Specialist, Contracts

Specialist, Contracts Job Description

Role Summary

Develops, coordinates, and administers contracts for products and/or services for SAFE. Negotiate, extend, and renegotiate contracts as appropriate. Monitors existing contracts for compliance with terms and conditions.

Functional Accountability

• Contributes to achieving the department's strategic objectives through performing own responsibilities and managing direct reports' performance.
• Negotiates establishes, and administers contracts.
• Evaluates or monitor contractor performance to determine the necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Analyses price proposals, financial reports, and other data to determine the reasonableness of prices; reviews and interprets contract provisions to achieve cost efficiencies and reductions where feasible.
• Ensures that contracts are executed in accordance with corporate guidelines.
• Ensures contracts and proposals are properly entered into databases and securely maintained.
• Performs risk analysis review for all contractual documents and recommends mitigating options.
• Facilitates the contract close-out procedures to ensure that all terms and conditions of contracts have been complied with before the final payment contract closing.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Business administration. Accounting, Finance, and Law
• Minimum Years of Relevant Experience +3 years.

Core Competency

Dependability

• Self-driven and takes action proactively.
• Pursues goals with persistence and stamina, works on tasks thoroughly, ensuring accuracy and meeting standards.
• Maintains high levels of quality and effectiveness of work outputs and achieves outstanding results

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Collaboration

• Collaborates constructively with people at all levels across the organization.
• Helps colleagues, always be available to the team, and delivers on team commitments.
• Trusts the guidance and direction of colleagues and senior members of the team
• Examines, evaluates, and analyses different types of information objectively.

Analytical Thinking

• Spots trends and patterns, establishes key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
• Provides insights and identifies ways to improve things. Trusts intuition about which methods will work best.

Effective Communication

• Listens attentively and seeks to understand before being understood.
• Explains things clearly and articulates and presents information effectively and confidently.
• Challenges ideas effectively and presents persuasive arguments by presenting a strong case.

Functional Competency

Contract and Tender Management

• Manages the end-to-end tendering and contracting process utilizing data management techniques, including the publishing and management of requests for proposals (RfP), commercial evaluation, negotiation, and selection of vendors and drafting, enforcing and renewing/terminating contracts.

Negotiation and Influence

• Engages in discussion to reach an agreement and create outcomes, affecting the action, behaviours, or opinions of others.

Procurement needs Planning

• Ability to perform strategic analysis to identify future procurement needs that accomplish SAFE goals, plan purchase orders, and manage procurement budget.

Relevant Laws and Regulations

• Maintains current knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements relevant to own fields, such as regulatory framework, standards, and procedures.

Job ID 300000284627758