What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contract Administrator position at Abbott?
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
About Abbott
The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.
Our location in Lake Forest, IL currently has an opportunity for a Contract Administrator. This role will provide administrative, analytical, and procedural support to internal and external customers on behalf of the Contract Administration Department. This role acts as a liaison between account executives, regional sales directors, directors of national accounts, and others in processing and administration of sales contracts.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Ensure timely processing of sales contracts
- Negotiate and draft contract terms and conditions in accordance with corporate policies
- Analyze potential risks that contract changes may pose to the organization
- Present and explain contract conditions and details to customers, business partners, and management
- Resolve any existing contract conflicts
- Work with different levels of personnel within an organization to analyze and solidify an overall contract strategy
- Independently support one or more sales regions in regards to full contract management
- Acts as a resource to the sales organization in regard to current pricing and contracting policies and programs
- Participate in and prepare for contracting strategy meetings
- Perform database maintenance on an ongoing basis to insure accurate reporting
- Assist in updating departmental SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
- Meet deadlines and update clients with status
- Utilize data from the company’s CRM system to generate reports, analyze data, and track product and ordering patterns
- Interface with internal fulfillment group and distributors to establish working relationships, assure proper end-user pricing and contract effective dates are loaded
- Understands and is aware of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job; has awareness of device defects that may occur in their area of responsibility, including product design, verification and validation, manufacturing and testing activities
- Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal / external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices; build productive internal / external working relationships
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING
Required
WHAT WE OFFER
At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer :
