Senior Contract Specialist - Commercial Services

Company: Ensono
Location: Downers Grove
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

Senior Contract Specialist - Commercial Services Downers Grove, IL Remote Worker Type:EmployeeThe Ensono Commercial Services organization has opened a position for a Senior Contract Specialist in its Chicago, IL headquarters. This position provides front line support for Ensono's sales and strategic revenue generating commercial transactions by collaboratively setting deal structure and strategy, performing contract review, drafting and negotiation, coordinating internal approvals and taking overall responsibility for deal completion. We are looking for a talented candidate with initiative and drive who can handle a high volume of varied and complex transactional work. This position supports and coordinates the entire transaction and contracting process, including all legal, financial and business issues and contract terms, requiring a commercial transactions candidate with strong business acumen and experience analyzing and negotiating wide ranging commercial issues. Transaction counterparties will typically be sophisticated enterprise sales or outsourcing customers procuring complex hosting, IT and other technology solutions. The Senior Contract Specialist will play a pivotal role in Ensono achieving its strategic and financial objectives by providing consultative, strategic and analytic support services on commercial transactions.Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead commercial transactions to closure in prudent and expeditious manner
• Review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of contract terms
• Provide risk assessment and commercial contractual advice
• Exercise judgment and delegated authority on wide-ranging issues
• Coordinate across multiple internal organizations to resolve issues
• Vet contract issues/requests with appropriate internal organizations, track responses, and draft resulting feedback
• Prepare and administer escalations as necessary
• Identify or create solutions to deal roadblocks
• Project manage multiple deals to closure simultaneously
• Present training to client groups on transaction contractual issues and strategies
• Continuously seek to improve the transaction support process Experience:
  • Preferred Minimum of 7 years of relevant and recent commercial transactions experience in a similar work environment (i.e., technology contracting office, law firm or corporate legal department)
  • Demonstrated success in complex contract review, drafting and negotiation for sales/outsource transactions involving technology products/services, including licensing/IP related terms.
  • Experience with responsibility for all aspects of commercial transactions, including basic financials and all non-pricing business/legal issues and contract terms
  • Familiarity with all phases of sales/outsource contracting from pre-contract Requests for Proposals/Bids to contract negotiation/execution and post-contract support.
  • Experience supporting a professional, outside sales force in technology transactions
  • Successful record of interacting with sophisticated enterprise customers, and their third party representatives, as transaction counterparties
    • Prior in-house, management, and international experience preferred Qualifications/Skills:
      • BA or MBA preferred
      • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to summarize issues to clients/management
      • Teamwork and team leadership skills
      • Ability to effectively counsel clients concerning contractual business risks in sales transactions--
      • Ability to work independently with little supervision in a fast paced environment
      • Ability to rapidly assess potential risks, benefits and consequences of business decisions.
      • Well-honed project management and organizational skills needed to manage multiple/complex transactions
      • Independent initiative to develop, lead and implement special projects that enhance contracting processes.
        • Solid work ethic and strong sense of responsibility for high quality work product
          • Ability to achieve results under pressure/deadlines
          • Proficient in MS-Outlook, Word and PowerPoint
          • Some travel may be requiredPrimary Location City/State:Downers Grove, IL - Finley, IllinoisAdditional Locations (if applicable):Homebased - Downers Grove, IL - Finley Ensono is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Ensono provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, military status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Posted 3 Days Ago Full time JR005939 About Us Ensono helps IT leaders be the catalyst for change by harnessing the power of hybrid IT to transform their businesses. We drive digital transformation by enabling increased agility and scalability through the modernization to public cloud. Our--broad--services--portfolio from mainframe to cloud,--powered--by an intelligent governance platform, is designed to help our clients operate for today and optimize for tomorrow. We are award-winning certified experts in AWS and Azure and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year. Ensono has over 2,000 associates around the world and is headquartered in greater Chicago. Visit us at--www.ensono.com .--In June 2018, Ensono acquired the hosted data center business of Wipro.
            Our company and community is one that focuses on philosophy of we win together. Our job opportunities will stretch your limits and expose you to cutting edge technologies whether you're an engineer, developer, products guru, systems and security expert, sales and consulting executive, or an intern looking to gain real experience with a company that will make your r--sum-- - and you - stand out.
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