Manager, Contract Project Management

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Visa’s Global Sourcing Operations and Enablement team has an opportunity for a creative, pragmatic and results oriented Contract Project Manager to join the Global Contracts Management team. This individual will be responsible to: support contract lifecycle management for Global Sourcing, manage continuous Source to Pay process improvement projects and systems and tools enhancements, support the contract lifecycle management integration of Merger and Acquisition entities and drive business and commercial contract negotiations.

We are looking for a candidate that is skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, challenging but highly rewarding environment, has good judgment and strong analytical, client counseling, and negotiation skills, is self-motivated, and, most importantly, is an optimistic, curious, and collaborative team player.

Our candidate must also be focused on delivering solutions and process efficiencies for contract lifecycle management and the Source to Pay process, through problem solving partnership with leaders and stakeholders like the Visa Legal Sourcing team and across the organization.

This role also offers a great opportunity to engage with and gain exposure to different functions across the organization and various leaders as part of the drive to streamline and make efficiencies, while working with global stakeholders and partners.

This role will report to the Senior Director of Contracts and Project Management, Global Sourcing Operations and Enablement.

Essential Functions:

• Build relationships and effectively partner across varied functions with internal stakeholders, external suppliers, leadership and colleagues to influence change
• Identify, plan and execute strategy for contract lifecycle management for Global Sourcing, including developing and implementing process improvement projects and tool enhancements
• Support integration of Merged and Acquired entities including contract repository migration, contract novation and other activities as identified
• Negotiate and drive commercial and business contracts that achieve business objectives with Global Sourcing, Legal and Risk Stakeholder teams (Service Agreements, Software as a Service, Assignments, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Amendments and more)
• Provide creative counseling and advice to teams regarding commercial and contracting considerations, including template and schedule guidance
• Own and manage Global Sourcing’s contract template library, including drafting and delivering guidance and training material in partnership with global stakeholders
• Act as Project Manager for key initiatives for the Operations and Enablement team and broader Sourcing team
• Coordinate workflow and address escalated items (before escalating items to team manager)
• Provide periodic project updates to drive progress and accountability, identifying areas needing support and leadership guidance
• Establish and enforce Sourcing contract negotiation processes as well as governance programs to standardize tools and processes across regions and to ensure contracts comply with company policies and regulatory requirements
• Support audit and compliance activities related to Global Sourcing contracting process
• Perform contract risk assessments on existing agreements to determine compliance, formulate mitigation strategies after coordinating with stakeholders, and help negotiate any agreements to ensure compliance
• Communicate effectively and frequently, listen carefully, and actively seek and value the perspectives of others
• Drive completion of simultaneous projects by proactively considering new alternatives and driving critical thinking to optimize results

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree or 2 years'
experience with an Advanced