Job Description

Location:  Akron, OH (hybrid)
NO Sponsorship or Relocation 

Primary Purpose

Goodyear is seeking a highly skilled Contract Manager with a strong focus on continuous improvement processes. This position’s primary purpose is to oversee contract review, drafting and negotiation of Goodyear’s many commercial contracts across the North America business. This is a newly created position within the Contracts Center of Excellence Team. Your expertise will play a vital role in supporting Goodyear’s growth and maintaining our commitment to excellence with your strong negotiation skills, a thorough understanding of legal and contractual language, and the ability to manage relationships with both internal teams and external customers

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Contract Manager would support would be mostly medium complexity contracts, and some standard high complexity contracts.  Supporting the Senior Contract Manager on some nonstandard high complexity contracts if there is a surplus and for development opportunities
• Draft, revise, process Sales agreements (from request to execution)
• Review, draft and negotiate Master Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Order Forms,  and other required legal documents of high complexity
• Collaborate with the legal team, security, procurement, sales, and other internal stakeholders to update templates, establish risk assessment best practices, and develop internal resources for negotiations and policies. Assist Sales personnel as necessary in the development and use of requests for information, requests for proposals and similar documents
• Implementing and improving procurement processes for review, modification, approval and retention of contracts and other legal documents. Leading projects and coaching other contract professional

Required Education and Experience

• Required: BS or BA Degree (in lieu of Degree, 10+ years of experience in the field)
• A minimum of 5 years experience in contract analysis in a related industry (preferably contract administration and management, preferably in a global business environment and successfully leading and supporting projects of varying levels of complexity)
• Experience working with document/ contract management tools, software, and databases, including contract authoring, markups and maintaining version control of documents.

Desired Skills and Abilitie s

• Highest level of ethical conduct and integrity
• Excellent communication skills (verbal/written), with the ability to navigate across functions and establish trusted partnerships with business and legal teams
• Committed to delivering exceptional client service in a fast-paced corporate environment
• Highly motivated, efficient, organized and detail oriented
• Ability to multi-task and work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to present in from of teams
• Demonstrated knowledge of legal concepts relating to contracting and intellectual property matters
• Ability to analyze legal contract terms and identify risks

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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 71,000 people and manufactures its products in 55 facilities in 22 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to .

Goodyear is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you need reasonable accommodation to complete the online application, or any other part of the employment process, please contact the Goodyear Candidate Care Line at 330.796.4500.

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