SDI is looking to expand our Contract Management Team by hiring a Contract Manager who will be actively responsible for managing all the contractual related tasks of our process on behalf our clients. This individual will be responsible for the end-to-end contract management for SDI’s supplier enablement process, which consists mainly of gathering key information about the services to be provided, analyzing and negotiating contracts with redline exchanges, coordinating the involved parties and specialized teams within the agreement negotiation, leading internal and multi-party meetings, ensure contract language compliance, ensure SMEs approvals are gathered. The candidate will have direct contact with Supplier’s Point of Contact, Client Stakeholders, Client Management, SDI’s Management.
Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Lead our Contract Management Teams, supporting multiple regions.
• Lead contract facilitation process for contracts.
• Serve as primary escalation point for contract administrators and contract analyst (internal) for template questions,
redlines to contract terms, and other process items.
• Oversee the facilitation of an upward of 20+ contracts at any given time.
• Support contract executions in a timely method with appropriate legal oversight to ensure compliance with company standards and SLA’s.
• Coordinate redlines and negotiation strategies with legal and other stakeholders as well as suppliers.
• Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders.
• Manage escalations in the Supplier enablement or contracting process (external and internal stakeholders).
• Complete gap analysis, review, redline and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language.
• Defend legal terms on standard internal templates, agreements and third-party paper where necessary.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure excelle