Procurement Practice Specialist

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What would you do?

What are we looking for?

• Draft and negotiate contracts based on both client templates and supplier templates, in a timely manner with appropriate legal support to ensure compliance with client standards;
• Strong subject matter expertise in drafting agreements in following areas: IT, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, MRO. Specific experience within the Pharma industry highly desirable;
• Coordinate and perform contract analysis, including redlines and negotiations with client legal and other stakeholders, as well as suppliers to: ? Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate, and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders. ? Complete gap analyses, review, redline, and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language. ? Draft commercial terms as needed.
• Prepare and disseminate information regarding contract status, compliance, modifications, with the ability to work within cross-functional teams to maintain contracting procedures and ensuring adherence to regional/goal category strategies;
• Consulting and escalating positioning issues which are not solved satisfactorily to the project team in a timely manner;
• Act as a contact between the project tea
• Legal degree required with a minimum of 6 years of experience or relevant contract management experience required with a minimum of 8 years of experience;
• Be able to identify legal risk in various contract types;
• In depth experience working with a variety of contract types (i.e. preparing, reviewing and negotiating) and contract processes (i.e. implementation, etc.); Roles and Responsibilities:
• Must be able to recognize, identify and clearly be able to explain business and convey legal positions;
• Impactful experience working within cross-functional and/or global teams of contracting and / or procurement professionals and aligning with established performance expectations;
• Internal stakeholder management, data/information management, category management, process design and continuous improvement initiatives, project management and performance measurement skills;
• Procurement process knowledge, contract management, market analysis, supplier analysis, supplier diversity, technology utilization, strategic planning, and integrated supply chain experience is an advantage;
• Experience with contract reporting necessary (i.e. total number of contracts, number of suppliers under contract, and other indicators) to assess progress and effectiveness of the contract function;
• Experience responding to inquiries regarding contract obligations and redlines/revisions;
• Demonstrated a results driven approach, in a team setting where team members are not directly located within the same geography;
• Strong client management skills;
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Word.