What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contract Administrator position at Radiant Digital?
At Radiant Digital, we provide IT solutions and consulting services to help government agencies and businesses in the USA, Canada, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. On the federal side, we support agencies like NASA, the Department of State (DOS), the IRS, ACL, ACF,USDA and many others, along with numerous state and local government agencies.
We work with industries like telecom, healthcare, entertainment, oil and gas offering solutions designed to meet their specific needs. We focus on improving systems, making better use of data, and updating applications to keep up with changing markets.
Position: Contract Administrator
Location: Onsite - Providence, RI
Duration: 6 Months plus
Job Description:
The Program Manager-Senior will take on the responsibilities of Contract Administrator ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of all vendor contracts associated with the ). This role will be instrumental in driving vendor performance through active and ongoing management and proactively addressing issues when performance standards are not achieved. In addition, this role provides additional project management support to the Enterprise PMO for related continuous process improvement initiatives and other strategic projects. To be successful, the role requires strong vendor management skills, knowledge of IT contracts and general procurement practices, knowledge of software development processes and exceptional leadership and communication skills. Candidates should have versatile project management and strategic procurement skills with the ability to learn quickly and work with limited oversight and supervision.
Required skills
- Bachelor's degree – preferably related to IT Vendor Management
- Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum 10 years of IT Project management experience; Preference for Experience in Managing vendors and being part of Application Implementation(s) and ongoing Maintenance [M&O] Support
- Minimum 8-10 years of Contract management experience including IT vendor and supplier management having done the following:
- Statement of Work – facilitating and drafting terms on Scope
- RFP / RFI – Drafting RFP to facilitating evaluation
- Contract Negotiations – facilitate and complete terms and pricing
- Ongoing Contract Management – Part of Project attend vendor performance reviews, review service level management [SLA] jointly with IT as per measurement cycle; Perform ongoing change order renewals
- Excellent organization skills
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills including executive level communications
- Ability to drive vendor performance for IT services, hardware and software through metrics and governance
- Managing conflict resolution and leading successfully in a matrix organization
- Experience with application development and software development life cycle methodologies
- Experience with ITIL practices including incident and problem management
- Required knowledge of JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint
- Familiarity with integrated eligibility systems and interfacing with Federal Partners a plus
- PMP certification a plus