Contract Specialist

Company Description:

InEight is a leader in construction project controls software, empowering over 850 companies taking on challenging projects in industries including construction and engineering; transportation infrastructure; mining; water; power and renewables; and oil, gas and chemical. Uniquely suited to capital construction and other complex work, our integrated modular software manages projects with over $1 trillion globally.

Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, InEight supports a remote work model with employees working throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka and Europe. InEight, an ISO 9001:2015-registered company, is a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation (Kiewit). Kiewit, through its subsidiaries, is one of North America's largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations.

InEight is a fast-paced, innovative company comprised of high-energy teams of self-starters playing integral roles in shaping the future of capital projects around the world. Our industry-leading solutions, dedicated employees, and proven leadership team provide a solid foundation to support our continued growth and success.

We offer our fulltime employees a comprehensive benefits package that's among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

About The Role:

As a member of the Global Sales team, the Contract Specialist will assume a strategic role in the software sales division with primary day-to-day responsibility for creating, tracking, and managing software sales and services contracts primarily in North America.

This position will supplement the efforts and responsibilities of the Global Contracts Team and work closely with Sales, Services and Sales Operations teams related to contract activity. The ideal candidate brings prior SaaS or software contracting experience and can quickly become productive in a fast-paced sales environment.

* This is a remote position and candidates are ideally located in the US.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft software sales and services agreements based on standard contract principles.

• Review existing contracts, purchase orders, and proposals to facilitate writing new orders.

• Update customer files with contract data and negotiated terms.

• Create, track and manage changes outside of the standard agreement terms.

• Ability to create contract variations based on prior agreements.

• Use MS Office, Salesforce, Conga, and SharePoint to track and manage contracts.

• Provide back-up to other team members in other regions, as necessary.

• Negotiate acceptable terms and conditions as needed, keeping in mind company’s risk profile and intellectual property.

• Coordinating proposals and RFP responses in a project manager role, while also ensuring proposals meet InEight’s risk compliance requirements.

• Drafting contract notices and termination letters.

• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001: 2015 procedures and US trade and export restrictions.

• Other projects and responsibilities as needed.

Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of experience managing and negotiating contracts in a commercial, sales-driven environment

• Experience within a software or technology organization strongly preferred

• Experience coordinating RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, and proposal responses in partnership with internal teams strongly preferred

• Familiarity with procurement and sourcing processes a plus.

• US government contracting and/or negotiating is a plus.

• Experience with Salesforce, Conga CLM, or other Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms is strongly preferred.

• MS Office proficiency required

• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

• Professional business communication skills relating to external customers, sales teams and senior leadership is ideal.

• Complex problem solving and critical thinking skills.

• Must be detail-oriented and able to multi-task.

• Ability to work at a fast pace and be flexible.

• Must be able to work independently in a remote environment.

• Comfortable with repetitive actions and volume of contract processing.

• Contract Management Certification is a plus, though experience reading and creating contracts from a template is more important to this role.

InEight Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, (EOE) and will consider all applications without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

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