Legal Operations & Contracts Manager

Location: DFW

Department: DEPADM

The Opportunity

The Legal Operations & Contracts Manager leads the administration, coordination, tracking, execution, and repository management of the company's contract portfolio. Serving as the operational hub of the Legal Department, this role manages contract intake, workflow prioritization, NDA administration, document retention, signature processes, reporting, and legal technology administration. The position creates visibility into legal work, improves contract cycle times, maintains disciplined contract repositories, and enables attorneys to focus on strategic legal advice, negotiations, disputes, governance, and complex transactions.

What you will do?Contract Intake & Prioritization

• Serve as the initial point of contact for contract requests and manage intake workflows.

• Categorize and prioritize requests, maintain visibility of active matters, coordinate deadlines with business leaders, and escalate urgent, high-risk, or strategic matters to attorneys.

• Prepare weekly reports identifying bottlenecks, aging matters, and workload trends.

NDA Program Ownership

• Administer confidentiality agreements and NDAs from initiation through execution, including approvals, signatures, distribution, storage, indexing, and applicable expiration or termination tracking.

• Maintain NDA templates and playbooks and serve as the primary internal resource for NDA process questions.

Contract Lifecycle Administration

• Track contracts through intake, review, negotiation, approval, execution, storage, amendment, renewal, and termination.

• Maintain accurate status reporting; track key dates, notice periods, renewals, and obligations; and generate contract metrics and dashboards.

Repository & Records Management

• Own and administer Legal's contract repository, ensuring executed agreements are uploaded, organized, searchable, and supported by consistent metadata and naming conventions.

• Implement and monitor document retention requirements, support legal hold and audit requests, and administer legal repositories and contract databases.

Signature & Closing Coordination

• Manage signature workflows, routing, execution packages, and approval requirements under company delegations of authority.

• Maintain executed contract records and assemble closing binders and transaction documentation.

Legal Operations & Technology

• Develop and maintain department workflows and standard operating procedures.

• Create dashboards measuring contract cycle times, intake volume, backlog, template utilization, NDA volume, and SLA adherence.