Contract Specialist - Jefferies : Job Details

You'll be supporting 3 Senior Sourcing Managers, and Procurement Dept BA. Provide negotiation, correspondence, report generation and prep efforts to Sourcing Management. Orchestrate and prioritize incoming client requests/purchase initiatives as well as provide administrative communication coordination.

Experience Level: Experienced procurement professional with 1+ years contract negotiation, commercial contract law experience; 3+ years sourcing, supply chain management background.

Opportunity: To grow your skills of all aspects of contract analysis, negotiation, structure, and management; learn all aspects of Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain Management; Interact with all levels of personnel and ranks of management within the fast-paced Financial Services vertical.

Required Skills and Experience:

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills, command of colloquial, idiomatic English, as well as professional business writing and legal terminology.

-Previous purchasing or procurement experience

-Professional, Attentive, Alert, Customer Focused demeanor

-Comfortable interacting with C-suite level executives across all capabilities and with legal personnel

-An agile multitasker quick to adapt to ever changing demands.

-Fluent in standard office applications – O365 Outlook, O365 Word, O365 Excel, O365 PowerPoint, O365 SharePoint, O365 Forms, O365 One Note, Adobe Acrobat Pro, DocuSign (or other esignature platform).

-Highly organized, tracking diverse ongoing activities.

Additional skills (nice to have):

Experience with ERP/Corp Financial Management Software, especially PeopleSoft Financials

Contract Lifecycle Management concepts or administration

Familiarity with Universal Commercial Code

Familiarity with Contract Law basics

Familiarity with any other Source-to-Pay systems