Contract Specialist managing procurement, negotiations, and supplier performance for Yara’s nitrogen fertilizer plant. Supporting maintenance, construction, and capital projects in Belle Plaine.
About the role
- Senior Contract Specialist reviewing, negotiating, and executing contracts for Cencora’s healthcare services business. Supporting compliance, legal risk management, bids, and pricing processes.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely contract review for business units
- Prepare, review, and interpret contracts for adequacy, appropriateness, completeness, and legal or business risk
- Explain legal terms and conditions to managers, directors, senior management, and other stakeholders
- Interact with clients and vendors
- Negotiate contracts and subcontracts
- Gather and maintain contract approvals
- Coordinate contract execution
- Escalate concerns and needs to the legal group while following corporate legal processes
- Modify and evaluate template contracts and tools with procurement and legal teams
- Collaborate with business units, Operations, Legal, Finance, IT, and regional subject matter experts
- Provide consistent and reliable content for customer contract requests, information requests, and presentations
- Use compliance tools, reports, and scorecards to monitor compliance and contract performance
- Resolve content and context inconsistencies across contracts, bids, information requests, proposals, and pricing structures
- Follow ABC and Innomar legal requirements and legal and financial SOPs
- Perform order entry for executed agreements
- Assist with content library loading processes in corporate database programs
- Perform related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Training and understanding in business administration, accountancy, legal, sales, marketing, computer sciences, or similar vocations
- Four-year Bachelor's Degree Program or comparable on-the-job training and work responsibilities in administrative duties
- 3–5 years of direct experience in a contracting environment
- Understanding of legal and health system trends and operating assumptions
- Ability to work independently and confidently manage negotiations
- Ability to provide advice to Operations and staff to drive contract performance and compliance
- Experience drafting and reviewing contracts
- Analytical skills related to contract information and related matters
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to balance business objectives and opportunities against legal and other risks/requirements
- Customer-service orientation
- Keen attention to detail and ability to spot issues and errors
- Ability to multitask and manage time effectively
- Ability to work efficiently in a high-pressure environment with tight deadlines
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Excellent integration and implementation skills
- Working knowledge of computers and software programs, especially Excel
- Willingness to do minimal travel as required
- Legal background with 1–2 years of law clerk/training/certification experience preferred but not required
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision care
- Backup dependent care
- Adoption assistance
- Infertility coverage
- Family building support
- Behavioral health solutions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- Training programs
- Professional development resources
- Mentorship programs
- Employee resource groups
- Volunteer activities
- Reasonable workplace accommodations
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