IT Contracts Manager

Salt Lake CountyA career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

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Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays up to 24 vacation days 12 sick days and one personal day every year. We work in a hybrid environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office.

Additional Benefits include:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10 contribution
• Medical coverage including a 100 county paid premium optionDental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees
• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year Flexible Spending Account
• 100 countypaid LongTerm Disability and ShortTerm Disability option
• Professional Development
• Plus: Onsite medical clinic childcare and gym; hospital insurance pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

JOB SUMMARY

Will support tactical and strategic procurement of Information Technology goods and services in accordance with Salt Lake Countys policies and procedures. Will be responsible for all aspects of the procurement process including market analysis executing RFIs & RFPs performing cost analysis negotiating terms and managing supplier relationships.

Ensure consistent management of all proposals and contracts including oversight of the contract management process the development of specific standards for bidding and submission contract negotiation and document management.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in an ITrelated field or Business Management plus four 4 years of equivalent IT Procurement experience in a similar environment size and scope or eight 8 years of equivalent IT Procurement experience in a similar environment size and scope.

Due to the nature of this position the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Drives complex procurement of IT services software hardware and telecom with full transparency to IT and county stakeholders including data and industry analysis reporting results to senior managers.
• Coordinates with members of the IT Finance team IT Technology specialists and the Countys business teams to ensure proper requirements are obtained and correctly documented.
• Creates drafts negotiates and manages Information Technology (IT) contractual documentation (SOW WO MSA NDA Amendments) including identifying areas for potential cost savings and efficiencies.
• Ensures appropriate contract documents scope provisions pricing and protections are in place for SOWs and WOs. Lead the approval and signature process.
• Coordinates and drives the RFI RFQ and RFP process with internal IT stakeholders and vendors to ensure effective efficient delivery of IT procurement of goods and services.
• Provides a single point of contact for technology managers and accounting personnel and reviews technology purchase requests and invoices to ensure accuracy and completeness prior to approval and processing.
• Researches analyzes and evaluates spending and market data in supporting procurements.
• Develops and maintains supplier relationships. Performs supplier evaluations and prequalifications; defines and mandates supplier reporting requirements.
• Monitor vendors projects; hold them accountable by measuring tracking and reporting on their services successes failures budgets and deliverables.
• Develops and delivers strategies within the overall process improvement for the procurement program while ensuring customer service savings and efficiencies are achieved.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)

Knowledge of:

• IT contract and procurement processes industry and suppliers
• Business applications IT enterprise solutions IT infrastructure software and IT services
• General analytical and evaluation skills
• Financial and budget cycles
• Procurementtools and applications
• Presentation and negotiation acumen
• Project Management principles and methodologies
• Team leadership and influencing skills Microsoft Office applications
• ERP SaaS and cloud solutions

Skills and Abilities to:

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Approach problems through logical systematic and sequential processes
• Think logically and systematically; solve complex problems; effectively apply general principles to specific conditions
• Facilitate projects and meetings as assigned
• Work with all levels of the organization
• Analyze business and technical processes and determine ways of making them more efficient
• Remain calm under stress. Quickly adjust evolve and multitask between several competing priorities at once
• Maintain confidentiality and professionalism

Due to the nature of this position the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.