Contract/Sourcing Specialist

Sun Technologies Inc; Blue Ash (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Technologies Inc in Blue Ash, Ohio, is seeking a candidate with contract negotiation experience to manage technology contracts. The role involves drafting summaries, reviewing requests, and ensuring compliance with company policies.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in a business or legal-oriented major and at least 3 years of relevant experience in establishing supplier contracts. Proficiency in tools like MS Word and Docusign is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience establishing supplier contracts.
• Proven ability to make significant decisions with supervision.
• Ability to travel independently.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret lower risk technology contracts.
• Review contract requests and determine sourcing personnel.
• Draft contract summaries for electronic signatures.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Document comparison

Vendor performance review

Proficiency in MS Word

Business Object knowledge

Education

Bachelor degree in business or legal-oriented major

Tools

Docusign

Access

Job description

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret lower risk technology contracts and facilitate redlining and negotiation of business terms in accordance with established policies and guidelines for the same.
• Review incoming requests for contract, contract renewals, and negotiation to determine the appropriate sourcing personnel to manage the request.
• Run comparisons of documents to record changes that were made, if any, and coordinate with sourcing ASP to get finalized contracts launched for digital signature.
• Draft contract summaries to accompany requests for electronic signature, identifying key metrics for compliance that must be recorded upon upload to contract database tool.
• Meet regularly with Contract Manager to review workload and progress as well as discuss challenges and identify areas of learning opportunities.
• Serve as liaison between technology partners and legal, when legal review is required.
• Review product/service quality and vendor performance as part of contract compliance.
• Identify areas of non-compliance.
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• Report savings and cost avoidance achievements through sourcing department tools when achieving savings/cost avoidance as a result of contract negotiations.

Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Minimum Position Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience establishing supplier contracts using: technology and business standards, RFPs, and other specifications (L6).
• Proven ability to frequently make significant decisions with supervision (L6).
• Proficiency of relevant tools (i.e. Comparison/redline tools in MS Word, Docusign, Access)
• Ability to learn various operating systems (i.e. Business Objects, Site Folio).
• Ability to travel independently

Desired Previous Experience

Bachelor degree in business or legal-oriented major

Experience with contracts, in particular technology agreements ll be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.