Contract Manager

Minimum Knowledge and Experience :

• 5+ years of experience in contract management, project management, material procurement, and stakeholder management.
• Proven Project Procurement Management experience with demonstrable proficiency in the utilization of procurement management systems.
• Experience working in an infrastructure industry supporting the delivery of projects.
• Experience in conducting procurement regulated under Federal (ex. FTA, DOD) or State compliance requirements.
• Experience in the rail transit or Class 1 industry preferred.
• Key personal traits, forward thinking, proactive, resilient, sound judgement, innovation where it is required, driven by relentless pursuit of excellence.

Skills :

• Contract Management (creation to execution)
• Project Management (strong planning skills)
• Ability to work in a deadline driven environment
• Ability to resolve unexpected project changes
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across various departments
• Proven ability to lead by example to foster positive cross-functional relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Must excel at working collaboratively and independently
• Demonstrated capability to influence, negotiate and facilitate buy-in with a variety of stakeholders up to and including clients, external PTA’s and other counterpart transportation agencies.
• Experience multitasking, managing changing priorities, demonstrating flexibility in work, achieving results and taking corrective actions.

Key Accountabilities (Essential Job Duties) :

Contract Management

• Implement (draft / finalize) and monitor assigned contracts.
• Coordinate all supplier related legal, insurance and procurement activities for strategic procurements
• Anticipate contractual and commercial risks, opportunities and threats to procurements and implement control measures and actions.
• Management of procurement schedule, requests for clarifications and communication with potential vendors.
• Contract creation and execution, following KCS policies, terms and conditions, confidentiality and other requirements.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders guiding them through the strategic procurement process leading RFI’s, RFQ’s and RFP’s.
• Communicate requirements to internal stakeholders on scope of work, schedule, strategy and scoring of proposals.
• Work with stakeholders to coordinate scopes of work and satisfy material or services requirements for procurements.
• Present analysis, recommendations and results to management and other stakeholders.

General

• Demonstrate understanding and adherence to KCS principles of Employee Engagement, Operational Excellence and Safety, Customer Satisfaction, Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility and Economic Performance.
• Ensure Departmental policies, procedures and strategies continuously support objectives as well as programs to assure compliance with federal, state, and other applicable rules, regulations and KCS / MBTA Contract Agreements.
• Ensure Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals are instituted and met in all solicitations and award criteria.
26 days ago