Manager, Technology Project Management

Duties

Governance and Program Oversight

• Develop and maintain integrated program plans for CLM technology initiatives, including platform enhancements, integrations, and releases.
• Drive cross-functional coordination across business, legal, and technical stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic CLM objectives.
• Establish and operate program governance routines, including status reporting, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and escalation as it relates to CLM technology.
• Support leadership with clear progress updates, insights, and recommendations to enable effective decision-making.
• Leverage standardized PMO tools, templates, and reporting forums to ensure consistency and transparency across CLM initiatives.

CLM Technology Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery of CLM technology workstreams from planning through deployment and post‑go‑live stabilization.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to review solution designs and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and security requirements.
• Translate business and legal requirements into clear technical requirements, user stories, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate delivery across internal technology teams and third‑party vendors or system integrators.

Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Leadership

• Serve as the primary coordination point between Legal, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, IT, and external partners for CLM initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align on scope, priorities, dependencies, and delivery sequencing.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships across functions to proactively manage dependencies and resolve delivery challenges.

Risk, Issue, and Change Management

• Identify, track, and manage program risks, issues, and change requests related to scope, timeline, cost, and quality.
• Ensure appropriate governance and approval mechanisms are followed for CLM-related changes.
• Proactively assess impacts related to data privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.

Adoption, Enablement, and Readiness

• Partner with change management, training, and communications teams to support CLM rollout and adoption planning.
• Track readiness activities, milestones, and dependencies to ensure successful deployment.
• Support measurement of adoption and post‑launch outcomes to inform continuous improvement.