Vice President, Strategic Contracts Position Available In Hillsborough, New Hampshire
Tallo's Job Summary: The Vice President, Strategic Contracts at Fidelity manages large-scale contracting projects, providing industry expertise in complex negotiations and relationship management. Requirements include a Bachelor's degree, JD strongly preferred, 10+ years of contract negotiation experience, and excellent strategic thinking and negotiation skills. The role involves overseeing team members, attending stakeholder meetings, and managing multiple projects independently while driving quality and process improvements.
Job Description
Job Description:
Vice President, Strategic Contracts The Role The Vice President, Strategic Contracts manages large-scale contracting projects related to complex research, amendment, and/or MSA drafting that are received throughout the organization; and provides industry specific expertise and strategic and tactical direction in the development, negotiation, management and administration of complex supplier contract negotiations and relationships. The Expertise and Skills You Bring Bachelor’s degree JD strongly preferred/preferred 10+ years of substantive transactional contract negotiation experience required Expert ability to handle highly complex negotiations and varied contracts with Fidelity’s most strategic vendor relationships independently Oversee work product of all members of assigned team Attend and represent contracts leadership at stakeholder meetings Create, oversee, and manage reporting and analytics for assigned project Top-quality presentation, interpersonal and diplomacy skills, including ability to simplify complicated issues and build consensus among competing interests Excellent strategic, tactical thinking, judgment, and decision-making skills, which you will readily use to simplify sophisticated contract and business issues for straightforward, practical analysis and resolution. Executive-level confidence, presence, initiative and influencing skills Ability to simultaneously manage multiple, large-scale projects at various stages both alone and delegating to others as needed. Proactive management of multiple Supplier relationships and ability to work well under pressure. Excellent negotiation skills and knowledge of business terms and conditions Proven commitment to drive quality and process improvements Excellent project management skills Consistent ability to problem solve and work autonomously Positive and collaborative approach forging pragmatic and creative solutions across a variety of contract issues in a dynamic environment
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Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position The Team We are an organization of professionals who own the contractual framework and contract process for most procurement-related transactions across the firm. The VP, Strategic Contracts will manage the process for Fidelity’s most strategic and large complexity relationships and ad hoc contracting projects, including participating in weekly assessment and strategy meetings, creating and maintaining a pipeline of work, and facilitating communications between Strategic Contracts and its legal, risk, and other business partners. The VP provides industry specific expertise, influencing, strategic and tactical direction in the development, negotiation, management and administration of complex contract negotiations and supplier relationships. The VP will lead the process of analyzing contract issues to identifying and eliminating risks and optimizing value to Fidelity. The VP works independently on both standard and non-standard contracts.
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