Sr. Contract Manager
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CONNIE J. WILLIAMS
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MONROE, WA 98272
SUMMARY
Over 20 years’ experience in Corporate Contracts and Procurement Certificate of Purchasing Management from University of Washington PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Contract Management: Contract review and renewals for stakeholders, renewals for Sales Team; reporting and keeping KPI’s updated. Drafting of SOP’s and new contracts/SOW.
Negotiation’s: Work with vendor and stakeholder team to keep the standards for the company
Process Improvement: Review all SOP’s take actions to improve and work with the team to vet
Value Customer Service: Make sure that both internal and external members are “in the loop”, inform them of any issues, set up meetings to review
Reporting: Provide weekly reports for up to date “Work In Progress” WIP ALBERTSONS, LLC., INC.
SR. BUSINESS ANALYST (FULLTIME)
March 2022 – September 2023 Merged with Kroger.
• Process improvement for the business
• Project management
• RFP initiation and follow through
• Review agreements/redline
• Research history of contracts and supplier relationships
• Update and maintain the team SharePoint
• Data mitigation and privacy/GDPR
• Build relationships with the team and stakeholders, including Director/SVP and VP levels and Legal
• Built and managed the Albertsons relationship with our India team (ISG), management, training, process implementation, communication protocol. This team supports our team and our ITAM team to renew agreements and negotiate lower fees. This year so far, $1.4 million in savings.
FACEBOOK VIA CRYSTAL EQUATION, INC
BUSINESS COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST (CONTRACT)
April 2021 to February 2022
• Review internal Agreements in flight
• Ability to distinguish areas of risk or important call outs in an agreement
• Analyze trends in the agreements reviewed
• Communicate findings in a summary report
• Provide recommendations on how to mitigate risks identified in agreements
• Communicating contingent workforce initiatives to vendor contacts 2
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• Audit current Contingent Worker contracts, access misclassifications
• Recommend process improvements
• Review contracts for vendor updates, dba’s, inactive vendors PREMERA BLUE CROSS
Sr Contract Analyst
March 2020 – March 2021
• Review/redline and develop contracts, amendments, and terminations.
• Work with internal business teams to educate and support as needed.
• Develop policy and procedure, best practices, or knowledge content, for a large region of the organization to ensure data sharing governance and management guidelines are developed and aligned with enterprise guidelines and data governance strategy.
• Ensure data sharing and information principles, policies, standards; controls are following the organizations and government policies.
• Provide regular status updates to all stakeholders on timing and costs of engagement efforts.
• Participate in/facilitate review sessions as needed, engaging appropriate subject matter experts to meet to define, develop and finalize policies. Ensure that efforts are aligned with formal processes and final sign-off occurs.
• Identify areas where new policies and procedures need to be developed or refined based on current and future enterprise or data management initiatives, drive the written knowledge expansion development process, and ensure appropriate documentation and communication when finalized.
• Ensure that the same data governance rigor is being applied in the evaluation processes, that appropriate legal/compliance documentation is being completed, and to streamline/consolidate decision-making when appropriate. UNIFY CONSULTING - Contract Manager
October 2019 – February 2020
• Salesforce review and update
• Support Account Managers and clients – T-Mobile, Microsoft, Amazon, Premera Blue Cross etc.
• Create BRD for Contract Management in Salesforce o Workflow
o Contractor on boarding – off boarding
• Work with T-Mobile for network access via Fieldglass
• Review and draft MASOW, SOW, LOE, new and renewals – our paper and clients
• Initiate background checks for consultants.
• Work with finance on billing issues
THE EVERETT CLINIC A PART OF OPTUMCARE- Contract Manager May 2019 – October 2019
• Reviews, revise/drafts IT related contracts (includes, terms & conditions, amendments, statements of work, software license agreements, etc., (on vendor paper)
• Low to high complexity and risk using knowledge of IT, policies, and processes. VIRATE, LLC– SEATTLE - SR. CONTRACT SPECIALIST
Support ORACLE DATA CLOUD TEAM
JUNE 2018 – MAY 2019
• Review GDPR rules and processes
• Work with sales to make sure onboard of vendors is followed under Privacy Policy
• Audit Enterprise and Retail Agreements
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DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LLC - SR. CONTRACT PARALEGAL - CONTRACT – REDMOND Support Microsoft's CELA Team
OCTOBER 2017 – JUNE 2018
• Research – GDPR updating SharePoint for Legal Team
• Contracts – Review drafting
• Projects as required
APIDEL TECHNOLOGIES – CONTRACT – CONTRACT MANAGER BELLEVUE TAPFIN – MANPOWER AT EXPEDIA, INC.
JULY 2017 – OCTOBER 2017
• Updating expiring SOW’s
• Drafting MSA’s/SOW’s
• Reporting of expiring SOW’s
LAWDAWGS – CONTRACT - BOTHELL, WA
ACUCELA, INC., CONTRACT PARALEGAL(CONTRACT)
APRIL 2017 – JULY 2017
• Draft MSA’s, SOW’s, and NDA’s as necessary, working with corporate counsel, as needed.
APPLE LEISURE GROUP (REMOTE CONTRACT) CONTRACT MANAGER SEATTLE, WA.
October 2016 – APRIL 2017
• Reviewed over 400 contracts
• Created new SharePoint database with updated terms APEX SYSTEMS (CONTRACT) PHOENIX, AZ
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION/TECHNICAL DOCUMENT SPECIALIST THE STATE OF ARIZONA, DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION July 2016 – October 2016
• The project initiation was to gather all supporting contracts, invoices, and communications. To evaluate rates and enterprise usage of services to help in the creation of new service rates for equal share budgeting across state departments.
• Assist in developing, coordinating, and facilitating standardized settings, and case studies.
APOLLO EDUCATION GROUP – PHOENIX, AZ
DIRECTOR – Business Development
November 2015 to March 2016
• Contract review and drafting of MSA, SOW, NDA, CONSULTING, SEMINARS, TRAINING, TUITION REDUCTION.
• Updating and writing Standard Operating Processes JDA SOFTWARE – PHOENIX, AZ
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Sr. Contract Specialist
February 2014 – November 2015
• Audit of JDA’s contractor process – defining at risk, term limits and drafting the new Contractor Staffing Policy
• Contract drafting and review of JDA’s 1500 contractors nation-wide.
• Review of contractor onboarding and off boarding; working closely with the IT team for Serengeti (a software that allows outside attorney’s and firms bill for work provided) billing process, implement and automate the accrual process.
• Defined new process for Sales contract signing via DocuSign.
• Team management – managed two Legal Assistance
T-MOBILE USA, INC. Sr. Paralegal III (CONTRACT) BELLEVUE, WA October 2012 – December 2013
• Supported two Senior Corporate Counsel in Legal Affairs for the business units that develop and deliver T-Mobile’s innovative new products.
• Program Management of ongoing matters such as CVAA (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act) and CTIA (The Wireless Association)
• Understanding of Conflict Minerals, Vendor questionnaires and reporting. CLEARWIRE CORP. – BELLEVUE, WA (MERGED WITH SPRINT) November 2006 – October 2012
Sr. Manager, Contract Law Group – Legal Team
• Manage the contract administration team of 8.
• Onboarding and offboarding of company contractors, SOW drafting, IT set up, auditing.
• Designing and implementing Clearwire’s internal web portal CONTRACT REQUEST TRACKING SYSTEM (CRTS) for Clearwire Employees to request Contracts and Contractors.
• Draft PSA’s, MSA’s, SOW’s, as necessary, working with Corporate Counsel, and Sales teams, as needed.
Plus 16 years at Microsoft in Purchasing and Contracts 1989-2005
EDUCATION
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PARALEGAL STUDIES – online
University of Washington, Seattle, WA:
• Purchasing Management – Certification
Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
• Contracts
• Purchasing
• Inventory Management
National Association of Purchasing Management –
Seminars
• Negotiations
• Understanding Contracts
• Government Contracting
SKILLS
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Microsoft Office365, SAP; Oracle; DRA; Stand Alone Contracts (Oracle); SharePoint; Fieldglass, Visio. Proficient in Business Writing; Contract Drafting, Redlining, Negotiations, Salesforce, BOX. Awards: Peer and C Level - Nominated as Clearly the Best – 2008 and 2009 at Clearwire
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