Constance Williams
Monroe,WA
Summary
Experienced professional with a proven track record of success in the field. Recognized for exceptional cost-saving abilities, saving over $800,000 in yearly renewals. Demonstrated leadership skills by creating a standard operating procedure (SOP) for a newly formed ISG team. Consistently delivers outstanding results, evident by receiving the 'Clearly the Best' award for two consecutive years. Dedicated and driven individual who consistently exceeds expectations and strives for excellence in all endeavors.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Business Analyst/Contracts
ALBERTSONS, INC
03.2022 - 09.2023
- Process improvement for the business
- Project management
- RFP initiation and follow through
- Review agreements/redline support Sr Strategic Sourcing managers with agreements (i.e, Microsoft licensing and renewals)
- Updated and maintained the team SharePoint
- Created sites for collaboration on TEAMs
- Data mitigation and privacy/GDPR
- Build relationships with the team and stakeholders, including Director/SVP and VP levels and Legal
- Built and managed the Albertsons relationship with our India team (ISG), management, training, process implementation, communication protocol
- This team supports our team and our ITAM team to renewal agreements and negotiate lower fees
- $1.4 million in savings
- Merged with Kroger
Business Compliance Specialist
FACEBOOK VIA CRYSTAL EQUATION, INC
04.2021 - 02.2022
- Review internal Agreements in flight
- Ability to distinguish areas of risk or important call outs in an agreement
- Analyze trends in the agreements reviewed
- Communicate findings in a summary report
- Provide recommendations on how to mitigate risks identified in agreements
- Communicating contingent workforce initiatives to vendor contacts
- Audit current Contingent Worker contracts, access misclassifications
- Recommend process improvements
- Review contracts for vendor updates, dba’s, inactive vendors
Sr Contract Analyst
PREMERA BLUE CROSS
03.2020 - 03.2021
- Review/redline and develop contracts, amendments, and terminations
- Work with internal business teams to educate and support as needed
- Develop policy and procedure, best practices, or knowledge content, for a large region of the organization to ensure data sharing governance and management guidelines are developed and aligned with enterprise guidelines and data governance strategy
- Ensure data sharing and information principles, policies, standards; controls are following the organizations and government policies
- Provide regular status updates to all stakeholders on timing and costs of engagement efforts
- Participate in/facilitate review sessions as needed, engaging appropriate subject matter experts to meet to define, develop and finalize policies
- Ensure that efforts are aligned with formal processes and final sign-off occurs
- Identify areas where new policies and procedures need to be developed or refined based on current and future enterprise or data management initiatives, drive the written knowledge expansion development process, and ensure appropriate documentation and communication when finalized
- Ensure that the same data governance rigor is being applied in the evaluation processes, that appropriate legal/compliance documentation is being completed, and to streamline/consolidate decision-making when appropriate
Contract Manager
UNIFY CONSULTING
10.2019 - 02.2020
- Salesforce review and update
- Support Account Managers and clients – T-Mobile, Microsoft, Amazon, Premera Blue Cross etc
- Create BRD for Contract Management in Salesforce
- Workflow
- Contractor on boarding – off boarding
- Work with T-Mobile for network access via Fieldglass
- Review and draft MASOW, SOW, LOE, new and renewals – our paper and clients
- Initiate background checks for consultants
- Work with finance on billing issues
Contract Manager
THE EVERETT CLINIC A PART OF OPTUMCARE
05.2019 - 10.2019
- Reviews, revise/drafts IT related contracts (includes, terms & conditions, amendments, statements of work, software license agreements, etc., (on vendor paper)
- Low to high complexity and risk using knowledge of IT, policies, and processes
Sr. Contract Specialist
VIRATE, LLC
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Company Overview: Support ORACLE DATA CLOUD TEAM
- Review GDPR rules and processes
- Work with sales to make sure onboard of vendors is followed under Privacy Policy
- Audit Enterprise and Retail Agreements
- Support ORACLE DATA CLOUD TEAM
Sr. Contract Paralegal
DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LLC
10.2017 - 06.2018
- Research – GDPR updating SharePoint for Legal Team
- Contracts – Review drafting
- Projects as required
Director – Business Development
APOLLO EDUCATION GROUP
11.2015 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: PHOENIX, AZ
- Contract review and drafting of MSA, SOW, NDA, CONSULTING, SEMINARS, TRAINING, TUITION REDUCTION
- Updating and writing Standard Operating Processes
- PHOENIX, AZ
Sr. Contract Specialist
JDA SOFTWARE
02.2014 - 11.2015
- Company Overview: PHOENIX, AZ
- Audit of JDA’s contractor process – defining at risk, term limits and drafting the new Contractor Staffing Policy
- Contract drafting and review of JDA’s 1500 contractors nationwide
- Review of contractor onboarding and off boarding; working closely with the IT team for Serengeti (a software that allows outside attorney’s and firms bill for work provided) billing process, implement and automate the accrual process
- Defined new process for Sales contract signing via DocuSign
- Team management – managed two Legal Assistance
- PHOENIX, AZ
Sr. Paralegal III
T-MOBILE USA, INC.
10.2012 - 12.2013
- Supported two Senior Corporate Counsel in Legal Affairs for the business units that develop and deliver T-Mobile’s innovative new products
- Program Management of ongoing matters such as CVAA (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act) and CTIA (The Wireless Association)
- Understanding of Conflict Minerals, Vendor questionnaires and reporting
Sr. Manager, Contract Law Group – Legal Team
CLEARWIRE CORP.
11.2006 - 10.2012
- Company Overview: MERGED WITH SPRINT
- Manage the contract administration team of 8
- Onboarding and offboarding of company contractors, SOW drafting, IT set up, auditing
- Designing and implementing Clearwire’s internal web portal CONTRACT REQUEST TRACKING SYSTEM (CRTS) for Clearwire Employees to request Contracts and Contractors
- Draft PSA’s, MSA’s, SOW’s, as necessary, working with Corporate Counsel, and Sales teams, as needed
- MERGED WITH SPRINT
Education
Certification - Purchasing Management
University of Washington
Seattle, WAContracts, Purchasing, Inventory Management
Seattle Community College
Seattle, WASeminars, Negotiations, Understanding Contracts, Government Contracting
National Association of Purchasing Management
Skills
- Microsoft Office365
- Oracle
- GDPR
- Redlining
- SharePoint
- Business Writing
- Contract Drafting
- Negotiations
- Salesforce
Awards
- Clearly the Best
- 2008
- 2009
- Clearwire
Certification
Purchasing Management
Timeline
Sr. Business Analyst/Contracts
ALBERTSONS, INC
03.2022 - 09.2023
Business Compliance Specialist
FACEBOOK VIA CRYSTAL EQUATION, INC
04.2021 - 02.2022
Sr Contract Analyst
PREMERA BLUE CROSS
03.2020 - 03.2021
Contract Manager
UNIFY CONSULTING
10.2019 - 02.2020
Contract Manager
THE EVERETT CLINIC A PART OF OPTUMCARE
05.2019 - 10.2019
Sr. Contract Specialist
VIRATE, LLC
06.2018 - 05.2019
Sr. Contract Paralegal
DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LLC
10.2017 - 06.2018
Director – Business Development
APOLLO EDUCATION GROUP
11.2015 - 03.2016
Sr. Contract Specialist
JDA SOFTWARE
02.2014 - 11.2015
Sr. Paralegal III
T-MOBILE USA, INC.
10.2012 - 12.2013
Sr. Manager, Contract Law Group – Legal Team
CLEARWIRE CORP.
11.2006 - 10.2012
Certification - Purchasing Management
University of Washington
Contracts, Purchasing, Inventory Management
Seattle Community College
Seminars, Negotiations, Understanding Contracts, Government Contracting
National Association of Purchasing Management
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