Senior Contracts Specialist

We are searching for a Senior Contracts Specialist someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will provide skilled professional duties relating to the initiation, review, and completion of contractual arrangements entered by and on behalf of hospital entities in a manner that enables its business effectively and in accordance with established laws, regulations, policies and procedures and good business practices.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Reviews, negotiates, drafts, and facilitates collaboration on assigned contracts and amendments. Contacts end user to determine strategy and expected timeline for contract completion. Identifies reviewing parties and other stakeholders. Coordinates meetings and collaborates with operational business partners, reviewing parties and other stakeholders to outline, verify, and document roles, scope of work specifications, timelines, and expectations. Prepares complex contractual agreements by utilizing contract templates, drafting custom contracts, or obtaining third party templates.
• Answers internal questions regarding the contracts process in a professional, courteous, and timely manner. Maintains positive working relationships with internal and external business partners. Responds to internal operational business partner inquiries in a professional and courteous manner within one business day of receipt of inquiry. Assists in promptly securing answers and resolutions to their contract-related inquiries.
• Demonstrates and maintains strong professional knowledge of contracting, negotiating, and area(s) of specialty. Ensures that contract terms and conditions conform to policies and procedures, and applicable laws and regulations.
• Edits and maintains contract files. Effectively utilizes document management and versioning tools to enable effective collaboration between parties involved in contract review. Collaborates with other Contract Specialists to improve effectiveness of the Contract Administration function.
• Training and Mentoring Contract Specialists. Assists departmental leadership in the training / onboarding of new hires.

Skills & Requirements

About Us

Texas Children's has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city's Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children's comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ' s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics / gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ' s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ' s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ' s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families.

Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State / Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

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