Procurement Contract Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100.4k - $163.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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GuideWell Source

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1001 - 5000 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🏛️ Government

🏢 Enterprise

Healthcare Insurance • Government • Enterprise

GuideWell Source is a company within the GuideWell Family that focuses on accelerating innovative health solutions to market, transforming and reshaping the health industry. It specializes in healthcare delivery, providing new models and superior outcomes for patients. The company emphasizes consumerism in healthcare, engaging clients in meaningful ways. GuideWell Source offers healthcare insurance, protecting employers and consumers with coverage plans and services. The company also provides administrative and claims processing services for state and federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, establishing itself as a trusted business partner in the healthcare sector with a focus on operational excellence.

📋 Description

• Lead Contract Review and Negotiations: Conduct thorough reviews of contracts, addenda, amendments, and other procurement documents to ensure alignment with company standards, regulatory requirements, and business objectives. Negotiate contract terms and conditions with suppliers, leveraging expertise in contract law and procurement regulations. Provide expert guidance to Sourcing teams in drafting Master Service Agreements (MSA) and Statements of Work (SOW), ordering documents, and other contracts requiring legal input or review, ensuring all documents are accurate, complete, and aligned with company objectives. Facilitate initial negotiations between GuideWell and suppliers on contract Terms & Conditions, ensuring that company interests are protected and that agreements are fair and reasonable. Draft, edit, and negotiate master service agreements. • Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact between Procurement and Legal teams, facilitating open communication and ensuring seamless collaboration to drive business outcomes. Provide guidance to Sourcing teams on contracting strategy, contract development, and negotiation. • Risk Mitigation, Compliance & Risk Management: Identify and mitigate potential legal or regulatory risks in procurement transactions, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. Stay current on changes in procurement-related laws and regulatory environments, providing expert advice to internal stakeholders. Synchronize with both Legal and GuideWell’s Government & Legislative Affairs to obtain legislation information that impacts procurement processes and work with the appropriate procurement team to operationalize. • Training: Develop and deliver training programs for the procurement team on regulatory considerations, contract negotiations, and procurement policies. • Dispute Resolution and Issue Management: Support resolution of contractual disputes with vendors, working closely with internal stakeholders, legal, and suppliers to ensure timely resolution. • Key Performance Indicators: Monitor timeliness and quality of contract reviews and analysis, effectiveness of negotiation and optimization efforts, and compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years related work experience. • Experience in procurement, contract management, or a legal-related role. • Successful redlining contract experience in moderate-to-high complexity contracts related to (may include but not limited to): Technology related Professional Services, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Health Services. • Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience • Strong understanding of procurement regulations, contract law, and negotiation principles. • Excellent analytical, negotiation, and communication skills. • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks and deadlines. • Solid contract drafting and terminology knowledge that includes understanding of subtleties of contract language, risk based language, contracting traps and pitfalls to avoid, document management and control, and legal acuity necessary to successfully negotiate mid-complexity contracts. • Excellent written and verbal communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively within an organization and diverse audiences. • Works effectively in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing multiple tasks and deadlines while maintaining strong interpersonal relationships across stakeholder groups. • Proficient in contract management software, procurement tools, and office suite software (Outlook, Word, Excel). • Supports continuous improvement of contracting processes, templates and documentation standards.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance; • Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs; • Leave programs to support personal circumstances; • Retirement Savings Plan including employer match; • Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days; • Additional voluntary benefits available; • A comprehensive wellness program