Contracts Business Manager

• Are you an experienced contract administrator, adept at contract negotiation and building strong relationships with both clients and internal partners?
• Are you a natural networker with a head for numbers and a passion for process?

• Networking and Building Partnerships: As a credible, trusted advisor, you'll be responsible for building relationships and establishing rapport with your sales team, legal, functional stakeholders, clients, and the product community. You will be accountable for delivering a seamless contract process from development through service delivery.
• Contract Development and Client Relations: You'll start by taking the time to understand and evaluate client motivators to create contractual documents that reflect service delivery and appropriate pricing within established parameters. You'll educate clients on the contract process and gain agreement on process timing and milestones. As the process progresses, you'll update client documents with any agreed scope changes, manage communications with internal partners, and report back to key stakeholders on contract status.
• Process Management: Act as the conduit to describe, interpret, position, and, if necessary, make recommendations to resolve client-requested business issues. You'll leverage internal resources to address business issues that may arise during negotiations, including business unit product owners, operations, and finance.
• Influence and inspire confidence: Your comfortable and ease at taking the conversational lead in the C-suite with a compelling voice in persuasive negotiations, data-led presentations, and clear articulation of the contractual process with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Business Development: Be a resource for sales to qualify new business through proposal agreements, and uncover opportunities to add additional services during the contract process.
• Knowledge expert: Go-to person for understanding ADP's operations, service level agreements, and contractual terms
• Project Management: Manage contract project and timelines
• Process Improvements: Continue to refine contractual process and workflow, and look for ways to improve the client onboarding experience
• Grace Under Pressure: Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.

• Experience in contract negotiations
• Experience in client relationship management
• Demonstrated business acumen
• Demonstrated success building relationships and working across functional lines (sales, legal, operations, service, implementation, etc.) to achieve results
• Decisive and persuasive with diverse groups of constituents to achieve goals and have everyone leave the room feeling good about the results
• Knowledgeable in legal practices and Human Capital Management (HCM) service models
• Demonstrated managerial and project management success
• Demonstrated savvy with client presentations, communications, and negotiations
• Excellent at managing competing priorities and changing direction when necessary
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to work with and communicate confidently with stakeholders at all levels
• You’ll have a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent

• PMP

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to find the best solution.
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