Hybrid Project Manager, Contracts bei None

Job purpose

The Project Manager, Contracts serves as a critical connector across sales, contracts, customer service, product management, and marketing teams to ensure efficient contract management, bid support, and strategic market opportunities. This role drives execution and alignment of projects supporting contract implementation, compliance, and lifecycle management while fostering strong partner relationships and maintaining deep product knowledge.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a central liaison between sales, contracts, customer service, product, and marketing teams on contract projects.
• Facilitate cross-departmental coordination involving credit, banking, IT, customer care, spec, project management, and HR to support contract activities.
• Provide pricing, timelines, and follow-ups for bid and quoting opportunities. 
• Lead qualification: assess and prioritize bid opportunities strategically.
• Conduct bid/solicitation reviews and coordinate timely responses.
• Maintain deep understanding of company products and competitor offerings to support effective bidding and contracting.
• Support timelines and tasks as it relates to redlining, negotiation, and execution of agreements.
• Oversee contract implementation, compliance evaluations, eligibility determinations, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor expirations, timelines, and deliverable updates to ensure compliance and renewals.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with contract partners, including participation in conferences, summits, and industry events (travel required).
• Review sales reports, analyze historical data, and identify market trends and opportunity development strategies.
• Conduct trainings for internal teams and external partners on relevant contract, product, and process topics.
• Manage vendor registrations and assist in timely execution of contract orders, including quoting, ordering, and invoicing as needed.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, Contracts Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong knowledge of bidding processes, compliance evaluations, and contract lifecycle management.
• Excellent relationship-building, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in sales reporting and market research.
• Willingness to travel for conferences, summits, and partner meetings as needed.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; familiarity with contract management or CRM software is a plus.
• Strategic thinking and bid assessment
• Attention to detail and compliance focus
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Negotiation and problem-solving
• Results-driven execution
• Adaptability and continuous learning
• Microsoft Office, Outlook & Dynamics Word and AS400 experience.

Working conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. 

Physical requirements

While performing the duties of this Job, she/he is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  She/he is frequently required to talk or hear.  Occasional walking is required; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Direct reports

No direct reports