Kenya Rogers
Dallas,Texas
Summary
Professional Contract Manager with a proven track record of supporting multiple business operations in establishing contracts while maintaining rigorous financial control to optimize the performance of the company's contracting portfolio. Highly organized and dedicated to meeting competing deadlines, successfully supported multi-billion-dollar companies by effectively interfacing with commercial and government executives. Expertise lies in drafting, negotiating, establishing, and managing contracts to ensure seamless operations and drive business growth.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Contract Manager
Children’s Health System of Texas
12.2022 - Current
- Draft, review, negotiate, and execute a broad range of contracts and agreements, such as: Nondisclosure Agreements, Consultant Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Master Services and Product Agreements, and Federal, State and Local Municipality Contracts.
- Complete comprehensive reviews of customer contracts and terms and conditions to identify, mitigate, and eliminate unusual risks, liabilities, and remedies in accordance with Corporate polices and sound business judgment.
- Negotiate contracts with suppliers; evaluates bids and proposals and makes award decisions in collaboration with key stakeholders and business owners; reviews and interprets vendor contracts for accuracy and completeness
- Manage contracts with suppliers to ensure supplier compliance; analyzes supplier change requests to existing contracts and recommends changes or revisions
- Participates on procurement sourcing teams for research, bid and contract management of supplies and services
- Participates in strategic planning to target future cost savings with appropriate vendors and stakeholders
- Tracks markets to anticipate customer needs, makes changes according to those needs and the impact to existing contracts or development of future contracts, monitors inflation and its impact on forecasting
- Evaluates supplier performance through review of reports, business meetings and customer feedback; resolves issues and implements solutions to address negative supplier performance.
- Managed, supervised and controlled execution of contracts ranging from $5,00.00 to $80,000,000.
Contract Negotiator II
Parkland Hospital
03.2020 - 11.2022
- Spearheaded contract negotiations and drafting with clients, vendors, and suppliers.
- Managed the development, review, and revision of contractual arrangements with outside organizations doing business with Parkland and its programs to ensure compliance with Parkland’s policies and procedures
- Facilitated competitive procurements in accordance with the Dallas County Hospital District’ requirements and timelines
- Analyzed price and non-price factors across multiple vendor offerings in determining the cost savings and cost avoidance service gains and other non-price factors that were in the Districts’ best business interest
- Solicited and registered vendors and contractors, facilitated the evaluation process which included confirming the bids, and compiling, validating, and processing required documentation necessary to conduct business with the District.
- Provided interpretation of contract terms and conditions to management and other functional disciplines within the business unit.
- Conducted comprehensive reviews of contract terms to identify risks and opportunities.
Proposal Manager
Precision for Medicine
10.2018 - 03.2020
- Reviewed request for proposals (RFP) and request for information (RFI) from pharmaceutical companies for the purpose of interpreting complex protocols to formulate and execute detailed proposals/budgets
- Reconciled budget to Operational Specific Document at predetermined time points over the course of awarded studies
- Facilitated the scoping and proposal development meetings, developed pricing for quotes and proposals, wrote proposal text, completed RFI responses, and tracking opportunities in Salesforce.com through award
- Performed quality control edits on all documents while ensuring consistency between text and budget and timely submission of proposals.
- Analyzed client RFPs to identify key requirements, enabling tailored responses that addressed specific needs.
Senior Business Analyst, Pricing & Contracting
Abbott
03.2016 - 10.2018
- Successfully completed an average of 852 contracts per quarter with an average turn-around time of 1.9 days
- Contract types consisted of Bridge to Budgets, Budgetary Quotes, Cash Purchases, Cash Rentals, Disposal Purchases, Disposal Rentals, Evaluations, QP Offsets, Quantity Purchases and Service Agreements
- Owned contract creation from conception to completion by effectively collaborating with the sales team to define price needs, performed analysis to determine financial impact, facilitated internal review for price approval and final creation of outbound contract offering to end customer.
Contract Administrator / Project Coordinator
Randstad
06.2012 - 06.2015
- Managed Salesforce and pre-sales processes, which included generating reports for sales effectiveness
- Created and converted Proposals to Contracts, managed MSAs for all Accounts, and utilized CRM reports to track and report on all pre-sale activity, while communicating with sales and operations team on status and timelines
- Assisted in ensuring that project specific contract obligations and deliverables were completed in accordance with the project schedule and contract, acquired customer approval for changes and submitted change orders as needed.
Education
Certificate Course - Contract Management
Villanova University
Remote05.2024
Certificate Program - Professional Contract Management
National Contract Management Association
Remote12.2022
Certificate Program - Project Management
Southern Poly State University
Marietta, GA09.2013
MBA - Business Administration And Management
University of Phoenix
Atlanta, GA07.2007
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology - Sociology
University of South Carolina
Aiken, SC12.1998
Skills
- Contract Drafting, Negotiating, Redlining and Administration
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Windows, Microsoft Access, Outlook, Excel
- Enterprise Software (Navision)
- SAP Business Objects
- Pulse Analytics
- SharePoint
- Contract Management Software: Infor (Lawson), Upside (Contract Management Software), CRM – Salesforce, Icertis, Salesforce, Service Now, Agiloft, SPS (Supplemental Pre-Sales Support) System, Jaggaer
- Cost Control
- Legal Compliance
- Procurement Management
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Contract Manager
Children’s Health System of Texas
12.2022 - Current
Contract Negotiator II
Parkland Hospital
03.2020 - 11.2022
Proposal Manager
Precision for Medicine
10.2018 - 03.2020
Senior Business Analyst, Pricing & Contracting
Abbott
03.2016 - 10.2018
Contract Administrator / Project Coordinator
Randstad
06.2012 - 06.2015
Certificate Course - Contract Management
Villanova University
Certificate Program - Professional Contract Management
National Contract Management Association
Certificate Program - Project Management
Southern Poly State University
MBA - Business Administration And Management
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology - Sociology
University of South Carolina
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