Junior Contracts Administrator

Essential Functions

• Receives and reviews a wide variety of contract requests, and selects the most appropriate sourcing strategy based on the situation and the scope of work; may support one or more specialized areas requiring an increased depth of knowledge.
• Provides timely, accurate and cost effective contractual agreements to support company operations with an uninterrupted flow of materials and services.
• Reviews bid proposals from suppliers and recommends or enters into contracts to meet the desired scope of work.
• Maintains competitive pricing with an emphasis on cost reductions, quality, and supplier performance through competitive bid events, price negotiations, cost modeling, or other sourcing techniques.
• Identifies supplier performance issues, and works with multiple parties to resolve issues.

Job Scope Information

• Nature of Work - Works on complex issues and implements solutions based on management determination of strategy and assignment of responsibilities within their functional area.
• Level of Interaction - Often collaborates with managers and/or functional or site leaders and may have some interaction with external colleagues.
• Autonomy/Decision making - Has moderate supervision and no latitude to set objectives, priorities and timelines that may impact a department or individual work group.
• Budgetary responsibility - Has no budget responsibility
• Managerial responsibility - Manages a function or specific program(s) or project(s) but no people.