Manages supplier contract processes and provides legal support for the FAB/ATP sourcing category. Responsibilities include contract drafting, negotiation support, risk assessment, compliance, audit readiness, claim management, template and process development, contract tracking, and collaboration with sourcing, legal, compliance, suppliers, and category teams.
The Supplier Contract Manager plays an important role within NI Strategic Sourcing (NISS), serving as the primary legal process and contract point of contact for the Master Category team. This position supports the FAB/ATP team in legal topics and contract negotiations by analyzing needs, proposing innovative ideas aligned with business requirements, and ensuring contractual activities are traceable, transparent, and compliant with Nokia policies and regulations. The Contract Manager drives the implementation of activities, templates, processes, and legal specific requirements to optimize category management skill sets. The Contract Manager orchestrates cooperation between NISS and NI Legal & Compliance (L&C).
Responsibilities
- Contract Management & Legal Support:
- Support NI Strategic Sourcing FAB/ATP Master Category in legal topics and contract negotiations.
- Analyze needs and propose straightforward and innovative ideas in line with business requirements.
- Implement and maintain the contractual Mode of Operation for FAB/ATP in alignment with other Contract Managers in the NISS team, ensuring traceability, transparency, and compliance with Nokia policies and regulations.
- Provide close collaboration with the category team, supporting legal and contracting activities (drafting/set-up, negotiations, escalations, signatures, storing, and archiving) in cooperation with NI Sourcing Operations and L&C.
- Support the supplier manager in the claim management process.
- Support in Power of Attorney questions.
- Monitor contract coverage targets for the FAB/ATP Master Category.
- Compliance & Risk Mitigation:
- Ensure adherence to legal, compliance, SOX, and legal audit requirements.
- Conduct legal process and contract risk assessments.
- Identify and mitigate risks in contracts.
- Process and Tool Adherence:
- Implement templates, processes, and legal specific requirements to optimize category management skill sets.
- Drive innovation in the legal landscape, with other Contract Managers including CLM tool assessment and enhancement
- Share best practices.
Key Inputs:
- Legal process & contract assessment, draft, negotiation support
- Legal process & contract risk assessment
- Use case specific contract templates
- Contract consolidation
Best practice sharing
Key Interfaces:
- Head of NI Sourcing Operations, FAB/ATPM Master Category Head, Category Managers
- NI L&C
- NISS Contract Managers
- Supplier Quality Teams
- Suppliers
- Process & Contract management expertise
- Strong legal understanding
- Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills
- Ability to identify and mitigate risk in contracts
- Effective communication at all levels
- Ability to work across boundaries
- Influencing others and assertiveness
- Strong decision quality
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