About the role
Commercial Contracts Manager
Build Preservica's First Contracts Function
Abingdon UK - Hybrid
Can you identify a good contract from a bad one? Can you negotiate the latter into the former? Are you organised and logical with a healthy dose of common sense? Are you ready to take the helm on your own SaaS sector contracts function?
We are Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation, trusted by organisations to preserve their most important digital records for decades to come. From national archives and government agencies to universities and global enterprises, our customers rely on us to ensure critical information remains accessible, compliant, and defensible.
Right now we're looking for a hands-on Commercial Contracts Manager to take ownership of contract review, negotiation, administration, and legal operations across our growing global SaaS business. Reporting to the CFO, you'll be the first dedicated hire in this area, helping build the processes, tooling, templates, and governance that support our future growth. This is a hybrid role, worked mostly from home with regular days in our Abingdon office. You should live within commuting distance of Abingdon.
This isn't about inheriting a mature legal function........It's about creating one
What You'll Do
- Review and negotiate customer, supplier, and partner contracts.
- Manage contracts from drafting through to signature and filing.
- Advise stakeholders on commercial and contractual risk.
- Build contract management processes, playbooks, and reporting.
- Support UK and US regulatory and contractual research.
- Introduce tools and governance that improve efficiency and visibility.
What Success Looks Like
Within your first year, you will have:
✅ Reduced the amount of contract-related work handled by the CFO and CISO
✅ Improved contract turnaround times
✅ Created clear visibility of contract status across the business
✅ Implemented scalable templates, playbooks and governance processes
✅ Built an audit-ready contract repository
✅ Increased stakeholder confidence across Sales, Customer Success, Security and Finance
About You
- Strong contract review, drafting and redlining skills
- Experience managing contracts through the full lifecycle
- Exposure to contract negotiations with customers, suppliers or partners
- Excellent attention to detail and commercial judgement
- Ability to distinguish material issues from minor points
- Comfortable balancing commercial judgement with risk management.
- Experience conducting legal or statutory research
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
You should also have
- Experience within SaaS, technology, or software sectors
- Hands on experience with public sector or regulated industries
- Familiarity with Data Protection, security and privacy provisions
- Built or improved contracts processes and tooling
- Effective AI tools skills to improve productivity and efficiency
Why Preservica?
This is a rare opportunity to join an established category leader at a pivotal point in its growth journey. You'll have executive visibility, ownership of a global function, direct access to senior leadership, genuine autonomy and influence, all whilst supporting complex international commercial contracts in a growing SaaS business.
If you're excited by the challenge of building, influencing, and scaling our Commercial Contracts operation then we should talk!
Preservica are an Equal Opportunities Employer. Come join us!