Senior Contract Conformance Specialist
- Pay Rate: $56 – $59/hour (on W2)
- Contract Length: 12 months
- Location: Houston, TX 77079 (Hybrid)
Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Overview
This position provides senior-level Supply Chain Management (SCM) Contracts Center support for a range of supplier contracting activities across the company. The role is accountable for drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and finalizing contractual terms using client-approved templates, established legal positions, documented precedents, and applicable policy requirements. The Specialist will support agreement creation, supplier redline negotiation, choice-of-contract guidance, supplier onboarding terms and conditions acceptance, and contract execution readiness, while partnering with SCM, Legal, Contract Owners, Business Units, and suppliers to deliver consistent, risk-informed, compliant, and efficient contracting outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Independently draft, review, revise, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including, but not limited to, EPC Agreements, Services Agreements, and supplier paper agreement.
- Review supplier redlines and prepares practical, risk-informed responses using approved templates, alternate clauses, prior precedents, and Legal guidance.
- Facilitate supplier negotiations on contractual terms and conditions within defined risk parameters, escalating non-standard terms, material deviations, high-risk positions, or significant business impacts to Legal and SCM leadership as appropriate.
- Advise SCM and business stakeholders on appropriate contract type selection by interpreting scope, risk profile, value, inspection level, business unit requirements, entity considerations, joint venture requirements, and applicable SCM guidance.
- Coordinate internal input from Buyers, Category Managers, Contract Owners, Business Units, Legal, Risk, Insurance, Safety, Tax, and other functional stakeholders to resolve contract issues and align positions before supplier communication.
- Engage business stakeholders to confirm scope, urgency, value, risk acceptance, contract owner information, legal entity details, operating unit requirements, and other facts needed to support accurate contract drafting and negotiation.
- Document business decisions, Legal feedback, negotiation rationale, approved deviations, and status updates in Contracts Center systems to support auditability, knowledge sharing, and leadership reporting.
- Create and maintain contract records in Oracle and other designated systems, including contract numbers, draft records, execution status, contract uploads, and handoff to Buyers or SCM teams for purchase order or master agreement release.
- Identify recurring contracting issues, supplier negotiation trends, template gaps, process inefficiencies, and opportunities for master agreements, playbooks, alternate clauses, or improved intake guidance.
- Promote consistent application of company-approved contract language, policies, procedures, governance frameworks, and Contracts Center best practices across SCM contracting activities.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of a university degree, paralegal degree, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in supply chain, contract management, procurement, commercial contracting, legal operations, or as an in-house paralegal, preferably in the energy, utilities, oil and gas, construction, engineering, or industrial services sector.
- Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex supplier agreements and redlines using prepared templates, approved fallback language, and established negotiation parameters.
- Strong understanding of contracting principles, including indemnity, limitation of liability, insurance, warranty, confidentiality, assignment, termination, payment, scope, entity, and purchase order terms.
- Ability to interpret scope, value, risk profile, business requirements, contract type guidance, and policy requirements to recommend an appropriate contracting approach.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain contractual concepts in clear, practical language to business stakeholders and suppliers.
- Strong judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, organization, and ability to document decisions and status updates clearly for auditability and reporting.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, urgent requests, multiple negotiations, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Teams, Adobe or electronic signature tools, and enterprise systems such as Oracle; experience maintaining contract records and workflow/status tracking tools preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- International Association for Contract & Commercial Management, World Commerce & Contracting, Supply Chain Management Professional, paralegal, procurement, or contract management certification.
- Experience with energy infrastructure contracting, joint ventures, master agreement strategy, supplier onboarding terms, contract playbooks, alternate clause libraries, process improvement, or negotiation trend analysis.
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