Contract Specialist, Top Hat
Procurement
Interactive software for higher education
Job no longer available
Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in a Paralegal, Procurement or a similar role
- Familiar with contract lifecycle management tools and workflow management software, e.g., Ironclad, Jira, or Streamline AI
- Proven experience managing budgets, including tracking expenses and identifying cost-saving opportunities
- Experience managing contract negotiations and working with internal stakeholders to support a technology business is preferred
- Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
- Strong negotiation, organizational, and project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across departments
- Experience with intellectual property, patent processes, or RFP processes is a plus!
What the job involves
- This role reports directly to the Senior Director, Legal & Data Privacy Officer.
- In this role, you will play a critical part in managing the procurement function at Top Hat, including sourcing and negotiating terms with potential vendors for Top Hat, reviewing vendor contracts, and supporting cross-functional teams to ensure efficient onboarding of vendors into Top Hat's systems
- If you enjoy negotiating, networking, and working with a wide variety of tools, technologies, and teams, this role is for you!
- Vendor Contract Management: Negotiate and manage vendor contracts on behalf of teams across the business, track contract expirations and renewals, and identify potential risks
- Operational Support: Maintain Top Hat's software tracker and assist in evaluating new solutions for procurement management
- Independent Contractor Management: Oversee contract generation and compliance for independent contractors across the business
- Document and Workflow Management: Track contract statuses, manage document repositories, and maintain workflows using tools like Ironclad and Streamline AI
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a point of contact between the legal and other internal teams, ensuring alignment and timely resolution of requests
- Request Management: Support the Senior Legal Operations Specialist to handle and resolve various legal requests, including contract requests, DMCA takedown requests, NDA reviews, and order form assistance
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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