

- Hands-on experience leveraging AI and automation technologies to solve business problems and improve operational efficiency.

- Strong familiarity with generative AI tools and their practical application in business environments.

- Experience building, configuring, or deploying workflow automations, AI-enabled assistants, copilots, agents, knowledge management solutions, or similar productivity tools strongly preferred.

- Experience with platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, ChatGPT, Claude (Anthropic), Power Platform, Salesforce, Airtable, DocuSign CLM/IAM, or similar technologies is highly desirable.

- Strong analytical, project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen effectively and ask relevant questions.

- Ability to influence stakeholders and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.

- Experience within financial services, legal, compliance, or other regulated environments is preferred.

**Salary Range:** For San Francisco, CA and Sausalito, CA Only the salary range for this position is USD$150,000.00 - USD$205,000.00 .

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Retirement benefits

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

- Support for working parents

## Skills

### Required
- Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)
- Workflow automation
- AI-enabled solutions
- Process improvement
- Automation
- Innovation
- Project management
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Interpersonal skills
- Influence stakeholders

### Nice to have
- DocuSign CLM
- Salesforce
- Airtable
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Generative AI tools
- Copilot Studio
- ChatGPT
- Claude (Anthropic)
- Power Platform

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