Senior Contract Manager

Job Title: Senior Contracts Manager

Location: Mercer County, New Jersey (4 days onsite)

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain relationships with strategic partners including finance, procurement, risk compliance, legal, facilities, etc.
• Manage complex multi-million dollar architect-engineer and construction agreements.
• Lead sourcing activities for design, construction and related services utilizing various data (previous spend, previous supplier performance, etc.), market information and operational objectives to deliver long-term value.
• Lead supplier negotiations, analyze proposals, and facilitate competitive bidding events.
• Review documents to support and promote supplier diversity and selection process.
• Create detailed bid/proposal comparison documents for selection team members.
• Manage and lead a team of contract administrators.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain management, economics, finance, operations, business or related area.
• 5 to 7 years in procurement, contract administration or other relevant supply chain management or business position.
• Experience with construction/design or facilities contracts.
• Analytical skills to quickly gather facts, perform root cause analysis, and draw conclusions.
• Extensive experience managing change across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Excellent communication- oral, written, and interpersonal skills for interaction with team members and stakeholders.
• Experience drafting contract language and/or procurement policies and procedures.
• Experience with Source to Pay lifecycle tools and processes including leading practices.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

• Supervisory experience - preferred
• CPM or CPSM certification- preferred
• Experience with Jaggaer eProcurement tools - preferred
• Experience with SRM - preferred

Benefits:

• Excellent Healthcare- dental, vision, medical
• 401k Match
• PTO & Holidays
• Education Reimbursement
• And more!