Contract Specialist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Wellbeing program

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Critical illness coverage

Family benefits

HSA/Dependent Care

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions seeks a Contract Specialist to identify contract workers and small businesses supplying public record data and document acquisition services. You will negotiate terms, support procurement strategies, manage contracts, and maintain provider relationships with government entities.

You will serve as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures, addressing access issues and driving improvements in documentation and collections.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work experience.
• Three to five years of experience in vendor management, vendor relationships, strategic sourcing, or supply chain preferred.
• Understanding of negotiation theory and sourcing concepts, strategies, and practices.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including structuring deals, drafting agreements, mitigating risk, and negotiating.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and project 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, and contract award.
• Draft, administer, and manage contracts, ensuring service-level agreements are met.
• Serve as the point of contact between internal stakeholders and service providers.
• Monitor performance against SLAs and address non-compliance.

Skills

Negotiation

Vendor management

Strategic sourcing

SLA management

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Introduction

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-solving expertise to 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-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 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.

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 degree of business 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.

Benefits

• 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, adoption and 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 to participate in 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.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.

At LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, our businesses span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that provide market-specific solutions. Approximately 11,100 employees in offices throughout the world support our brands by serving customers in more than 190 countries and territories.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions is part of RELX, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com and www.relx.com.