Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 40 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 71 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

Summary:
The Contract Manager is responsible for generation, routing, tracking and execution of new Provider Agreements, including employment and recruiting agreements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Generates the Provider Agreements based on specific terms as outlined by a recruiter or operations leader
• Daily functions include, but not limited to, preparing agreements and supporting documentation, revising agreements, reviewing agreements for accuracy, loading agreements into the electronic contract system, as well as tracking agreements through the approval process, and working closely with the recruiter to insure a quality contracting service to the facilities.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with facility CEOs, CFOs, Practice Managers, Corporate Regional Practice Vice Presidents and Regional Directors.
• Track all agreements from generation to execution using established electronic database.
• Maintain electronic filing system for agreements and input data into physician tracking system.
• Notifies operations team member of provider details for signed contract
• Works closely with the legal team to ensure accurate verbiage is used in Provider Agreements.
• Responsible for all contract template revisions and/or corrections and for maintaining the master copy of all legally approved contract templates.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of word processing software, spreadsheet software, and database software.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Must be self-motivated and able to communicate well with others in person, via written communication, and telephonically.
• Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3 years of previous contract related experience

Physical Demands:
In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:

• The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
• The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.
• The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office or administrative work.