Contract Operations Job Description
Contract Operations Duties & Responsibilities
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Contract Operations Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Contract Operations
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Education for Contract Operations
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Skills for Contract Operations
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Contract Operations Examples
Contract Operations Job Description
- Plays a leadership role in cross functional initiatives involving new / updated pricing and contracting strategies, terms, conditions, contract compliance, and overall rebate revenue management
- Maintain all GPO, ACO, IDN, and Physician Group Membership requirements and effectively communicate with appropriate EMD Serono stakeholders
- Ensure appropriate and updated 340B membership requirements are met provide analytics and organizational controls to maintain standard operating procedures
- Facilitate setup and management of all new contracted customers, to include GPOs, IDNs, Specialty Distributors, Specialty Pharmacies, Physicians Groups, and appropriately contracted trade customers
- Partner with all stakeholders to ensure appropriate class of trade management for all EMD Serono products
- Ensure successful communication and partnership with all stakeholders to resolve any chargeback line items by analyzing pricing, eligibility, and customer lists to identify appropriate revenue management opportunities
- Partner with therapeutic and trade leads to ensure successful management of Specialty Pharmacy contracts
- Manage all product and pricing changes to appropriate internal and external stakeholders
- Act as the primary contact for all internal and external pricing inquiries related to customer pricing while insuring consistent compliance with contracts and guidelines
- Develop appropriate operating procedures related to pricing and pricing administration
- Direct Sales - Coordinates loan closing activities including interacting with credit to obtain additional information, contacting customers to advise of approvals and any documents required at closing, and scheduling appointments with the branch
- Ability to maintain confidentiality operate pertinent office and/or mechanical equipment
- Exposure to the Securities Operations like the CSC would be an asset
- Advanced Excel skills are a must with knowledge of Microsoft Access a plus
- Knowledge and understanding of the financial industry and capital markets would be an asset
- Experience within a competitive intelligence, business intelligence, financial planning and analytics unit, or strategy consulting
Contract Operations Job Description
- Support analytical input into the development and implementation of a world class pricing strategy within matrix team environment
- Maintains ownership of Corporate and Procurement Card programs, including expansion and compliance program
- Manages Voice of the Customer process to ensure customer feedback is collected and resolved
- Leverage and expand use of technology to ensure efficient process
- Maintain responsibility for accurate pricing by item and contract tier levels for all assigned contracts negotiated by Corporate Sales Team
- Track new items and submit to GPO new items with appropriate contract pricing for acceptance and inclusion on contract on a regular basis
- Manage uploading all pricing additions, changes, expirations, flags, and extensions in SAP required
- Notify GPO contract customers of discontinued items and replacements as necessary
- Develop RFPs as required
- Develop working knowledge of all pricing terms and conditions of all contracts
- Excellent customer or sales support experience
- Strong internet navigation knowledge
- Ideally 2+ years experiences in a similar role
- BS/BA with at least 10+ years of experience supporting Finance and Sales Operations management functions within the medical device industry
- Format and publish regulatory submission documents to ensure that they meet the company’s style and publishing guidelines
- Ongoing maintenance of submissions (including supplements/ amendments/ annual reports/ responses to FDA review letters & requests for information)
Contract Operations Job Description
- Develops working knowledge of product and product group classifications to determine proper discounts per contracts
- Prepares sales history data for analysis and submission to Corporate Sales customers
- Generates monthly/quarterly sales volume and administration fee reports according to terms of group purchasing agreements
- Create administrative fee check requests, validates payment amount with relevant product finance department and assures that payments are made in accordance with contract terms
- Develops working knowledge of contract pricing and administrative fee terms and conditions in order to develop processes and procedures to meet contract obligations
- Schedules regular review process of membership lists published by group purchasing organizations
- Maintains access, where necessary, to GPO websites to download such lists in accordance with contractual terms and conditions
- Timely processes membership additions and deletions identified on published lists and follows schedule to review each major GPO list according to standard operating procedures
- Receives hard copy and electronic requests for changes in contract tier levels
- Distributes requests as necessary to appropriate field personnel for validation
- Experience testing and QAing pixel implementation with web debugging tools (Fiddler, Chrome, Firefox applications)
- Minimum of 5 years directly related experience required
- Ensure regulatory timelines are properly established, maintained, and on-target
- Bachelors Degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent is required
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Acrobat
- Experience with StartingPoint templates and/or ISI Toolbox preferred
Contract Operations Job Description
- Maintains detailed files to document membership review procedure and contract tier changes, including creation of electronic copies of "Letters of Participation"
- Develop working knowledge of terms and conditions of all contract programs to provide guidance to Customer Service Representatives, and Sales Representatives
- Participates in negotiating and modifying standard contracts and assists in negotiating and modifying non-standard contracts/subcontracts
- Oversee evaluation process for incoming vehicles and authorize moving vehicles into secondary disposal versus auction remarketing stream according to established process
- Review of the service history, warranty work, vehicle history report, mechanical and cosmetic condition of incoming vehicles
- Oversee repair and campaign closure processes at auction to meet QA and VGCA compliance requirements
- Participate in meetings focused on benchmarking primary vehicle enhancement efforts in terms of timeliness to market, and cost effectiveness and positive ROI
- Manage vendor services and billing
- Provide support to other team members as necessary
- Facilitate ordering, inventory control and security for parts and tools
- Experience operating tag management platforms (Tealium, TagMan, BrightTag, Google Tag Manager)
- Library experience helpful but not required
- A minimum of 2 years relevant experience in the areas of pricing, contracting, forecasting, and financial modeling required
- Ability to collaborate and communicate with appropriate stakeholders to execute analysis in support of decision-making and planning
- Strong advanced analyses (analytical, quantitative, and qualitative) capabilities required to ensure quality and validity of data and resolve data problems as necessary
- Ability to perform advanced analyses required
Contract Operations Job Description
- Assure that all shop activities are performed in an efficient and safe manner that is compliant with all health and safety standards, environmental regulations
- Function as liaison between Sales and Supply in order to prepare customers’ offers (RFP) in an accurate and timely manner
- Process customers’ awards through the system from their initiation to completion, ensuring
- Provide feedback, training, and coaching to Contract Specialists
- Review of daily quotations insuring compliance with GSA pricing compliance
- Submit on-line web bid proposals for related RFQs
- Prepare Government shipment in accordance to Contract Labeling requirements
- Assist in the preparation and review of requests for State and/or Government proposals
- Monitor Contract Specialists to ensure all Government and GSA orders are processed in accordance to the Government Contract
- Coordinate with Legal, Sales Mgmt and others as needed
- Minimum of 1 years of Buy and Bill, GPO, Chargeback, and trade customer experience required
- Demonstrated knowledge of the healthcare, pharmaceutical, managed care, provider industry
- Extensive Experience in Managed Care Buy and Bill, trade, Chargeback, working with pricing data, and applying direct contracting experience preferred
- Ability to prioritize and respond to a high volume of work in a deadline intense environment
- Ability to work with sophisticated system applications
- Collaborate with and guide Clinical Operations and Research staff on project prioritization and resource assessment and allocation