# Contract Agent - GPC Generation

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Birmingham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

This position will provide daily contracting and sourcing support to meet the acquisition needs for services and materials. The successful candidate will work closely with our category management strategies in support of contracting requirements.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide daily support of all sourcing & contracting activities, including advising customers on Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) preparation, lead pre-bid meetings, review of offers upon receipt from bidders, cost & price analysis, negotiations, risk assessment, preparing contract documents and agreements;

- Lead sourcing projects, assist in developing and implementing strategic programs for the procurement of Equipment and Services;

- Develop the sourcing strategy for low to high risk services;

- Manage relationships with the company’s vendors and ensure efficient and transparent contracting and negotiation process to reduce costs, improve commercial terms and reduce duplication of efforts;

- Maintain effective, professional communication to keep internal customers up to date on contracts development process;

- Work cross functionally to improve and streamline processes;

- Ensure that overall risk is properly controlled and mitigated;

- Develop a detailed knowledge of the Southern Company and Operating Company procurement policies/procedures and have the capability to become a Subject Matter Expert (SME);

- Ensure all required terms and conditions are included in procurement documents and work with legal, risk management and financial services (accounting) to resolve contractor exceptions and issues in a timely manner;

- Draft contract language, including special conditions for complex, non-standard purchases;

- Identify and evaluate new sources of supply, domestic and globally, when necessary to meet customer needs, including performing market research and analysis;

- Build and maintain a fundamental to proficient knowledge of our contracting systems utilized in daily support;

- Conflict Resolution, the ability to engage and fix identified issues;

- Maintain the primary interface with contractors in an ethical and respectful manner while protecting the company's interests.

**Job Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree required;

- BS in Business, Management, Finance, or Law is preferred;

- Formal education in contract language and law is highly preferred;

- Knowledge of contract law and drafting of terms and conditions (required);

- Legal and commercial negotiation skills (required);

- Self-motivated and ability to work with minimal supervision;

- Customer focused with ability to build and maintain relationships with internal customers, suppliers, contractors and other key stakeholders;

- Effectively handle tight deadlines, large workloads, and multiple projects with positive enthusiasm;

- Superior written and oral communication, to successfully negotiate contract terms and write such contracts in a clear, logical and concise manner;

- Candidate must have effective influencing and consensus-building skills;

- Strategic focus on problem-solving;

- Excellent organizational skills are required to plan and manage assigned workload and customer expectations effectively to meet internal business unit requirements;

- Ability to think strategically and apply broad seasoned judgment to decisions;

- Analytical and interpersonal skills;

- Ability to effectively work and participate in cross-functional and cross-company teams at all levels in the organization to ensure buy-in by multiple companies when working on system projects;

- Must demonstrate behaviors consistent with the Southern Company values of Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Acting with Integrity and  Superior Performance;

- Self-motivated;

- Customer focused;

- Strong work ethic;

- Exhibits a strong sense of urgency;

- Promotes teamwork;

- Practices ethical behavior;

- Displays creativity, initiative, and flexibility;

- Learns from and utilizes experience.

## Skills

### Required
- contract law
- drafting of terms and conditions
- legal and commercial negotiation skills
- self-motivation
- customer focus
- effective communication
- influencing and consensus-building skills
- problem-solving
- organizational skills
- strategic thinking
- analytical and interpersonal skills