Contract Professional

Job Title: Contract Professional
Job ID: 87236
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
 

Overview: 
The Contract Professional Level 2 performs formal management of contracts with medium to high complexity, so that projects and ongoing operations are delivered safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.

What you will be doing:

• Primarily we want this individual to support our ERP and SAP function, negotiating licensing, true up and service integration and support contracts.

• Advise & negotiate as required for new and renewed contracts; work with BC Hydro Legal on drafting and contract reviews ensuring contracts move quickly and smoothly from creation to negotiation to execution’ scope includes Consulting Service Agreements, Change Orders, Project Orders, Statements of Work, Enterprise Agreements, Enterprise License Agreements, Cloud-based Subscriptions

• Software Contracts and License Renewals – proactive forecasting and reporting of high value software contracts and management of low value transactional-based renewals via BC Hydro Value Added Reseller (VAR).

• Software Asset Optimization regards Software Entitlements – optimize and systemize compliance and management of license entitlements including rationalizing the software procurement channels to deliver best value to Technology.

• Support Technology Software Asset Management (SAM) program ensuring software license and entitlement compliance including audit support when required.

• Contract Assurance and Performance – Ensure contract performance meets business requirements, delivers best value, and ensures compliance with corporate policies including FOIPPA; scope includes reporting to confirm vendor performance aligns with service level agreements (SLA), Deliverables & Obligations, and Compliance requirements in contract.

• Contract Services Performance – reporting on SLA refresh requirements to maintain alignment with evolving business requirements.

• Vendor Governance support including Joint Business Plan reporting, status updates and follow up, Health Card (HC) reporting, status updates and follow up and governance administration, scheduling, meeting materials, and follow up.

• Contract Management administration activities across the portfolio of technology contracts including issues & risks tracking, reporting, and escalations; contract document & records management (storage and archiving inc. software entitlement records), SAP procurement system requirements such as Purchase Order issuance (monitor spend & expiration

What you must have:

• Experience operating within crown corporations or government environments. Familiarization with the Utility industry sector would be beneficial.

• Minimum of seven years progressive experience in a dynamic business environment, including in a contract management role.

• Experience managing and understanding information technology contracts including hardware (Infrastructure including Data Centre and Telecommunications), software (SaaS, Software License), application maintenance service (AMS), Value Added Reseller (VAR) and professional services contracts is an asset.

• Excellent interpersonal, communications, negotiating, project management, planning and organizational skills.

• Proven abilities (as they relate to contract management) in influencing internal and external parties, managing risk, and optimizing costs through innovation.

• Proficiency with MS Office including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

 Salary/Rate Range: $60.00 -$74.00 per hour


Term: 12-month contract; most likely to extend


Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com