CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Business Partnering:

• Ability to establish credible relationships across Sherwin-Williams
• Actively participate on design building sessions to understand user groups' contract process and establish relationships with stakeholders, preparing for post go-live support
• Leverages relationships with contract owners across both buy and sell side to facilitate contract operations from contract request through post signature management
• Supports system approval and signature process by tracking requests through contract execution
• Supports training for end users and category managers regarding Contract Management policies and procedures; promotes user adoption by improving contract usability

Contract and Strategy Execution:

• Ensure contract workflows are followed to fully signed agreements and properly converted to final draft in contract repository
• Manages contract repository and contract data to ensure Sherwin-Williams achieves full value from contracts
• Ensures fulfillment of Contract Management process compliance expectations
• Participate in user training and provide ongoing support of contract obligations
• Conduct surveillance to detect and aid in correcting instances of contracting activities that occur outside of system
• Track expired contracts and ensure Retention Policy is supported
• Review data and system insights and created various reports for user groups and steering Op-Co throughout each month

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify bottlenecks and alert users of process flow aging concerns in an effort to complete contract process more efficiently
• Participate in information gathering meetings to understand user group contract requirements and aid in establishing and managing contract obligations
• Monitor metrics related to risks, time and value

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Business, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, or Law related field is required

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 3+ years of finance, procurement, contract management or legal operations experience.

Preferred:

• Previous experience working within CPG/Retail and/or home improvement industry

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Proven ability to analyze and present findings in a clear and cohesive manner
• Ability to identify and research legal implications of a contract obligations
• Capable of navigating through ambiguous situations and provide business guidance on 3^rd party agreements
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across the enterprise and support reporting on contract compliance and obligations to our 3^rd parties
• Ability to develop processes and/or to identify continuous improvements to help better coordinate activities and drive business value across buy and sell side organizations (e.g., capture price increases, rebates, discounts, etc)
• Exceptional relationship builder and stakeholder manager, ability to grow personal networks
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite products, including but not limited to, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred:

• Positive, proactive, can-do attitude
• Autonomy, entrepreneurial self-starter who can work with minimal supervision
• Confident and able to push back when appropriate, escalate when needed
• Inspires trust and confidence
• Results-oriented and responsible