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Contract Specialist - Procurement

Pay Rate: 45.00-55.00 per hour

Hybrid role in Malvern, PA

Contract to hire potential

Seeking candidates with

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years; experience in a fast-paced commercial contracting environment, including negotiating legal terms of contracts.

Summary

To perform third party supplier legal drafting and contracting work. This role will focus on reviewing, drafting and negotiating procurement contracts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Interprets and communicates contract requirements, obligations, and risk exposures to key stakeholders, including sourcing professionals and business leaders.
• Ensure contracts are timely negotiated and executed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Educates key stakeholders about commercial, legal, policy and other considerations in support of the negotiation process.
• Timely and accurately enters contract data into applicable contract management systems.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Understands service requirements across multiple business groups.
• Follows documented contracting processes, including engaging legal counsel and key stakeholders as necessary and leveraging technical understanding of the contracting process.
• Supports the sourcing function by reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts of medium complexity as it relates to risk (information security, intellectual property infringement, financial exposure), impact to enterprise (urgency, business stakeholder), dollar amount, sourcing owner for business negotiation, length of contract and existence of category strategy.
• Follows quality control processes to meet expected service levels, and maintains close working business relationship with Vanguard’s commercial legal counsel.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead commercial contract negotiations.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical, drafting, and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate closely with key stakeholders from different disciplines, and within a team.
• Excellent client service and communication skills.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required.
• Technical understanding of contractual terms required.
• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• Minimum of 5 years; experience in a fast-paced commercial contracting environment, including negotiating legal terms of contracts.