# Contracts Agent - Power Delivery

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Atlanta, GA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

This position provides daily contracting and sourcing support to meet the service and material sourcing needs of our Power Delivery business partners.

The successful candidate will work closely with category management teams to develop contracts that support category management strategies and system-wide contracting requirements.

**Job Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Management, Finance, Law or other relevant technical disciplines preferred

- Formal education in contract language and law is preferred

- Experience in procurement or contracts is preferred; experience in contract sourcing and development, including direct experience with negotiating contract terms and conditions for services contracts, is strongly preferred

**Job Responsibilities**

- Provide daily support for all sourcing and 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 and price analysis, negotiations, risk assessment, preparing contract documents and agreements

- Champion the adoption of AI and other digital technologies within the contracting function by promoting best practices, identifying process improvement opportunities, and applying AI-enabled solutions to reduce manual effort, enhance contract lifecycle management, improve data quality, and support strategic sourcing and supplier management objectives

- 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

**Additional Details**

- Available to travel occasionally as needed, which may require an overnight stay

- The incumbent will be required to be in an office location four days per week in Atlanta

## Skills

### Required
- contract law
- contract negotiations
- procurement
- supply chain management

### Nice to have
- Maximo
- GEP
- contract drafting
- construction contract experience
- electric utility experience

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