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Contract Performance Manager jobs are open across government contracting, defense, healthcare, and consulting, at every level from analyst to senior manager, with specializations in vendor oversight, SLA compliance, and procurement performance. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Primary Focus:
As Senior Manager, Performance Creative Strategy at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are responsible for shaping the strategic priorities, audience opportunities and learning agenda behind Fanatics Markets performance creative. You'll uncover the hooks, angles and fan insights most likely to resonate, translate them into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, and track performance to understand what works and why. This role connects fan insight, creative development and performance results, ensuring learnings continuously inform future briefs across acquisition, engagement and retention. Markets and Sportsbook share many of the same fans, moments and creative systems, so you'll work in close partnership with the OSB Performance Creative team to align priorities, share learnings and avoid duplicating effort.
This is a six-month contract role reporting to the Senior Director, Performance Creative & GTM.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the Markets performance creative strategy across paid social, app networks, CTV, affiliates and lifecycle, aligned with business priorities, audience insight and brand positioning.
- Build and maintain the Markets creative variation framework, mapping hooks, angles, reasons to believe, formats and offers to audience and funnel stage.
- Translate business objectives and fan insight into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, including messaging territories, hook hypotheses, angles and iteration briefs.
- Own the Markets testing agenda, defining what we want to learn, how we measure a win, and which tests run each month.
- Run a high-velocity testing program across hooks, openers, formats, offers and creators, improving hit rate and speed to learning.
- Partner with Media and Analytics to track creative performance, identify winners and fatigue early, and apply learnings to the next round of briefs.
- Write concise test readouts and maintain a living library of what works for Markets audiences, shared with the OSB team so learnings travel across both products.
- Identify performance territories, audience tensions and messaging opportunities to support creative briefs.
- Support brand and full-funnel campaign briefs with clear performance requirements, working with Integrated Marketing and Media so channel, audience, format and measurement needs are set before creative development begins. Partner with the Creative Studio to translate those requirements into effective creative, with the Studio retaining ownership of creative direction and execution.
- Advise Brand and agency partners on hooks, edits, cutdowns, aspect ratios and platform-native versions, so big campaign moments carry through to always-on performance and lifecycle.
- Source fan insight, competitor ad libraries, creator content and platform trends to identify new angles and white space.
- Contribute a strong performance POV to creative insight sessions and brainstorms, working closely with the Creative Studio.
- Share performance learnings and recommendations in GTM forums and monthly reviews.
What You'll Deliver in Six Months:
- A Markets testing agenda and monthly testing cadence, live within your first 30 days.
- A documented creative variation framework for Market.
- A shared testing and learnings rhythm with the OSB Performance Creative team.
- A steady flow of briefs, tests and written readouts, with winners scaled into the always-on mix.
- A learnings library and handover documentation so the work continues after the engagement ends.
How This Role Connects Across the Team:
- Partners closely with the OSB Performance Creative team on shared sport moments, audiences and testing, aligning briefs and calendars, pooling learnings, and adapting proven OSB creative for Market where it fits.
- Partners with the internal producer, who owns production timelines and delivery, to keep briefs, priorities and the content calendar aligned.
- Partners with the Creative Studio and Integrated Marketing to shape high-quality output, providing direction and feedback while respecting executional ownership.
- Partners with Brand and Integrated Marketing to embed performance best practice into campaigns, ensuring work is both distinctive and built to perform across the funnel.
- Partners with Media, Analytics and CRM to define success measures, read results and feed learnings back into strategy.
- Partners with the affiliate team on UGC briefs aligned to channel best practice.
- Works with Legal, Compliance and Creative Operations to keep all creative compliant and aligned with Responsible Gaming standards.
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance creative or brand strategy, ideally within a fast-growing D2C brand, mobile app, sports, gaming or entertainment business.
- Portfolio demonstrating hook-led, insight-driven creative and the performance results behind it.
- Strong knowledge of platform-native creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snap and app networks, including UGC and creator formats.
- Hands-on experience running creative testing programs at volume.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to read performance data and translate it into clear recommendations.
- Excellent storytelling and writing skills, from a 6-second hook to a campaign narrative to a performance readout.
- Experience working across matrixed teams and influencing work you don't directly own.
- Able to ramp quickly and deliver within a fixed-term engagement.
- Willingness to travel occasionally for team meetings and Fanatics events.
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.
About Us
Primary Focus:
As Senior Manager, Performance Creative Strategy at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are responsible for shaping the strategic priorities, audience opportunities and learning agenda behind Fanatics Markets performance creative. You'll uncover the hooks, angles and fan insights most likely to resonate, translate them into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, and track performance to understand what works and why. This role connects fan insight, creative development and performance results, ensuring learnings continuously inform future briefs across acquisition, engagement and retention. Markets and Sportsbook share many of the same fans, moments and creative systems, so you'll work in close partnership with the OSB Performance Creative team to align priorities, share learnings and avoid duplicating effort.
This is a six-month contract role reporting to the Senior Director, Performance Creative & GTM.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the Markets performance creative strategy across paid social, app networks, CTV, affiliates and lifecycle, aligned with business priorities, audience insight and brand positioning.
- Build and maintain the Markets creative variation framework, mapping hooks, angles, reasons to believe, formats and offers to audience and funnel stage.
- Translate business objectives and fan insight into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, including messaging territories, hook hypotheses, angles and iteration briefs.
- Own the Markets testing agenda, defining what we want to learn, how we measure a win, and which tests run each month.
- Run a high-velocity testing program across hooks, openers, formats, offers and creators, improving hit rate and speed to learning.
- Partner with Media and Analytics to track creative performance, identify winners and fatigue early, and apply learnings to the next round of briefs.
- Write concise test readouts and maintain a living library of what works for Markets audiences, shared with the OSB team so learnings travel across both products.
- Identify performance territories, audience tensions and messaging opportunities to support creative briefs.
- Support brand and full-funnel campaign briefs with clear performance requirements, working with Integrated Marketing and Media so channel, audience, format and measurement needs are set before creative development begins. Partner with the Creative Studio to translate those requirements into effective creative, with the Studio retaining ownership of creative direction and execution.
- Advise Brand and agency partners on hooks, edits, cutdowns, aspect ratios and platform-native versions, so big campaign moments carry through to always-on performance and lifecycle.
- Source fan insight, competitor ad libraries, creator content and platform trends to identify new angles and white space.
- Contribute a strong performance POV to creative insight sessions and brainstorms, working closely with the Creative Studio.
- Share performance learnings and recommendations in GTM forums and monthly reviews.
What You'll Deliver in Six Months:
- A Markets testing agenda and monthly testing cadence, live within your first 30 days.
- A documented creative variation framework for Market.
- A shared testing and learnings rhythm with the OSB Performance Creative team.
- A steady flow of briefs, tests and written readouts, with winners scaled into the always-on mix.
- A learnings library and handover documentation so the work continues after the engagement ends.
How This Role Connects Across the Team:
- Partners closely with the OSB Performance Creative team on shared sport moments, audiences and testing, aligning briefs and calendars, pooling learnings, and adapting proven OSB creative for Market where it fits.
- Partners with the internal producer, who owns production timelines and delivery, to keep briefs, priorities and the content calendar aligned.
- Partners with the Creative Studio and Integrated Marketing to shape high-quality output, providing direction and feedback while respecting executional ownership.
- Partners with Brand and Integrated Marketing to embed performance best practice into campaigns, ensuring work is both distinctive and built to perform across the funnel.
- Partners with Media, Analytics and CRM to define success measures, read results and feed learnings back into strategy.
- Partners with the affiliate team on UGC briefs aligned to channel best practice.
- Works with Legal, Compliance and Creative Operations to keep all creative compliant and aligned with Responsible Gaming standards.
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance creative or brand strategy, ideally within a fast-growing D2C brand, mobile app, sports, gaming or entertainment business.
- Portfolio demonstrating hook-led, insight-driven creative and the performance results behind it.
- Strong knowledge of platform-native creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snap and app networks, including UGC and creator formats.
- Hands-on experience running creative testing programs at volume.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to read performance data and translate it into clear recommendations.
- Excellent storytelling and writing skills, from a 6-second hook to a campaign narrative to a performance readout.
- Experience working across matrixed teams and influencing work you don't directly own.
- Able to ramp quickly and deliver within a fixed-term engagement.
- Willingness to travel occasionally for team meetings and Fanatics events.
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
#li-JM3
By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in contract performance manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain, or a related field
- Experience managing contract compliance and performance metrics for vendors or service providers
- Proficiency with contract management systems and enterprise procurement platforms
- Knowledge of FAR and DFARS regulations for candidates pursuing federal or defense roles
- CPCM, CFCM, or equivalent NCMA certification preferred for mid to senior positions
- Strong written communication skills for drafting performance reports and corrective action plans
Tips for Your Contract Performance Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to the contract lifecycle
Hiring managers for contract performance manager roles scan for specific lifecycle language: kick-off, milestone tracking, variance reporting, and closeout. Align your bullet points to the phases called out in each job posting rather than listing generic project management duties.
Certify before you apply to federal roles
Federal and defense contract performance manager postings almost always require or strongly prefer a CPCM, CFCM, or FAC-C credential. If you're targeting those sectors, earning one of those certifications moves your resume past the automatic filter most agencies apply.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists contract performance manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight KPI ownership, not just monitoring
Many candidates describe watching metrics rather than owning them. Reframe your experience to show that you set the KPIs, enforced remediation plans when vendors missed targets, and documented corrective actions. That distinction separates strong candidates from coordinators.
Prepare a remediation scenario for interviews
Interviewers for these roles almost always ask how you handled a vendor or contractor who missed a deliverable. Walk in with a specific example that covers how you identified the breach, escalated appropriately, and documented the resolution. Vague answers here cost offers.
Negotiate using total contract value as context
When discussing compensation, anchor the conversation to the scale of contracts you've managed. A candidate overseeing a large multi-year portfolio has clear leverage to negotiate beyond the posted band, especially in consulting and defense contracting environments.
Contract Performance Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most contract performance managers?
Fanatics, L.A. Care Health Plan, and GoTo are hiring the most contract performance managers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and Alabama, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Defense contractors, large consulting firms, and healthcare systems tend to maintain the most consistent hiring volume for this role.
How many contract performance manager jobs are remote?
About 100% of contract performance manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by industry. Roles focused on SLA reporting, vendor performance analytics, and internal compliance documentation are the most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements, while positions requiring on-site contractor oversight are typically in-person.
How do you become a contract performance manager?
Start by building experience in procurement, contract administration, or vendor management, either through a coordinator or analyst role. Pursue a certification through the National Contract Management Association, such as the CPCM or CFCM, to signal formal competency. From there, move into roles with increasing ownership over performance reporting, corrective action processes, and contract closeout to qualify for manager-level positions.
How do you get hired as a contract performance manager with little experience?
Entry points into this field include contract administrator, procurement analyst, and vendor relations coordinator roles, which give you direct exposure to the compliance and reporting work contract performance managers own. Emphasize any experience tracking deliverables, managing service agreements, or documenting vendor issues in your resume. Earning a foundational NCMA credential while in an entry-level role signals readiness to move up faster.
What does the contract performance manager interview process look like?
Most hiring processes for this role include an initial screening call focused on your contract management background, followed by a panel or hiring manager interview with behavioral and situational questions about vendor disputes, missed deliverables, and compliance reporting. Some employers add a written exercise asking you to review a sample contract or scorecard and identify performance gaps before a final offer conversation.
Where can I find and apply to contract performance manager jobs?
You can find and apply to contract performance manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and preferences, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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