Contracts Coordinator

Contracts CoordinatorThe Contracts Coordinator is responsible for purchase orders creation in Takeda's procurement systems for Global Medical. This will be achieved by applying Takeda processes, systems, and SOPs, processing of purchase order requests and follow to completion in Takeda system(s), ensuring appropriateness is applied in coding, and working with business owners and legal to resolve contracting issues.Accountabilities include processing contracts requests to generate purchase orders (PO) following defined procedures in support of Global Medical teams, following PO requests from initiation to PO generation, resolving issues as they arise, monitoring activities related to the PO generation status, including timely follow-up with parties involved to mitigate any delays, and numeric verification of contract values to PO value.Knowledge of Takeda's purchasing systems, understanding and ability to apply financial account codes to PO requests, engaging with business owners and all who are involved in the process, and other responsibilities and special projects as assigned.Education, behavioral competencies, and skills include a high school diploma with 5+ years of business experience (or equivalent), prior experience on contracts, purchasing processes, and purchase to pay systems, strong organizational skills, ability to track activities and follow-up to completion, good critical thinking skills, sense of ownership and results oriented, self-motivated, flexibility combined with tenacity to complete assigned tasks in high quality and timely manner, effective communication skills, proficiency in English (written/spoken), team focused personality with strong collaboration abilities both internally and externally, proficiency in MS Office applications, ability to quickly learn and apply skills in processing and systems, ability to predict issues, anticipate risks and solve problems, issue identification and independent resolution, flexibility, tolerance, and diplomacy to best manage change and differing opinions.