Partnership and Contracts Manager V

Summary:

IDC Contracts seeks a highly engaged and experienced professional for a contract management role to support the IDC Contracts team. The IDC Contracts Program & Portfolio Contract Manager partners with multiple teams across the IDC organization and beyond to gather and understand operational and financial information to maximize contract value and reduce risk to IDC and Meta.

The successful candidate will be experienced in contract management, including deal formation, contract structure, legal and pricing negotiations. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support IDC Contracts from a deal strategy and operational efficiency perspective. Success in the role requires a high degree of process orientation, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, original thinking to proactively identify new and different approaches to structuring deals, and ability to work across multiple functions as a trusted advisor.

Responsibilities:

• Support the overall contract management function, including deal-to-contract intake, contract drafting, deal negotiation, maintaining contracts playbooks, and improving processes and systems.
• Partner with business leads to help navigate complex operations and spend initiatives with significant spend and risk; drive cross-functional contracts risk and cost containment efforts.
• Collaborate closely with business requesters and partners in Data Center Development; Design, Engineering & Construction; Facility Operations; Sourcing; In-house Legal Counsel; Finance; Business Risk & Insurance; and various Legal Compliance teams.
• Partner with business leads to help navigate complex operations and delivery initiatives with significant spend and risk; drive cross-functional contracts risk and cost containment efforts.
• Develop and continuously improve deal-to-contract strategies and procedures, ensuring compliance with company policies and controls.
• Manage and mitigate data and user privacy risk to ensure deal compliance.
• Develop and maintain customer relationships to ensure healthy and constructive interactions representing complex contracting issues to business partners.
• Coordinate and drive resolution to key business issues with legal, risk management, corporate contracts and business leads.
• Provide guidance and internal support for their functional program on best ways to structure deals.
• Ensure that signed contracts are complete and clearly communicated to all relevant parties, including interpretation to support implementation.
• Examine existing policies and procedures to optimize the end-to-end process from creation of the quote to the completion of signatures with all parties concerned.
• Share best practices with and provide training to team, peers, and outside business units to enhance the quality and efficiency of contracting processes.
• Ensure all approved requests have been properly documented, escalated to the appropriate approval level, and resolved within the applicable Service Level Agreement.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in contract management related to professional services
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, with degree or graduate degree in Supply Chain Management, Accounting, Legal Studies (JD), Business Administration, English, Engineering, Construction Administration, or similar.
• Experience using contract management software or systems to prepare, process and record contract and purchase transactions.
• Experience interpreting and complying with corporate policies.
• Experience working in a highly cross-functional environment with multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Law (J.D. or LL.M.), Contract Management, Legal Studies, or a closely related field.
• Infrastructure portfolio management, construction industry experience, or familiarity with service categories related to Data Center project and program management, such as general consulting, engineering, research & development, quality, testing, inspection, building management systems, artwork, furniture, and facility operations & maintenance.
• Experience leveraging AI to improve efficiency in daily workflows, including contract redlining, contract comparisons, contract abstracts, etc.
• Experience with process development and continuous improvement in contracts playbooks, deal-to-contract intake/pipelines, and other related procedures and tools

This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to Meta.

The pay range that Tundra in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $63.64/hour - $79.55 /hour.

Tundra’s benefits offering includes optional medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, up to 15 Days PTO per annum and a New Child Benefit.

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

The Meta CWX Program is enabled by a cutting-edge software platform called TalentNet that leads the contingent labor world for technology innovation. The software platform leverages Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to make sure the right people end up in the right job.

At Meta, we are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to connect people all over the world. That’s why it’s important that our workforce reflects the diversity of the people we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and points of view helps us make better decisions, build better products, and create better experiences for everyone.

We give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our products empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas, offer support, and make a difference.

This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to Meta. Please note that this is not a full-time employment opportunity. Candidates selected for this role will be engaged as contractors for the specified duration of the project. For any inquiries regarding the terms of the contract or engagement, please contact Tundra Technical Solutions directly.