Senior Contracts Specialist

AIG Insurance • Houston, TX

6d • Onsite

About The Position

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. Building on 100 years of experience, today AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, and other financial services to customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets and manage risks. What you need to know: In this role you will reach across geographical and functional boundaries to create alliances that further the organization’s objectives and market position. This role reports to the Director of Contract Management and will be a key member of the GS&PS Procurement Operations team. The candidate for this role will bring a proven track-record of working through successful, complex programs, with a keen eye towards effective stakeholder management, strong influencing skills, effective reporting capabilities, strong communications and partnering skills; a focus on cost efficiency, operational excellence and the future of work in partnership with key leadership; and experience working with a third-party partner seamlessly, ensuring the investment of the external resources are leveraged adequately to accelerate the successful execution of contract management aiding in overall goals of the GS&PS organization leading to overall AIG success.

Requirements

• Proven ability to navigate through an organization to “get things done”.
• Effective in influencing skills in both a remote/virtual and in person (as needed).
• Excited with change and has successful track record in driving change in complex environments.
• Data driven and oriented, with ability to focus on key elements that drive difference.
• Collaborate and influence cross-functionally with both internal and external stakeholders, including senior executives, to drive change and deliver on Transformation and Continuous Improvement vision and objectives.
• Must be proactive in managing issues by anticipating the outcome of the process and ensuring all necessary steps have been taken.
• Model and coach others on Contracting and Risk.
• Identify gaps and facilitate training needs within the organization.
• Experience working across functional, organizational, and business boundaries, ensuring the entire process delivers the desired service level standard. Often this entails client-side leadership to recommend and negotiate improvements or changes in the overall process design or systems design.
• Ability to travel on occasion as needed.
• Bachelor’s degree focused in a related area (Business, Supply Chain, Contracts, Law).
• Experience drafting contract provisions and Orders/Statements of Work (SOWs), coupled with excellent writing skills and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and collaborative leader with 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong issue spotting skills and ability to identify and advocate for different potential positions to resolve those issues.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Deep knowledge of best in class sourcing and contracting processes.
• Demonstrated leadership of complex supplier contracting, ideally at Fortune 100 and across multi-entity global corporate structure.
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Software Suite products, Ariba, SharePoint and DocuSign.
• Must have knowledge of contracts for IT products and services.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in a related area, such as Business, Supply Chain, Contracts or Law.
• Candidates with a JD degree (non-practicing) may also be considered.
• Experience working with complex contracts management and negotiation for the following categories: Licensing, Cloud Services, Professional Services, Managed Services, Real Estate, Marketing, and Human Resources.
• Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed company.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a member of the team to support negotiations and deals as needed.
• Support contract strategy to leverage AIG spend and align the contracting strategy with the category and business strategy.
• Support the creation and implementation of a playbook for standard contractual clauses including pre-approved fallback positions.
• Review early stage deals to flag major contracting issues to ensure early engagement with relevant subject matter expert teams (Legal, ISO, Tax, etc).
• Proactively manage active agreements for assigned key suppliers, including renewal/expiration activity and monitoring older agreements for periodic replacement or amendment as AIG standard terms change.
• Ensure compliance with AIG contracting processes and standards.
• Work collaboratively with AIG Legal teams to provide GS&PS feedback and revisions to draft template agreements; ensure templates are prioritized and optimized for GS&PS requirements.
• Support the creation and delivery of training for sourcing managers as needed.
• Partner with the policy and process teams to ensure training materials are current and reflect contract lifecycle practices.
• Support/Lead projects within domain expertise to support AIG/GS&PS G&O.

Benefits

• At AIG, our people are our greatest asset. We know how important it is to protect and invest in what’s most important to you. That is why we created our Total Rewards Program, a comprehensive benefits package that extends beyond time spent at work to offer benefits focused on your health, wellbeing and financial security—as well as your professional development—to bring peace of mind to you and your family.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior