Senior Contract Specialist
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Senior Contract Specialist reviewing, negotiating, and executing contracts for Cencora’s healthcare services business. Ensuring legal compliance, risk management, and contract performance across internal teams and vendors.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely contract review to meet business-unit needs
- Prepare, review, and interpret contracts for adequacy, appropriateness, completeness, and legal or business risk
- Confirm adherence to Innomar/ABC processes and requirements
- Explain legal terms and conditions to managers, directors, senior management, and other interested parties
- Interact with clients and vendors
- Negotiate contracts and subcontracts
- Gather and maintain approvals for applicable contracts
- Coordinate contract execution
- Escalate concerns and needs to the legal group while following defined Corporate Legal processes
- Modify and evaluate template contracts and tools with procurement and legal teams
- Collaborate with Business Units, Operations, Legal, Finance, IT, and other subject-matter experts on contract-related content and responses
- Use compliance tools, reports, and scorecards to monitor compliance and contract performance
- Resolve content and context inconsistencies across contracts, bids, information requests, proposals, and pricing structures
- Follow ABC and Innomar legal requirements and legal and financial SOPs and training
- Perform order-entry functions for executed agreements
- Assist with content-library loading processes in corporate database programs
- Perform related duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Training and understanding in business administration, accountancy, legal, sales, marketing, computer sciences, or similar vocations, generally obtained through completion of a four-year Bachelor's Degree Program or comparable on-the-job training and work responsibilities in administrative duties
- Direct experience in a contracting environment of at least 3–5 years
- Understanding of legal and health system trends and operating assumptions
- Law clerk/training/certification experience of 1–2 years preferred but not required
- Ability to work independently and confidently manage negotiations
- Experience providing advice to Operations and staff to drive contract performance and compliance
- Experience drafting and reviewing contracts
- Analytical skills related to contract information and related matters
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to balance business objectives and opportunities against legal and other risks/requirements
- Customer-service orientation and a “Can do” attitude
- Keen attention to detail and ability to identify issues and errors
- Ability to multitask and manage time efficiently
- Ability to thrive in a high-pressure environment and work with tight deadlines
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Excellent integration and implementation skills
- Working knowledge of computers and software programs, especially Excel
- Must be willing to do minimal travel as required
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision care
- Backup dependent care
- Adoption assistance
- Infertility coverage
- Family building support
- Behavioral health solutions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- Training programs
- Professional development resources
- Mentorship programs
- Employee resource groups
- Volunteer activities
- Inclusive culture and wellness resources supporting physical, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing
- Reasonable accommodations during the employment process and employment
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