Contract Specialist

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Job Title: Contract Specialist

Location: Calgary Canada

Employment Type: full-time

The Contract Specialist role is a full-time offer and will support the NA Sales team. The Contract Specialist will follow prepare and assist Sellers with the contractual documents needed to buy AVEVA products & services. The Contracts Specialist reaches out to all the necessary stakeholders until the contract is delivered and duly signed by all parties. The role is based in Calgary, Canada and it will be mainly covering the North America. The person will be integrated in the Americas Contract Management team, but part of a larger global team.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that contractual templates are properly released, applied and Corporate policies are properly followed in the contracts being signed with our clients.

• Issuing standard contracts and filling the contractual templates.

• Reviewing non-standard contracts and follow up the contractual negotiation along with legal department and any other internal stakeholders.

• Supporting our Sales department with basic contractual matters and tendering.

• Reporting

• Covering other colleagues working in US during their absences, working as a global team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor 's degree and 3+ years of hands-on negotiating and administering commercial contracts experience. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.

• Negotiation skills, including experience redlining and negotiating terms and conditions.

• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-volume environment critical. As such the ability to manage multiple priorities is required.

• Covering other colleagues working in US during their absences.

• Must have the interpersonal skills to deal effectively with executive management and staff regarding Contract.

• Strong organizational skills, you will be able to establish priorities, meet deadlines and targets
  Proactive, attention to detail and a strong team player
  Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written
  Contractual experience will be a plus
  Legal background will be a plus (no degree in Law is required)
  English Language proficiency - mandatory

• The person joining shall be comfortable using Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Outlook etc).

• Working experience with Salesforce, SharePoint, MS Teams, Acrobat and DocuSign CLM.

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment.  Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws,  include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

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