Contract Management Specialist - Düsseldorf, Deutschland - RIZE Recruitment

Beschreibung

Contract Management Specialist for global telecoms company based in Germany

My client a leading telecoms vendor is looking to recruit a contract management specialist who has previous and relevant experience working for a telecoms company within the German market.

Successful candidates will be responsible for managing medium moderate to high-risk projects with multiple inter-dependencies, collaborating among cross-functional team, customers, and partners.

You will be managing the status of the contracts with my clients clients, tracking the expiry dates, executing content updates and changes to the SOWs. This includes involvement in contractual negotiations, direct contact with key client stakeholders and reviewal of contractual obligations and SLAs set to ensure their fulfilment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage client contracting process from contract creation to completion and sign off;
• Provide cross functional leadership and collaborate internally and with clients to determine project goals and objectives;
• Execute project lifecycle and lead each project and/or release.
• Ensure that the project has completed the relevant gate requirements and that deliverables have been properly reviewed by stakeholders;
• Lead and advocate PM best practices of integration, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and procurement management;
• Manage project related communications within and outside of the project.
• Proactively identify and communicate impacts to internal and external stakeholders.
• Freely provide information regarding project progress and scope using a project dashboard and/or internal/external status reports;
• Identify and socialize project success metrics to the internal team and to external stakeholders.
• Evaluate project progress and results against success metrics by developing scorecards that monitor performance to meet KPIs and SLAs agreed with clients, reporting any issues to Leadership;
• Effectively identify and resolves issues. Approve scope/cost/schedule/quality changes through the project sponsor(board);
• Proactively identify risks, communicate risks to appropriate stakeholders and develop a risk mitigation strategy and a contingency plan;
• Define acceptance criteria, prioritize stakeholder requirements and define the scope boundaries;
• Estimate project investment and request budget allocation and reallocations.
• Ensure budget compliance and track, report, and close out expenses and contractual obligations;
• Track resource utilization and resolve resource constraints;
• Identify and establish partnerships with stakeholders to build support, secure sponsorship, and ensure alignment for project outcomes, end-products and/or solution;
• Create or re-engineer processes, resources, structure to gain productivity and improve project;
• Follow up on action items for performance improvement;

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

• University Education (Bachelor's or Master's degree in) with specific understanding of German legislations;
• Experience and background in German/ EU contract management , legislations in telecom industry is an advantage
• Hands-on experience in telecommunication industry, mobile network service (networks, circuits, VoIP etc.) or any equivalent area in an international environment with good understanding of its technology, main players, market trends and vendors;
• Experience in project scoping, planning, management, execution and controlling.
• Knowledge of Wiki, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint or similar, MS Project, Smartsheet or similar and MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) or similar;
• Experience in contractual negotiations, management, revisions and sign-off
• Knowledge/Experience of procurement, budgeting and cost control processes;
• Experience in stakeholder management, business networking, contract negotiations and partner relationships;
• Proficient in English and Native or Bilingual Proficiency in German.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• BS/BA degree or equivalent plus 4-6+ years related experience;
• Master's certification in project management (i.e., CAPM from the Project Management Institute, CSM from Scrum Alliance, or PMP from Project Management Institute, PMBoK concepts, terminology and methodology)