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Remote contracting manager jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed teams in sectors like government contracting, defense, healthcare, and technology. Employers hiring remote contracting managers right now include Oscar Management Corporation, Mercy, and SmithRx. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Location Address:
Remote Office Santa Fe, NM 87501
Compensation Pay Range:
Minimum Offer $87,526.40 Maximum Offer $149,032.00
Summary
The Sourcing and Contracting Manager is responsible for strategic planning, sourcing, and contract management across all enterprise purchased services, with a strong focus on high-impact service categories, supplier performance, and stakeholder satisfaction. You will proactively identify opportunities to improve operational outcomes, reduce total cost of ownership, forecast service utilization, evaluate new service requests, manage expiring contracts, and ensure that a standardized sourcing and value-optimization process is consistently applied to maximize value for PHS.
This role requires strong leadership and communication skills to guide critical thinking, strategic planning, and consensus-building among operational leaders, service line executives, and key stakeholders. You will provide enterprise-wide coordination to drive standardization, alignment, and performance improvement across all purchased services categories.
You will also manage new service requests, conduct industry and market research, coordinate pilot programs, and collaborate with senior leaders when assessing organizational needs or communicating decisions. This role significantly influences enterprise-wide initiatives, supports senior executive leadership, drives cost savings and quality improvements, mitigates risk, and ensures compliance with PHS policies and procedures. Has demonstrated expertise in contract negotiation, including the ability to secure favorable terms, mitigate risk, while driving organizational outcomes, is critical to delivering strategic value.
Type of Opportunity: Full time
Job Exempt: Yes
Job is based: Remote Workers New Mexico
Work Shift: Weekday Schedule Monday-Friday (United States of America)
Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic sourcing and contracting for purchased services across the PHS enterprise.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational outcomes, reduce costs, and forecast supply and service utilization.
- Manage the full sourcing and contracting process, including analytics, stakeholder engagement, RFIs/RFPs, evaluations, and recommendations.
- Draft, negotiate, and implement contracts, including supplier conversions and new product/service rollouts.
- Oversee new product and service requests, conduct industry research, and coordinate pilot programs.
- Collaborate with senior executives when assessing organization needs or communicating decisions.
- Ensure standardization and alignment of purchased services across the enterprise.
- Support enterprise cost-savings, quality improvement, and risk-mitigation initiatives.
- Maintain compliance with PHS policies and procedures while supporting stakeholder satisfaction and operational excellence.
Preferences:
- CMRP, CPSM CHPSS certifications
Remote: Open to remote applicants in the United States, except for the following states: California, Illinois, North Dakota, New York, Ohio, Washington and Wyoming
Hybrid: In office expected for individuals within 60 Miles of Albuquerque every Tues, Wed, Thurs
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required (an additional 6 years of experience may substitute); MBA preferred
- 5 years of experience in healthcare supply chain or related industry
- 5 years of experience in purchased services analysis, negotiating, contracting, purchasing, or legal contracting, with the ability to lead both tactical and strategic negotiations
- Strong healthcare purchased services knowledge, including pricing structures, and revenue/margin impacts
- High proficiency in financial analytics and data-driven decision-making
All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.
Wellness
Presbyterian's Employee Wellness rewards program is designed to provide you with engaging opportunities to enhance your health and activate your well-being. Earn gift cards and more by taking an active role in our personal well-being by participating in wellness activities like wellness challenges, webinars, preventive screening and more.
Why work at Presbyterian?
As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans.
About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.
Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.
AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.
We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Location Address:
Remote Office Santa Fe, NM 87501
Compensation Pay Range:
Minimum Offer $87,526.40 Maximum Offer $149,032.00
Summary
The Sourcing and Contracting Manager is responsible for strategic planning, sourcing, and contract management across all enterprise purchased services, with a strong focus on high-impact service categories, supplier performance, and stakeholder satisfaction. You will proactively identify opportunities to improve operational outcomes, reduce total cost of ownership, forecast service utilization, evaluate new service requests, manage expiring contracts, and ensure that a standardized sourcing and value-optimization process is consistently applied to maximize value for PHS.
This role requires strong leadership and communication skills to guide critical thinking, strategic planning, and consensus-building among operational leaders, service line executives, and key stakeholders. You will provide enterprise-wide coordination to drive standardization, alignment, and performance improvement across all purchased services categories.
You will also manage new service requests, conduct industry and market research, coordinate pilot programs, and collaborate with senior leaders when assessing organizational needs or communicating decisions. This role significantly influences enterprise-wide initiatives, supports senior executive leadership, drives cost savings and quality improvements, mitigates risk, and ensures compliance with PHS policies and procedures. Has demonstrated expertise in contract negotiation, including the ability to secure favorable terms, mitigate risk, while driving organizational outcomes, is critical to delivering strategic value.
Type of Opportunity: Full time
Job Exempt: Yes
Job is based: Remote Workers New Mexico
Work Shift: Weekday Schedule Monday-Friday (United States of America)
Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic sourcing and contracting for purchased services across the PHS enterprise.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational outcomes, reduce costs, and forecast supply and service utilization.
- Manage the full sourcing and contracting process, including analytics, stakeholder engagement, RFIs/RFPs, evaluations, and recommendations.
- Draft, negotiate, and implement contracts, including supplier conversions and new product/service rollouts.
- Oversee new product and service requests, conduct industry research, and coordinate pilot programs.
- Collaborate with senior executives when assessing organization needs or communicating decisions.
- Ensure standardization and alignment of purchased services across the enterprise.
- Support enterprise cost-savings, quality improvement, and risk-mitigation initiatives.
- Maintain compliance with PHS policies and procedures while supporting stakeholder satisfaction and operational excellence.
Preferences:
- CMRP, CPSM CHPSS certifications
Remote: Open to remote applicants in the United States, except for the following states: California, Illinois, North Dakota, New York, Ohio, Washington and Wyoming
Hybrid: In office expected for individuals within 60 Miles of Albuquerque every Tues, Wed, Thurs
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required (an additional 6 years of experience may substitute); MBA preferred
- 5 years of experience in healthcare supply chain or related industry
- 5 years of experience in purchased services analysis, negotiating, contracting, purchasing, or legal contracting, with the ability to lead both tactical and strategic negotiations
- Strong healthcare purchased services knowledge, including pricing structures, and revenue/margin impacts
- High proficiency in financial analytics and data-driven decision-making
All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.
Wellness
Presbyterian's Employee Wellness rewards program is designed to provide you with engaging opportunities to enhance your health and activate your well-being. Earn gift cards and more by taking an active role in our personal well-being by participating in wellness activities like wellness challenges, webinars, preventive screening and more.
Why work at Presbyterian?
As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans.
About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.
Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.
AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.
We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Construction & Real Estate
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote contracting manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, law, or a related field
- 3-7 years of experience managing contracts from award through closeout
- Working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, or applicable commercial contract regulations
- Experience with contract lifecycle management software or enterprise procurement platforms
- CPCM, CFCM, or equivalent professional contracting certification preferred
- Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated ability to manage vendor or agency relationships
Tips for Your Remote Contracting Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote contracting manager openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search for roles that match your contract type experience and apply directly without sorting through location-based listings.
Show your async contract management process
Remote employers want to see how you manage contract milestones, vendor communications, and approvals without real-time check-ins. Describe your use of contract lifecycle management tools, shared document workflows, and written status updates in your resume and cover letter.
Highlight distributed team coordination experience
Remote contracting manager roles often involve coordinating across legal, finance, and procurement teams in different time zones. Call out specific instances where you managed contract cycles with stakeholders you never met in person, and name the collaboration tools you used.
Prepare for async-first remote interviews
Many remote-first employers use written case questions, asynchronous video screens, or multi-day take-home contract review exercises before a live call. Practice summarizing your contract negotiation approach and risk mitigation decisions clearly in writing, not just verbally.
Remote Contracting Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote contracting manager job?
Target companies with distributed procurement or legal teams, since those organizations are already set up to manage contracts without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen for self-direction, precise written communication, and fluency with contract lifecycle management tools and digital document workflows. Candidates who can demonstrate independent negotiation experience and clear async reporting practices have a real edge over those whose experience is entirely office-based.
Which companies hire remote contracting managers?
Companies hiring remote contracting managers right now include Oscar Management Corporation, Mercy, and SmithRx, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first firms, government contractors, and distributed technology and healthcare companies are the most consistent hirers of contracting managers in fully remote roles.
Can you get a remote contracting manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level contracting manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to manage vendor relationships and contract timelines without hands-on supervision from day one. Smaller remote-first companies and government subcontractors are more likely to hire into junior contracting roles remotely. Showing familiarity with contract review software, procurement processes, or relevant certifications like CPCM can open doors when direct experience is limited.
Do you need a degree for remote contracting manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh demonstrated contract management experience, knowledge of FAR or commercial contract law, and proficiency with contract lifecycle management platforms alongside or instead of a degree. Certifications such as CPCM or CFCM carry real weight in remote hiring, particularly in government contracting sectors where credentials signal competency that a degree alone may not.
Which industries hire the most remote contracting managers?
Most remote contracting manager openings sit in Insurance, Construction & Real Estate, and Healthcare & Medical Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed procurement and vendor management teams that are structured to operate fully remote without requiring on-site contract administration.
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