Contract Governance Analyst

The Contract Governance Analyst is responsible for governance and compliance of the Contract Lifecycle Management System, Sirion.  This role is tasked with facilitating change management, monitoring the system to ensure documents are processed within the guidelines of the CLM Policy and providing the business units with ongoing support.  Analysts work to ensure contractual obligations that optimize key benefits of a contract are managed closely with the contract owners.   Scheduled and ad-hoc reporting and various project support activities are additional tasks that this role will handle regularly. 

Business Partnering: 

• Ability to establish credible relationships across Sherwin-Williams 
• Actively participate on any future design building sessions to understand user groups’ contract process and establish relationships with stakeholders, preparing for post go-live support 
• Leverages relationships with contract owners across both buy and sell side to facilitate contract operations from contract request through post signature management 
• Supports system approval and signature process by tracking requests through contract execution with all Stakeholders involved 
• Supports training for end users and category managers on system Obligations and Reporting. Promotes user adoption by improving contract system usability 

Contract and Strategy Execution: 

• Ensure contract workflows are followed to fully signed agreements and properly converted to final draft in contract repository 
• Reviews contract repository and contract data to ensure Sherwin-Williams achieves full value from contracts, communicating directly with contract owners/business groups 
• Ensures fulfillment of Contract Management process compliance expectations 
• Participates in user training and provide ongoing support of contract obligations 
• Conduct surveillance to detect and aid in correcting instances of contracting activities that occur outside of system 
• Track expired contracts, helping to ensure on-time renewals are processed and ensure Retention Policy is  supported – working directly with contract owners 
• Review data and system insights and created various reports for user groups and steering Op-Co throughout each month 

Continuous Improvement: 

• Identify bottlenecks and alert users of process flow aging concerns in an effort to complete contract process more efficiently 
• Participate in information gathering meetings to understand user group contract requirements and aid in establishing and managing contract obligations 
• Review system regularly and perform various data cleanse activities 
• Monitor metrics related to risks, time and value

 Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

This role is not remote/ hybrid and will report to Sherwin-Williams Global Headquarters located at 1 Sherwin Way, Cleveland, OH 44113.

Position Requirements: 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree required 
• 3+ years of finance, procurement, or contract management experience. 
• Proven ability to analyze and present findings in a clear and cohesive manner 
• Ability to identify and research legal implications of contract obligations 
• Capable of navigating through ambiguous situations and provide business guidance on 3rd party agreements 
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across the enterprise and support reporting on contract compliance and obligations to our 3rd parties 
• Ability to develop processes and/or to identify continuous improvements to help better coordinate activities and drive business value across buy and sell side organizations (e.g., capture price increases, rebates, discounts, etc) 
• Exceptional relationship builder and stakeholder manager, ability to grow personal networks 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite products, including but not limited to, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Procurement, or Supply Chain 
• Previous experience working with Contracts – procurement or sales related - with a basic understanding of contractual terms and conditions. 
• Positive, proactive, can-do attitude 
• Autonomy, entrepreneurial self-starter who can work with minimal supervision 
• Confident and able to push back when appropriate, escalate when needed 
• Inspires trust and confidence 
• Results-oriented and responsible