Contracts Analyst

Interior Health; Kelowna; Hybrid; CAD 74,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking an experienced Contracts Analyst in Kelowna. The role involves managing contracts, analyzing resources, and ensuring adherence to health and safety standards. Applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience, along with strong analytical and data management skills. The position offers competitive compensation with a salary range of $74,618 to $107,264 and various employee benefits including paid training and health coverage.

Benefits

Employee & Family Assistance Program

Employer paid training/education opportunities

Employer paid vacation

Employer paid insurance premiums

Extended health & dental coverage

Municipal Pension Plan

Work-life balance

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement or Computer Information Services required.
• Three years of experience relevant to the duties of this position expected.
• Ability to interpret and present data effectively.

Responsibilities

• Gather financial and statistical information for contract analysis.
• Support contract renewal process for key portfolios.
• Develop workflow process to increase efficiencies.

Skills

Customer service orientation

Innovative participation

Strong analytical ability

Excellent computer skills

Ability to multi-task

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, or Computer Information Services

Three years of relevant experience

Tools

Data manipulation tools

Job description

Position Summary

Interior Health is looking for an experienced Contracts Analyst to join our team on a full time permanent basis.

This position offers a flexible work location from within the Interior Health region, but will require in office attendance in Kelowna as and when required.

What we offer:

• Employee & Family Assistance Program
• Employer paid training/education opportunities
• Employer paid vacation
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended health & dental coverage
• Municipal Pension Plan
• Work-life balance

Salary Range:

Salary range for the position is $74,618 to $107,264. Interior Health establishes salaries within the minimum and maximum of the salary range based on consideration of the qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

About the job:

In accordance with the established vision and values of the organization, the Contracts Analyst is responsible for ensuring a strong integration of information and issue management between both the Strategic and Operations aspects of Contracted Services. The Contracts Analyst will coordinate an effective forecasting mechanism to assist in the department’s ability to adjust and commit resources toward department and IH organizational priorities. The position will support the contract analysis of key portfolios, manage contract planning, risk rating process, support process mapping of key processes and work with IMIT on maintenance improvement requests.

Typical duties and responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering financial and statistical information for contract analysis, distribution and preparing reports.
• Responsible for a risk registry report of contracts by portfolio.
• Supports contract renewal process for key portfolios along with the Strategic Business Consultants.
• Coordinates data for use in the regular reporting cycle and planning/forecasting tools.
• Develops/designs workflow process and implements automation/innovation of systems where possible to increase efficiencies.
• Prepares ad hoc reports and assists in the development of new reports to meet the changing needs of the organization.
• Reviews plans for allocating resources and contract recommendations prepared by others and adjusts the department planning accordingly.
• Reconciles data to ensure accuracy.
• Coordinates process control documents and prepares customer facing process documents including internal & external webpages.
• Provides input on new and existing policies and processes in conjunction with Contracted Services Strategic Business Consultants, Coordinator, and makes recommendations to the Director, Contracted Services and clients on issues that relate to both strategic and day-to-day operations of IH.
• In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).

Qualifications

Education, Training, and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement or Computer Information Services, other relevant designation, or currently working towards completion.
• Three years of experience relevant to the duties of this position.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Skills and Abilities

• work times and assignments.
• Customer service orientation with the ability to be innovative and participate with others to reach organizational objectives.
• Experience working in an organization of similar size and complexity in a role that required awareness of the structure and how to navigate through it to ensure internal clients were provided efficient and effective service.
• Ability to participate on a multi-disciplinary team and ensure deadlines and milestones are met.
• Ability to adapt and produce high quality results in a constantly changing and developing environment.
• Ability to multi-task and perform numerous tasks for various clients within acceptable time frames,
• Excellent computer skills in order to access and manipulate data from various systems to produce financial and other reports.
• Strong analytical ability to meaningfully interpret and present data.
• Understanding of the full contracting cycle including the payment & termination processes.
• Understanding of the full accounting and budgeting cycle.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.