Senior Contract Management Analyst - Hybrid, Pittsburgh PA

Essential Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor all in-scope contracts and agreements.
• Monitor contracts, terms, earn-backs, penalties, etc. through metrics, dashboards and frequent reporting.
• Oversee contractual relationships and related issues and risks.
• Cook up and liaise with other functions and related external constituents.
• Coordinate with internal legal, finance, audit, business, operations, regulatory, compliance, privacy, and other units as necessary for contract related tasks.
• Participate in governance forums and provide guidance on contractual / commercial issues.
• Collaboratively work with other functions to ensure timely handling of all contractual issues, disputes, escalations, etc.
• Cook up and actively manage identified contract risks.
• Manage ongoing administration of in-scope contracts and agreements.
• Participate in key client contract definition, and finalization activities.
• Aid in defining amendments and additional SOWs.
• Ensure business owners review all financial and commercial terms in contract change requests and ensure compliance with business strategy.
• Manage execution and implementation of amendments, additions, deletions to all contract documents.
• Manage contract review, approval and contract signature process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Management or Pre-law or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree.
• 5 years of experience in Contract administration.
• Master's degree in Finance, Business Management or Law preferred.
• 3 years of experience in Negotiation Skills preferred.
• Meaningful experience in contract and commercial management – i.e., development, execution and management of strategic client contracts, business cases, scenario planning / modeling and financial / commercial risk analysis preferred.
• Ability to manage through ambiguity and a matrixed environment preferred.
• Good Commercial and legal understanding of services contracts preferred.
• Excellent relationship building and relationship management skills preferred.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (both oral and written) preferred.
• Ability to manage and monitor outstanding tasks preferred.
• Strong project management and effective time management skills preferred.