Contract Manager

Job Title: Contracts & Strategic Sourcing Manager

Duration: 6 Months contract to Hire Role

Location: Little Rock, AR (hybrid position)

Job Description:

The Clients Contracts and Strategic Sourcing Manager is a hands-on, high visibility role that will require extensive experience across the entire spend management life cycle. Reporting to the Head of Source to Pay, the ideal candidate will be responsible for supplier category strategies, contract reviews and administering the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool. In this role, you will dene best practices to optimize assigned roles.

Qualified as an attorney or trained as a paralegal with foundational knowledge in contract management and 5 years industry experience working as a contracts manager or strategic sourcing manager, supporting the procurement team with legal expertise.

Sourcing expertise: deft negotiator, understands data and spreadsheets, and ability to drive positive change and build strong stakeholder relationships as a “trusted adviser”

Good sense of humor and unflinching attention to detail and willingness to roll-up sleeves and do both tactical and high level strategic work

Experience with relevant tools such as Ironclad, Link Squares (or other comparable CLMs), Zip, Workday and other specific procurement software as well as strong technology background and able to navigate new systems and tools as both a user and administrator

Demonstrated experience collecting and analyzing data, applying principles of financial analysis, aptitude in decision making

Proven ability to engage and influence senior business leadership in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

High customer centricity, business acumen and ambition to contribute towards enhancing the overall domain of program management for contingent workforce and supplier inclusion 10. Project management and process improvement background with exceptional analytical, organization, and problem solving skills; use data to drive recommendations