Payroll Contracts Manager , Payroll Vendor Management

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Payroll Department is seeking a Contracts Manager in London. The role involves negotiating and drafting a variety of contracts, providing advice on transactions, and improving processes. Candidates should have strong communication skills, a background in contract management, and a Bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of contracts management experience.
• Experience in negotiating and drafting contracts.
• Desire to grow professionally.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and negotiate various contractual relationships.
• Provide advice to business clients on transactions and processes.
• Support negotiation and contract creation for Payroll suppliers.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Ability to work independently

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Amazon's Payroll Department is looking for a talented Contracts Manager to support our Payroll Operational business. The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a variety of third party contractual relationships, including products and services agreements, software licensing and hosted services agreements, financial services agreements, orders, amendments, and NDAs. As a member of our team you will provide day-to-day advice to business clients on transactions, processes, systems, and internal and external communications, and drive process improvements to simplify transactions from beginning to end.
The candidate must have:
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer focused, detail driven, and professional demeanor;
· A passion for building trust with internal and external stakeholders by being proactive and innovative in solving problems that affect stakeholders and customers;
· A proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload;
· The ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment, reacting with appropriate urgency to situations and events that require a quick response or turnaround, and taking effective action without knowing the whole picture;
· A desire to grow professionally as the role’s responsibility grows rapidly with the business; and
· Common sense, great judgment and a good sense of humor.
Basic qualifications
• 3+ years of contracts management, leading contract negotiations and redlining/drafting contracts within a law firm, legal department or inhouse/outsourcing environment
• Ability to invent, simplify and improve legal and contracting processes
• Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred qualifications
• Experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating the legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects at once and work independently
• Strong analytical and computer skills
• Experience of HRO/BPO and or Payroll Outsourcing is a positive


Key job responsibilities
Working with Vendor Managers and stakeholders to support negotiation and contract creation for Payroll suppliers to Amazon

1. Work on negotiations with appropriate suppliers
2. Support contracting content and creation
3. Work with VM,Finance, Procurement, Legal and business stakeholders to ensure accurate contract creation
4. Support commercial and financial negotiations to ensure cost frugality

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of transactional accounting field experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience of Payroll and or Payroll Outsourcing or Client Account Management in a HRO environment

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