Contract Specialist

Job title: Contract Specialist

About us:
Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

Insight’s sales teams are collectively responsible for growing and maintaining business relationships across a range of clients. The sales teammates targets are to achieve growth and develop and maintain strategic client relationships based on trust, to earn client loyalty and achieve mutual success through the effective building of close partnerships.

The Public Sector Business Development team is the catalyst for all public sector sales. The Public Sector Business Development team is responsible for obtaining accreditations on procurement frameworks, responding to further competition from those frameworks, bidding on partner opportunities, and managing all subsequent contracts and statements of work.

The Contract Specialist is responsible for managing a few key commercial and contract processes in long term contracts and framework agreements, and for adopting and developing commercial processes in line with Insight’s procedures. The Contract Specialist is held accountable for supporting business development and sales opportunities in the public sector by enabling and facilitating a few key processes.

Key responsibilities:

1. Identify relevant ICT government tenders and manage bid production processes with key contracts, frameworks, and requests for information.
2. Negotiate and draft contract documentation and statements of work (SOWs) to secure the best commercial terms.
3. Manage a portfolio of contracts, sub-contractors, and framework provider agreements to facilitate new business and maximise opportunity return.
4. Collaborate closely with account and consulting teams, as well as solution specialist teammates to ensure accurate, appropriate, and engaging information is included in each contract.
5. Manage complex deal opportunities that encompass multi-part contracts and relationships, and secure maximum return to Insight while simultaneously mitigating potential risk.
6. Develop and maintain processes for on-boarding new contracts and frameworks.
7. Manage requests for ‘Contract Change’ notices while ensuring compliance with Insight’s policies and procedures.

This list is not exhaustive, you will be required to undertake additional responsibilities as reasonably requested by your manager.

Key skills and experience required:

1. Demonstrates previous experience working as a commercial contract paralegal or contracts manager.
2. High level of written and spoken English.
3. Confident, outward-looking, proactive communicator.
4. Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, and Word).
5. Demonstrates previous experience working in a sales environment.
6. Proven ability in drafting contractual paperwork and documents.
7. LPC, LLB, Legal Executive or other relevant legal training.
8. Process driven with an excellent attention to detail and a working knowledge of ITIL areas.
9. Results orientated with ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines.
10. Demonstrates awareness of contract law.
11. Experience of working within a statutory legal and/or regulatory framework.
12. Articulate, numerate and able to communicate well at all levels within Insight and Insight clients.
13. Proven ability to communicate effectively with managers and senior members across the organisation, and external stakeholders.
14. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in addition to confidence in presenting to senior management, clients, and subcontractors.
15. Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload, including coordinating with others to ensure statutory and other deadlines and targets are met.
16. Excellent time management skills for self, team, and team deliverables.
17. Excellent time management skills and ability to work unsupervised, to tight deadlines.

About Insight:
We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Application Details:
Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.