Paralegal Contracts Manager (Procurement)

Epiq Counsel is partnering with our leading utility company based on the west coast that provides electricity and natural gas.

This role offers a wonderful long-term contract opportunity as it's set for a 1-2 year in duration depending on your qualification.

Hours: 40 hours per week

Schedule: 8-4 pm PST

Duration: 2-year contract

Setup: Fully Remote

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10 plus years of experience as a Paralegal or JD within Procurement or Contract Management
• Experience with customer energy contracts as well as service contracts for customer-facing interactions including those with software components.
• Experience with legislatively mandated energy savings.
• Strong presentation, project management, negotiation, and redlining skills are required, as well as demonstrated conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of contracting concepts and commercial law.
• Excellent ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risk.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Experience identifying legal, compliance, regulatory, and operational issues requiring subject matter expertise
• Ability to present highly complex topics in an effective and concise manner to broad-based audiences including various levels of management.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively, both as a team member and independently.
• Excellent customer service, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without positional authority.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with eProcurement Source-to-Pay tools desirable, Ariba specifically.
• Experience in Contract Lifecycle Management tools desirable.
• Understanding of procurement governance, processes, and policies.
• Strong analytical and interpretive skills to recognize, comprehend, and assess data, as well as complex issues and industry information.
• Previous people management/coaching/development a plus.
• Experience in a regulated industry a plus (UTC, WEC, FERC).
• Experience with rebate programs, grant funded projects, non-profit and community based projects, partnership projects
• Experience with customer-facing software and engagement services for residential and local business customers.
• Experience with service contracts for customer education.

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

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