What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contracts Manager position at SR Talent Solution Inc?
Title: Contracts Manager -W2
Contract: 12 months
Location: Waltham MA 02451 Onsite
Required Skills and Experience
- 7 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial management, contract negotiation, supply chain, vendor management, construction contracting, or capital project procurement.
- Significant experience supporting construction sourcing, infrastructure procurement, utility procurement, energy projects, EPC/EPCM environments, capital projects, or complex field services.
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing RFPs, RFQs, bid packages, pricing schedules, evaluation models, negotiation plans, sourcing strategies, and award recommendation materials.
- Strong understanding of construction procurement and contracting considerations, including scope definition, pricing structure, schedule commitments, safety requirements, labor availability, change orders, claims risk, insurance, bonding, warranties, and payment milestones.
- Proven ability to assess supplier capacity, contractor qualifications, market constraints, labor availability, commercial risk, and delivery feasibility.
- Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills, with the ability to balance cost, risk, quality, schedule, safety, affordability, and stakeholder needs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement, introduce new ways of working, standardize tools and templates, and implement practical operating model improvements.
- Ability to provide thought leadership, constructive challenge, and strategic recommendations while remaining highly execution-focused.
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, including project management, engineering, construction, legal, finance, risk, safety, operations, and senior leadership.
- Ability to operate independently in a senior individual contributor capacity while influencing managers, stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-functional teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise, executive-ready updates, sourcing summaries, risk assessments, improvement plans, and decision materials.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to bring structure, prioritization, and follow-through to multiple complex sourcing events and improvement initiatives.
- Experience with procurement tools and systems such as SAP, Ariba, e-sourcing platforms, Excel, PowerPoint, dashboards, and sourcing trackers.
Preferred Experience
- Direct experience with electric utility construction categories such as transmission, distribution, substations, civil construction, underground construction, overhead line work, emergency response, or related capital delivery services.
- Experience working in a regulated utility, energy, public infrastructure, engineering, construction, or capital project delivery environment.
- Familiarity with construction delivery models such as EPC, EPCM, design-bid-build, design-build, alliance contracting, master service agreements, contractor panels, and framework agreements.
- Experience supporting large-scale capital programs with multiple stakeholders, compressed timelines, high spend, complex governance, and significant business visibility.
- Experience improving procurement execution through templates, tools, process discipline, reporting, governance routines, stakeholder communication, and operating model improvements.
- Familiarity with supplier performance management, construction KPIs, contractor scorecards, post-award handoff requirements, and lessons-learned processes.
- Experience helping organizations scale capability during periods of significant workplan growth or capital investment expansion.