Strategic Contract & Vendor Relations 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

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.