Contract Specialist

RELX • Oklahoma City, OK

61d • Hybrid

About The Position

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a skilled Contract Specialist to manage public record data and document acquisition services. This role involves identifying and engaging contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses, negotiating terms, supporting procurement, managing contracts and provider relationships, and acting as a subject matter expert on court systems and procedures. The ideal candidate will have experience in vendor management, strategic sourcing, and contract negotiation, with strong business acumen and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work experience.
• Three to five years of experience in a related role, such as vendor management, vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, or supply chain, is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of negotiation theory and sourcing concepts, strategies, and practices.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience structuring deals, drafting agreements, mitigating risk, and negotiating.
• Strong coordination, attention to detail, problem-solving, and planning skills.
• High degree of business ethics, accountability, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, judgment, analytical, customer service, interpersonal, group, and project and task management skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Adaptability, willingness to learn new enterprise applications quickly, and ability to support change.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Collaborative team approach and ability to serve as a positive role model and catalyst for change.

Nice To Haves

• Three to five years of experience in a related role, such as vendor management, vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, or supply chain, is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies to establish and sustain a service-provider network for public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services.
• Identify and implement cost-containment and cost-reduction strategies.
• Manage procurement processes for contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses, including RFIs, RFPs, RFBs, bid vetting, negotiations, evaluation against vendor-selection criteria, bid approval, and contract award in accordance with established department guidelines.
• Draft, administer, and manage contracts, ensuring service-level agreements are met.
• Serve as the ongoing point of contact for communications between internal stakeholders and service providers.
• Monitor service-provider performance against service-level agreements, including service volume, quality, and timeliness, and address non-compliance.
• Manage contract renewal, renegotiation, recertification, cancellation, and breach-of-contract processes in accordance with established department guidelines.
• Act as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures, and build and maintain relationships with government entities.
• Resolve court-access issues that inhibit public record collection.
• Identify procedural and system process improvements.
• Compile and maintain state-, county-, and court-specific collection information using established best-practice documentation templates and protocols.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and collaborate effectively across departments and business units.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree