Senior Specialist Vendor Contracts

Responsibilities

• Takes overall responsibility for the strategic vendor contract management goals of Versiti and implements action items to ensure that those goals are achieved.
• Develops and drives vendor sourcing strategies and projects across Versiti to achieve aggressive cost savings targets.
• Forms strong relationships with internal customers to facilitate communication of cost saving opportunities and collaborative benefits of proposed product/service conversions.
• Creates and administers RFI, RFP, RFQ processes to gather information, evaluate proposals, and recommend suppliers. This includes analyzing data, presenting to upper management, contract development, negotiation, execution and organized handoff to implementation team.
• Delivers positive financial results by developing TCO (total cost ownership) models to monitor and generate long term cost benefits.
• Collaborates with leadership to administer the vendor contract management process by using mechanisms such as review meetings with legal counsel and end user(s) to secure the most advantageous terms for Versiti while mitigating risk; regular reporting to track milestones, status and performance; and timely communication with executive leaders regarding contract details and requests for execution.
• Participates in and/or leads continuous improvement of related business processes.
• Oversight of supplier issues with pricing, quality, and service or system connectivity.
• Participates in supplier QBRs to ensure terms adherence and supplier performance. Jointly works with the Quality Department and Service Line to regularly monitor and track performance of strategic supply partners.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in contract drafting, review, and negotiation.
• Project management specifically with leading cross functional project teams (preferred).
• Paralegal experience (desired).
• Sourcing experience working with vendors and managing RFP / RFQs (preferred).