rhi is recruiting for an experienced Senior Advisor/ Project Manager – Legal Contract Drafting & Strategic Execution, to join our client's team in Houston, TX, on a 3-month contract (possible extension). 

This role is 100% remote based, open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S.  

Role Overview

The Senior Advisor will support the development and execution of our client’s Mobility & Convenience Americas (M&CA) strategic initiatives by delivering high-quality, execution‑ready legal documentation. This role provides hands‑on contract drafting expertise within large, high‑impact transformation and rollout programs, translating agreed commercial and operational positions into precise legal language.

Working closely with legal leadership, business stakeholders, and franchise teams, the Senior Associate will manage contract drafting as a defined workstream—ensuring speed, accuracy, consistency, and disciplined execution under tight timelines.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and driving an end‑to‑end franchise disclosure and franchise rollout project
• Reviewing and coordinating:
• Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs)
• Franchise Agreements
• Related legal and contractual documentation
• Partnering closely with internal business stakeholders and legal teams
• Helping bring structure and momentum to a project that is currently behind schedule
• Supporting documentation that is largely being developed from scratch for a new market and offering

Contract Drafting & Documentation

• Draft, structure, and finalize complex legal documents based on inputs from business, franchise, and legal subject‑matter experts.
• Prepare high‑quality contract drafts, including franchise agreements, schedules, annexes, amendments, renewals, and side letters.
• Translate agreed commercial and operational terms into clear, precise legal language without re‑interpreting business intent.
• Ensure contract quality and hygiene, including consistent definitions, clause logic, cross‑referencing, formatting, and enforceability standards.
• Identify drafting gaps, inconsistencies, or ambiguities and proactively flag issues for resolution.

Redlining & Version Control

• Manage redlines, iterative revisions, and version control efficiently and accurately.
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback at pace while maintaining document integrity and consistency.
• Maintain execution‑ready standards across all long‑form agreements.

Workstream & Stakeholder Management

• Manage contract drafting as a defined workstream, tracking deliverables, timelines, and dependencies.
• Support multiple drafting workstreams in parallel, delivering high‑quality outputs under tight timelines with limited supervision.
• Coordinate across legal, business, and franchise teams to align inputs, close drafting loops, and enable timely execution.
• Operate effectively within broader rollout or transformation programs, contributing disciplined documentation and execution support.

About you:

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Strong project management experience (large‑scale retail, rollout initiatives, or similar preferred)
• Legal, contracts, or paralegal background is ideal
• Proven experience independently drafting complex legal agreements, with primary responsibility for producing execution‑ready documents.
• Strong hands‑on contract drafting background (not limited to review or negotiation support), including long‑form agreements with multiple schedules and annexes.
• Experience drafting commercial legal documents such as franchise agreements, supply agreements, operating agreements, or similarly complex contracts.
• Experience supporting large programs, rollouts, or transformation initiatives, providing structured legal drafting support within broader project timelines.

Key Skills & Capabilities

• Expert legal contract drafting: Ability to independently produce clear, structured, execution‑ready legal documents from provided inputs.
• Legal writing precision: Excellent command of language, definitions, clause construction, and logical flow.
• Contract structure & hygiene mastery: Strong attention to consistency in terminology, cross‑referencing, numbering, schedules, and annexes.
• Redlining & version control: Confident managing multiple iterations, markups, and document comparisons.
• Attention to detail: High accuracy, disciplined quality control, and low tolerance for drafting errors.
• Ability to work from structured inputs: Faithfully convert business or SME guidance into legal language without reinterpretation.
• Document management discipline: Ability to manage parallel drafts, stakeholder feedback cycles, and execution readiness.
• Stakeholder coordination: Effective collaboration with legal, business, and subject‑matter experts.
• Project management capability: Track deliverables, deadlines, dependencies, and progress across drafting workstreams.
• Execution focus: Consistently deliver high‑quality legal documents under tight timelines and evolving inputs.

About rhi

rhi is a professional services provider with global expertise. Tracing our history back to the 19th century, we have spent the last 50 years as a global leader to the energy industry. 

We combine efficient systems and processes with a deep understanding of client challenges and market insight. We work with our clients to deliver information and resources that will support every stage of their operations.  We deliver value to our employees, our clients and the countries that we work in.

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Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

If you believe this opportunity is right for you, please click the ‘Apply ’ button to submit your application. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  At this time, we will only consider applications with valid working rights for the specified country.

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