Job Description
The Contract Specialist plays a crucial role in supporting Agilent’s business operations by managing contractual matters. This position oversees a portfolio of Agilent contracts, directly facilitating revenue generation while ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
The role involves close collaboration with various Agilent departments to identify and execute appropriate contractual solutions for different business situations. This includes overseeing the entire process from contract request to signature and system activation. Once a contract is established, the Contract Specialist monitors and maintains it throughout its validity.
The Contract Specialist leverages Agilent’s tools to enhance efficiency and transparency regarding the contractual rights and obligations of all parties. They work closely with a broad range of internal teams and may interact directly with external parties for contract negotiations or collaborate with a Contract Negotiator or Enterprise Counsel.
This role requires a highly collaborative, detail-oriented, and business-minded individual capable of managing a wide range of contractual matters while fostering strong relationships with business stakeholders and Legal department members.
Key Responsibilities
Contract Management:
- Serves as the first point of contact for contract requests from Agilent internal teams, working with requestors to define the appropriate contractual solutions.
- Manages the end-to-end contract process in a timely and accurate manner, including drafting, reviewing, obtaining signatures, and activating contracts in line with Agilent policies while driving positive customer experience.
- Monitors and maintains contracts throughout their validity, amending and renewing them as necessary.
- Involves other members of the Legal department or internal stakeholders as consultants, approvers, or as otherwise needed to ensure full compliance with relevant processes and requirements.
- Effectively leverages Agilent tools such as SAP, Contract Lifecycle Management Tools, Microsoft Office solutions, and others to manage contracts
- Routinely uses reports and analytics to manage the contract portfolio, resolve data discrepancies and identify opportunities for improvement.
Contract negotiation:
- Negotiates contractual terms and conditions, escalating to Contract Negotiator as required
Collaboration with Business and Legal Stakeholders:
- Collaborates closely with various departments to ensure contractual obligations are clearly defined, communicated, understood, and met.
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Creates materials and deliver presentations to make contractual processes transparent to stakeholders and collaborators.
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Routinely collaborates with other members of the Legal team and internal organizations on projects and initiatives aimed at improving internal processes and tools, as well as other business-related projects.
Contract Template Management
- Collaborates with other legal team members in defining, maintaining and localizing the contract templates
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master's Degree: Often in Business Administration, Law, Finance, or a related field.
- Language requirements: English and one additional European language are required, preferably French (for both professional proficiency level - ability to understand and draft contractual wording). Additional European languages are a plus.
- Contractual Knowledge: Subject matter expert of Agilent contract models, applicable terms and associated processes
- Business Acumen: Understands the business drivers and financial implications of contractual decisions.
- Problem-Solving: Develop solutions to complex problems using logical and systematic approaches.
- Collaboration: Works effectively with colleagues across different functions and levels.
- Communication: Communicates and presents contractual concepts clearly and concisely tailored to the audience and based on clear objectives
- Innovation: Seeks out and implements innovative solutions to contractual challenges.
- Negotiation Skills: Understand and effectively apply negotiation skills to reach mutually beneficial agreements, whether it's for contract terms or resolving conflicts.
- Growth Mindset: Being curious, open to change and proactive in learning new skills, especially in fast-paced environments to stay updated with industry trends.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to meticulously review contracts to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Why Join Agilent?
At Agilent, we believe in rewarding talent and commitment. Here’s what we offer to make your experience with us truly exceptional:
- Competitive Pay & Benefits: Enjoy a top-tier compensation package, complemented by global benefits for all employees.
- Agilent Result Bonus: Celebrate success with a bonus tied to our collective achievements.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage
- Growth Opportunities: Access a variety of internal and external training programs to support your career development.
- Restaurant ticket
- Stay Active: gym membership
- Work-Life Balance: Enjoy the flexibility to work remotely up to two days a week, empowering you to balance professional and personal priorities.
- Certified "Great Place to Work": We are proud of our culture, which fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.
- World-Class Office: Work in the heart of Barcelona at the iconic World Trade Centre, where you’ll enjoy high-end facilities, and breathtaking sea views every day.
- Purpose-Driven Impact: Join a team committed to delivering solutions that help our customers improve the world around us.
Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the trusted answers and insights they seek -- so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com
Additional Details
This job has a full time weekly schedule.
Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location. Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations
Agilent Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.Travel Required: OccasionalShift: DayDuration: No End DateJob Function: Legal
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What We Do
Analytical scientists and clinical researchers worldwide rely on Agilent to help fulfill their most complex laboratory demands. Our instruments, software, services and consumables address the full range of scientific and laboratory management needs—so our customers can do what they do best: improve the world around us.
Whether a laboratory is engaged in environmental testing, academic research, medical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals or food testing, Agilent provides laboratory solutions to meet their full spectrum of needs. We work closely with customers to help address global trends that impact human health and the environment, and to anticipate future scientific needs. Our solutions improve the efficiency of the entire laboratory, from sample prep to data interpretation and management.
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