Procurement Manager - Contracts

Procurement Manager - Contracts

Are you a Procurement Manager with experience drafting and negotiating multiple concurrent complex agreements, including those related to professional services? Are you highly skilled in partnering with business units to advise and provide consultative support on business, legal, compliance, technology, and financial issues? Well, this may be the role for you.

As Procurement Manager - Contracts, you will manage a wide variety of complex third-party partner and major vendor relationships in support of ADP's domestic and international strategies, product / services, software and technology objectives, initiatives, and migration. You will negotiate, draft, close, and manage complex arrangements to secure the necessary relationships and technology for current and future ADP needs.

In this role, you will provide consultative support to ADP senior and executive management regarding such areas as preserving ADP's business flexibility, maximizing ADP's leverage and benefit, negotiating strategic partner and vendor transactions, complying with third-party partner requirements, reducing ADP's financial and litigation risk, and other strategic initiative impacts (i.e., NOI & P / L). Additionally, you will manage business compliance policies and processes and stay abreast of business, technology, and legal developments that can impact ADP's business and strategy.

Here's what you can expect on a typical day :

• Manages strategic business partner and major vendor relationships to ensure ADP achieves its strategic product / service, financial, and operational initiatives.
• Develops and implements innovative solutions and secures complex, unique business partnerships and arrangements to meet third-party technology needs.
• Proactively manages relationships to ensure mission-critical needs are met in a timely manner while minimizing financial impact.
• Maintains ongoing dialogues with internal ADP clients, as well as existing and prospective third-party partners, to capitalize on new opportunities, further ADP interests, and avoid missed opportunities
• Negotiates, closes, and drafts various complex agreements and transactions with ADP strategic business partners and major vendors to achieve ADP technology and product / service initiatives, secure long-term relationships, realize ADP financial goals, and minimize risk.
• Ensures the timely closure of complex agreements whose negotiated and drafted terms and conditions are made in the best interest of ADP, supports strategic technology goals and initiatives, preserves future business flexibility and options, minimizes financial exposure, and complies with ADP business partner objectives.
• Negotiates, closes, and drafts related agreements and additional types of transactions as required as ADP markets new products and services, closes more strategic transactions / acquisitions, and migrates its technology.
• Conducts direct negotiations and leads internal project and strategy meetings as required.
• Advises and provides consultative support to ADP senior / executive management on major business, legal technology, and financial issues of relationships or specific transactions.
• Provides creative, solution-oriented input to manage business, technology, legal, and financial aspects of relationships and specific transactions while ensuring optimal results with minimal exposure and consequence to ADP.
• Advises and consults with ADP senior / executive management and Corporate Legal regarding critical ADP, relationship, and agreement issues.
• Provides financial analysis of transactions for NOI and P / L impacts and planning / budgeting.
• Advises senior / executive management regarding funding requirements for current and future ADP product / service and internal operations technology needs.
• Keeps abreast of market, industry, technology, legal, and business trends as well as ADP market, product / services, and third-party strategic partner developments which can impact ADP business and strategy.
• Proactively responds to trends and developments to capitalize on opportunities and eliminate any adverse business impact.
• Recommends policy and relationship strategy changes, builds new and re-engineers existing business processes and cycles, and manages processes to ensure ADP compliance with negotiated arrangements.
• Manages projects and builds / leads cross-functional internal teams to ensure timely and effective results
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Experience. You have 8+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

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