Contracts Manager, Global Corporate Procurement
DESCRIÇÃO
At Amazon, our vision is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our passion for invention leads us to pioneer and globalize new businesses and customer offerings daily. As we rapidly become the world’s largest consumer of corporate services in many categories, the Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Contracts Manager to join our team to manage negotiations and documentation of a variety of third party contractual relationships in spend categories to include: Professional Services, Benefits, HR Services, Travel, Tax, Legal, Marketing, Technology, and Construction.
Contract Managers play an important role at Amazon, responsible for managing the full end-to-end contract strategy, which will include formulating the commercial deal terms, and representing the business while interfacing with the Legal team through to the conclusion of the contracting process. The ability to orchestrate multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills will be important in the day to day responsibilities of this role within the Global Corporate Procurement department. The Contract Managers are expert practitioners in formulating strong legal positions both pre and post business award. They will work efficiently and independently, managing a high volume of tasks and projects with little guidance, react with appropriate urgency to matters which require a quick turnaround, and think creatively and proactively in order to solve problems.
This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a team that is having a daily impact on company success.
Primary responsibilities of this role:
- Operates with significant autonomy and discretion in communicating with Legal, the Business and Global Category Managers.
- Influences at all levels of leadership, both internally and externally, to deliver results.
- Serves as the principal subject matter expert in all Amazon standard contracts, and almost all external contracts.
- Negotiates MSA, MHSA, MPA, PSA, Statements of Work, Work Orders, LOI, MOU, Term Sheets, used by the Global Corporate Procurement organization, including legal practice standards and fallback guidelines set by the Legal Department.
- Acts as a subject matter expert for the organization in the application of the Amazon Spending and Transaction Policy and in Amazon’s contract approval processes.
- Proactively monitors major contracts for renewals, SLAs, KPI attainment and other time-based or performance-based triggers that could impact the business.
- Develops contract practice standards, operating procedures and systems that enable the broader team of Global Category Managers to scale and work more efficiently and effectively.
- Orchestrates the end-to-end process from kickoff to full execution. Communicate these results through weekly metrics reporting.
- Gaining executive stakeholder input on complex projects, framing issues simply and concisely to obtain buy-off to move forward with key decisions/initiatives.
QUALIFICAÇÕES BÁSICAS
- 7+ years of relevant contracts management experience, to include at minimum, 5 years of project management and negotiation experience with primary and autonomous responsibility for reviewing; and negotiating a broad range of standard commercial contracts within a Procurement, Legal or Law Firm Department.
QUALIFICAÇÕES PREFERÍVEIS
- Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines, and meeting management skills.
- Extensive knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.
- Experienced at assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to both legal and non-legal professionals.
- Extremely customer-focused, taking the time to understand the needs of the business and legal.
- Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries.
- Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to quickly move contracts to closure.
- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.
- Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics. - Master’s Degree (MBA/MS) preferred.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $203,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.