Contract Senior Specialist - Data Privacy

Job Purpose

The Contracts Sr. Specialist is responsible for reviewing contract requests of high complexity, serving as a trusted expert, and collaborates with Legal, Category Management, Risk groups and Business groups to ensure that all contracts are compliant with company policies, and risk and governance requirements. Contracts Sr. Specialist is responsible to review, analyse, redline, assess risk(s) and negotiate with suppliers to obtain the best possible terms and delivery in support of business requirements with limited to no oversight from Contracts unit manager. Additionally, Contracts Sr. Specialist is the primary interface to educate business groups in understanding contract terms that will enable them to make sound business decisions, follow up with suppliers to ensure that the quality of service and/or deliverables are met and exercise signature commitment authority in accordance with corporate guidelines.

As SME, the Sr. Specialist is responsible for enhancing the efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness of end-to-end contracting operations. This includes partnering with technology teams to optimize systems and tools, driving the implementation of process updates, and ensuring sustainable adoption across the organization. This role will also support key business plan theme initiatives that relate to the contracting function.

Key Accountabilities

• Operations Improvement: SME -Responsible to lead and support business plan, optimization themes, and / or process improvements / efficiencies.
• Systems Optimization: Business product owner/lead for Contract Lifecycle Management technology suite (including QuickBase, Ariba, Icertis, and Adobe).
• Develop, lead, review, analyze, redline, risk assess risk(s) and negotiate Master Agreements with high complexity, including urgent and escalating contracts.
• Lead/manage auditing of all contracts and Contract Repository management
• Define and develop required Master Agreements based on engagement type, and support team-members in correct Master Agreement selection in the contracting process.
• Train and support for other team members and internal customers

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business or closely related field or equivalency in procurement tenure and experience
• CSP, CPM or CPSM certification is desired

Minimum Experience:

• 5+ years procurement, project management, or contracting experience.
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills are required
• Computer skills (Microsoft Suite to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Familiarity with procurement ERP system(s) (Ariba, SAP, etc.) and/or Contract Lifecycle Management tools (Icertis, Ariba, Adobe, etc.)

Job Dimensions

No. of Direct Reports: 0

No. of Indirect Reports: 1-4

Financial Dimensions:

• Management of Master Agreements for $6B+ AHM/HDMA Indirect Spend

Decisions Expected

• Review, Analyze, Redline and Negotiate Master Agreements including mediation of problem resolution and for compliancy and adherence to corporate guidelines while additionally ensuring that document support and process approvals are in accordance with AHM governance and compliance requirement in place.
• Risk Assestment of all Master Agreements for any Risk, be it through Data Protection, Personal Identifiable Information, Intellectual Property, S and A Ranked Data to mitigate risk for Honda.
• Review and Analyze processes & systems for inefficiencies and utilize PDCA and Agile methodology to improve current outcomes.

Working Conditions

• Office environment, no more than 5 % travel required. 
• Potential for 2-5 hours overtime weekly
• Position is On-site (80% on-site, 20% remote)