Contracts Specialist, NBCU News Group

About NBCUniversal News Group and News Group Legal: NBCUniversal News Group includes NBC News, Telemundo Network, and NBC and Telemundo Local Stations. Across digital and television platforms, the News Group reaches more Americans than any other news organization. With bureaus around the world and across the United States, NBC News reaches audiences through broadcast television, digital, streaming, and audio platforms. Its leading, award-winning news broadcasts include TODAY, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. NBC News NOW is a leading free, ad-supported news streaming channel, and NBC News has several direct-to-consumer businesses, including ShopTODAY. With 42 NBC and Telemundo television stations in local markets across the country, NBCU Local reaches nearly 50% of U.S. households. Its local stations produce news programming, watched by an estimated 17 million monthly viewers, and popular lifestyle shows in their markets. Telemundo Network produces and distributes Spanish-language news, sports, and entertainment content to audiences around the world, reaching 94% of the U.S. Hispanic audience. Its award-winning news programs include Hoy Día, Noticias Telemundo, and Al Rojo Vivo. The News Group Legal team provides editorial, transactional, and production legal support to all News Group businesses and newsrooms. The team is primarily based at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with attorneys also located in Miami and Washington, D.C. Role Overview: NBCUniversal News Group is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented Contracts Specialist to join the Commercial Transactions News Legal team. This non-attorney role will provide legal operations, contracts, and administrative support to in-house commercial transactions attorneys across a broad range of commercial agreements. The successful candidate will be comfortable managing a high volume of contract requests, exercising sound judgment, and communicating effectively with internal stakeholders and external counterparties in a fast-paced environment. Key Responsibilities: Support Commercial Transactions News Legal attorneys with day-to-day legal operations and administrative tasks across the full contract lifecycle Draft, review, revise, and manage commercial agreements and related documents, including vendor, technology, e-commerce, events, licensing, services, statements of work, work orders, amendments, and renewals, independently using approved templates and playbooks or in collaboration with attorneys Prepare contract summaries, redlines, signature packets, and related correspondence for attorney review Coordinate the team’s matter intake process, triage contract requests, and help attorneys prioritize matters to support timely and efficient service to the business Maintain the contract lifecycle management system and related records, ensuring accurate tracking of key dates, deadlines, renewals, obligations, and status updates Use contract management technology and awareness of legal operations developments (including use of AI) to identify practical, business-oriented solutions to deal-related issues Maintain and update standard contract templates and develop improvements to processes Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative, and service-oriented team culture