Contracts Manager

Contracts ManagerThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What you’ll do:

Contracts & Risk Management

• The team member will be responsible to drive end to end contracts management, contract reviews, drafting, negotiations with Logistics & Spares Suppliers spread across globe.
• Lead negotiation from Contracts team to resolve contractual disputes by leveraging financial, operational, and legal know-how. Influence and assist Logistics Sourcing & Spares in procurement decisions by supplementing legal/ contract perspectives and industry prevalent practices in Logistics & Spares Contracting
• Identify critical issues in the contract, highlight market regulatory/ legal implications if any, provide direction towards resolution of the same and escalate at the appropriate time towards resolving them. Issue early warning signals in case of delay on the part of Customers / Contractors and advise mitigation actions.
• Drive obligations assessment and management for assigned Suppliers to drive Supplier Performance, Risk Mitigation and Contract Compliance.

Transformation, Process Improvement & Automation

• Transform Contracts Management function to a best-in-class Centre of Excellence team by supporting the  implementation of Contract Life Cycle Management tools, establishing robust and structured processes, and identifying areas for improvement.
• Solutioning & Identification of areas to transform, automate and digitize. Ability to write policies and procedures, playbooks, guidelines in relation to contracts.
• Ability to drive end to end projects from initiation to delivery and then post delivery run & maintain.

Technical Requirements

• Well versed with MS Office Tools.
• Experience of a CLM Tool.

Other Asks

• Knowledge of key business and contractual risks in logistics and spares contracting domain and prevalent market practices.
• Advanced written, verbal and presentation skills catered to a wide variety of audiences, with mastery in English drafting skills.
• Fosters teamwork and encourages effective communication within the team.

What you need to bring:

Education & Experience Required:

• LL.B/LL.M from a reputed university preferred.

• 10-12 Years of Post Qualification experience working in an In-House Legal or Contracts Team supporting global customer/supplier contracts.

• Experience in Sourcing, Supply Chain, IT Spare Parts and Logistics contracts. Proven ability as subject matter expert in one or more contracts functional areas, combined with significant experience providing contracts support to multi-business unit deals.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Business, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Conflict Resolution, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Law, Legal Consulting, Legal Practices, Legal Risk, Legal Support, Long Term Planning {+ 5 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

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Job Level:

Expert

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