Contract Manager - focus Public sector

Leadership/Engagement:

·       Lead contract management activities on a specific project or account;

·       Work with project and account managers to ensure contract management support meets the day-to-day requirements of the business and work with client commercial and business stakeholders to understand and support client needs and priorities as needed;

·       Demonstrate the value of the contract management function with business and account leaders;

·       Steward applicable best practices training and adoption;

·       Proactively liaise with Finance, Legal, Operations, Delivery, and Subject Matter Advisors as needed to support the project;

·       Leader as well as team player, collaborative and persuasive; able to work well with executives and non-executives;

·       Ability to operate with independence and minimal supervision, but willing to take direction; and

·       Work with account teams in order to understand critical business and delivery requirements.

Risk & Issue Management:

·       Identify and resolve commercial and contract risks and issues, working with account leadership to ensure appropriate mitigations strategies are developed;

·       Escalate contractual, commercial and CM positioning matters in a timely and controlled fashion (in accordance with prescribed consultation guidelines) and ensure affected parties are notified in an appropriate manner;

·       Lead or assist actions or analyses needed to protect revenue or mitigate work at risk; and

·       Draft, review and approve weekly, monthly and quarterly reports in compliance with contract management processes and account delivery requirements.

Sales Support:

·       Provide support for pre-award sales activities, assisting with proposal reviews and working with deal teams to review contract terms and conditions and coordinating document execution;

·       Support reviews of bids or proposal responses as needed; and

·       Demonstrate reasonable knowledge and understanding of Avanade's consulting, outsourcing and systems integration service offerings and associated commercial considerations (e.g. different Avanade workforces, cost and pricing structures, SLA's & delivery timescales) and build awareness and education within your CM teams.

Contracting, Drafting and Negotiation:

·       Draft and review Statements of Work, Change Requests, Arrangement Letters, Subcontracts and Non-Disclosure Agreements, working with project leadership to facilitate timely reviews and quality contractual documents that are fit for purpose and ensure business/Legal approvals;

·       Maintain an updated repository of agreed contract templates; and

·       Participate in negotiations to achieve the best outcomes for Avanade and clients.

Mobilization and Post-Award Processes, Procedures, and Compliance:

·       Following execution of new contracts, support or lead applicable areas of post-award contract mobilization;

·       Help team understand and define robust Governance procedures;

·       Create and deploy necessary contract awareness to Delivery and Account Leadership;

·       Identify, define, create, and deploy processes needed for post-award compliance and management, including those related to government requirements, such as regulatory and trade compliance;

·       Develop, share, and when appropriate, act on knowledge of commercial levers;

·       Support contractual tracking and reporting needs;

·       Support data protection planning and training, as needed; and

·       Lead or support any needed post-award trainings related to contractual awareness or compliance.

Education:

·            University degree required (business, computing, law or engineering preferred).

Contract Management Knowledge and Experience:

·       Min 5 years relevant experience as a contract manager in Public sector (H&PS) with exposure to complex, risky deals (>$50m portfolio value) with proven team management experience;

·       Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting contracts with Government entities;

·       Relevant experience with either Consulting, Outsourcing and Systems Integration deals in the Information Technology sector;

·       Demonstrated experience leading Contract Management teams with good executive presence;

·       Able to collaborate and communicate effectively with client contract management executives and be capable of contributing to key commercial and contracting decisions;

·       Solid commercial experience with exposure to managing complex commercial issues and an understanding of commercial best practices; and

·       Solid knowledge and understanding of the Italian Public Procurement Code (Legislative Decree 50/2016) and applications in both pre-award and post-award contract management.

Knowledge of Business Practices:

·       Understanding of business practices at large corporations and/or government entities;

·       Understanding of commercial contracting regulations and principles, subcontracting practices and accounting and finance principles;

·       Ability to communicate business and contract management principles both in Italian and in English both in writing and verbally; and

·       Exposure to commercial contracting regulations and principles.

Legal Knowledge and Experience:

·       Advanced knowledge and understanding of legal processes and principles as they relate to commercial and contract management;

·       Advanced knowledge and understanding of government contracting and contract management;

·       Advanced knowledge and understanding of commercial and contract law; and

·       Advanced knowledge of the commercial terms and conditions applicable to contracts for Avanade services.

·       Established over 20 years ago by Accenture and Microsoft, Avanade is uniquely positioned as a global leader across the Microsoft ecosystem. This is a great opportunity to work within an established and growing world-class organization.

·       This role will be located in Rome;

·       Hybrid (onsite and remote) working model; and

·       Competitive compensation with generous benefits and paid time off.