Sourcing & Cat Enablement Senior Analyst

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor of Laws
• •Master Of Law
• •5 to 8 years Years of Experience
• •Legal degree with between 4 years of experience, or relevant contract management experience required with between 6 years of experience
• •In depth experience working with a variety of contract types (i.e. preparing, reviewing and negotiating) and contract processes
• •Be able to identify legal risk in various contract types
• •Must be able to recognize, identify and clearly be able to explain business and convey legal positions
• •Impactful experience working within cross-functional and/or global teams of contracting and / or procurement professionals and aligning with established performance expectations
• •Internal stakeholder management
• •data/information management
• •category management
• •process review
• •project management
• •performance reporting skills
• •Procurement process knowledge
• •contract management
• •supplier analysis
• •supplier diversity
• •supplier management
• •technology utilization experience
• •Experience responding to inquiries regarding contract obligations and redlines/revisions
• •Demonstrated a results driven approach, in a team setting where team members are not directly located within the same geography
• •Strong client management skills
• •Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Word
• •Contract Negotiations
• •Contract Modifications
• •Contract Performance & Reporting
• •Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• •Dashboard Reporting
• •Performance Analytics
• •Cateogry Strategies
• •Category Management Strategy
• •Process Improvements
• •Program project Management
• •Supplier analysis & Selection
• •Supply Chain Execution
• •client Management
• •Microsoft office Suite
• •Stakeholder Management
• •Cross-Team Collaboration
• •Written and Verbal Communication
• •Collaboration and Interpersonal Skills
• •Negotiation skills
• •Draft and negotiate contracts based on client templates, in a timely manner with appropriate legal support to ensure compliance with client standards
• •Past experience with drafting agreements in following areas: IT, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, MRO
• •Coordinate and perform contract analysis, including redlines and negotiations with client legal and other stakeholders, as well as suppliers to: Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate, and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders
• •Complete gap analyses, review, redline, and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language
• •Draft commercial terms as needed
• •Prepare and disseminate information regarding contract status, compliance and modifications as well as partnering with cross-functional teams to maintain effective contracting procedures and ensuring adherence to regional/global category strategies
• •Consulting and escalating positioning issues which are not solved satisfactorily by the project team in a timely manner
• •Ensure that at all times written guidelines and client policies are followed and/or required SME input is obtained throughout the process (eg, privacy, finance, international and domestic taxation, customs and trade, information security, systems quality, software asset management, etc.)
• •Manage multiple projects independently with the ability to resolve negotiation issues in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate and push a deal through to execution
• •Manage projects within Accenture's proprietary or client workflow tools to document each step of the contract formation process
• •Maintenance and facilitation of records including updates, amendments and archiving of inactive contracts based on client schedule and requests
• •Enable Contract content and Load Contracts / Agreements as per schedule / approved client requests

Desired Qualifications

• •Procurement process knowledge
• •Experience with contract reporting desirable (i.e. total number of contracts, number of suppliers under contract, and other indicators) to assess progress and effectiveness of the contract function
• •Specific experience within the Pharma industry highly desirable