Service Contract Administrator - Contractor
About the role
This role is a contract assignment at Palo Alto Networks. Contractors will not be employed by Palo Alto Networks but through our trusted staffing partners. The CyberArk Service Contract Administrator's primary responsibility is managing and overseeing service scope requests and contracts.
Responsibilities
- Managing Scoping Cases: Manage service scoping cases queue, tracking all communications and request status. Review, prioritize, and respond to service scope requests promptly. Triage and escalate requests to relevant stakeholders per policy and SLA
- Preparing Contracts & Documents: Generate and update service scoping documents, maintaining current and accurate records of all relevant documents
- Monitoring Compliance & Risks: Review service contracts and agreements for compliance with the company's preferred standard policies, identifying variances. Track changes, comments, approvals, and versions of all generated scoping documents. Identify and analyze potential risks involved with specific contract terms and make recommendations to mitigate those risks
- Negotiating Terms: Negotiating contract terms with internal and external stakeholders. Participate in meetings with Customers, Partners, Legal, Finance, Sales, and Security Services leads to maintain open lines of communication and facilitate efficient and accurate resolution of standard and non-standard requests
- Monitoring & Reporting: Report of services scope request volumes and non-standard escalation to management and Sales teams
- Maintaining Records: Develop and refine service templates and assist in creating and updating standard languages and guidelines for service contracts and runbooks. Process & Systems Improvements: Assist in planning, designing, and implementing business systems and tools to optimize processes and procedures and to enhance efficiency, quality, and output
- Enablement: Educate and train the Sales and Go-to-Market team on procedures and guidelines for service scope requests through daily communications, presentations, and recurring training sessions
- Assist manager on other related functional initiatives as necessary
Requirements
- Experience in a fast-paced enterprise environment with a focus on client management, customer service, and operations is strongly preferred
- Experience in the Salesforce CRM platform preferred
- Experience with legal terms and conditions and contract administration preferred
- Great interpersonal skills; ability to communicate to different target audiences and work effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Proficient in typing and computer skills, including fluency with word processing, spreadsheet, database, and PowerPoint programs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented and strong organizational skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage workflows, projects, and deadlines effectively and timely
- Demonstrate leadership by actively engaging in process, tool, and procedure improvements. Willingness to participate in and provide feedback to new initiatives
- Proactive and able to assist the sales process by identifying opportunities and coordinating actions between the customer and the sales team
- A focus on execution with the ability to work independently and initiate administrative improvements; needs limited guidance from supervisor
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Pay
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer, this is the pay range that Magnit (the staffing agency) reasonably expects to pay for this position: $43/hour to $48/hour. Please note that the compensation information in this posting reflects the hourly wage only and does not include benefits. Magnit offers Medical, Dental, Vision and 401K.
Schedule
Location - USA (Remote), Duration - 6 months