Contract Specialist

Nextens; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Wellness program

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Volunteer time / PTO for ERGs

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Contract Specialist to identify and engage contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses that provide public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services.

You will negotiate terms, support procurement strategies, manage contracts, and serve as a subject matter expert on court systems and procedures, while building cross-functional relationships across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience.
• Three to five years of experience in vendor management, vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, or supply chain is preferred.
• Understanding of negotiation theory and sourcing concepts, strategies, and practices.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience structuring deals, drafting agreements, mitigating risk, and negotiating.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, judgment, analytical, customer service, interpersonal, group, and project and task management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies to establish and sustain a service-provider network for public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services.
• Identify and implement cost-containment and cost-reduction strategies.
• Manage procurement processes for contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses, including RFIs, RFPs, RFBs, bid vetting, negotiations, evaluation against vendor-selection criteria, bid approval, and contract award.
• Draft, administer, and manage contracts, ensuring service-level agreements are met.
• Serve as the ongoing point of contact for communications between internal stakeholders and service providers.
• Monitor service-provider performance against SLAs, including service volume, quality, and timeliness, and address non-compliance.
• Manage contract renewal, renegotiation, recertification, cancellation, and breach-of-contract processes.
• Act as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures, and build relationships with government entities.
• Resolve court-access issues that inhibit public record collection.
• Identify procedural and system process improvements.
• Compile and maintain state-, county-, and court-specific collection information using established templates.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and collaborate across departments and business units.
• Travel up to 5%.

Skills

Negotiation theory

Sourcing concepts

Financial acumen

Communication skills

Problem solving

attention to detail

Project management

Independent work

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

PowerPoint

Job description

Are you skilled at building strong service-provider relationships and negotiating agreements that support critical operations?

Would you like to apply contract management, sourcing, and problem-solvingexpertiseto public record data and document acquisition services?

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/.

About Our Team

Our Data Services court operations team supports public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services. The team works with internal stakeholders, service providers, and government entities to maintain reliable service delivery, address court access issues, and improve collection processes and documentation.

About the Role

As a Contract Specialist, you will identify and engage contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses that provide public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services. You will negotiate terms, support procurement strategies, manage contracts and ongoing provider relationships, and serve as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies to establish and sustain a service-providernetwork for publicrecord data and document acquisition, verification, and related services.

• Identify and implement cost-containment and cost-reduction strategies.

• Manage procurement processes for contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses, including RFIs, RFPs, RFBs, bid vetting, negotiations, evaluation against vendor-selection criteria, bid approval, and contract award in accordance with established department guidelines.

• Draft, administer, and manage contracts, ensuring service-level agreements are met.

• Serve as the ongoing point of contact for communications between internal stakeholders and service providers.

• Monitor service-provider performance against service-level agreements, including service volume, quality, and timeliness, and address non-compliance.

• Manage contract renewal, renegotiation, recertification, cancellation, and breach-of-contract processes in accordance with established department guidelines.

• Act as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures, and build and maintain relationships with government entities.

• Resolve court-access issues that inhibit public record collection.

• Identify procedural and system process improvements.

• Compile and maintain state-, county-, and court-specific collection information using established best-practice documentation templates and protocols.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships and collaborate effectively across departments and business units.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Travel up to 5%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience.

• Three to five years of experience in a related role, such as vendor management, vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, or supply chain, is strongly preferred.

• Understanding of negotiation theory and sourcing concepts, strategies, and practices.

• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience structuring deals, drafting agreements, mitigating risk, and negotiating.

• Strong coordination, attention to detail, problem-solving, and planning skills.

• High degreeofbusiness ethics, accountability, professionalism, and confidentiality.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, judgment, analytical, customer service, interpersonal, group, and project and task management skills.

• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Adaptability, willingness to learn new enterprise applications quickly, and ability to support change.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

• Collaborative team approach and ability to serve as a positive role model and catalyst for change.

Working for You

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan

• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity

• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves,adoptionand surrogacy benefits

• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each toparticipatein Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $53,900 - $89,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

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