Contract Governance
Protect your margin and reduce risk as spend scales
As agency partnerships scale, complexity increases. Without strong governance, margin erodes, risk accumulates, and renewals are driven by urgency rather than strategy.
Back to Black ensures your agency agreements scale in a controlled, transparent, and commercially disciplined way.
We do not simply manage contracts. We protect value.
Defining effective contract governance
Contract governance is about control, consistency, and visibility as spend scales. Back to Black focuses on ensuring your agency trading agreements are structured, monitored, and renewed in a way that protects long-term value.
Auditing your existing agreements to ensure revenue and margin are fully realised
Managing your renegotiations and standardise commercial terms to reduce risk
Implementing tracking and reporting so performance is always visible
Managing end of year recons efficiently to support finance and accelerate renewals
How we do it
Having set up and managed hundreds of agency agreements, we understand where margin erosion occurs and how to mitigate it. We will go through each of your trading agreements in detail with your legal, finance and commercial teams, highlighting inconsistencies and opportunities to strengthen commercial performance.
We will then take agreed changes forward with the agencies on your behalf, manage the discussion through to signature, and ensure updates are formally executed.
Finally, we put in place a clear system that allows the leadership team and the commercials teams to see how each agreement is performing over time and identify opportunities to accelerate performance.
Results you can expect
Better
Greater
Fewer
Clearer
Improved consistency across markets and agreements
Improved consistency across markets and agreements
Enhanced margin protection as agency spend increases
Reduced disputes, faster renewals, and lower commercial risk
A trusted partner to take your business from red to black