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The University of Texas at San Antonio · 3 days ago

Director, Business Contracts

San Antonio, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$110K/yr - $114K/yr

7+ years exp

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is a nationally recognized, top-tier public research university that unites the power of higher education, biomedical discovery and healthcare. The Director of Business Contracts functions as the Primary Business Contracts Officer for UTSA, responsible for overseeing the University’s business contracting program and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations.

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Responsibilities

Oversees and manages the University’s overall business contracting process; provides effective leadership, assistance, and guidance in all areas of the University’s business contracting process

Reviews business agreements and associated documents for the University; analyzes, revises, and/or drafts terms and conditions of for an unlimited range of agreements to ensure protection of the University, compliance with applicable state laws, UT System policies, and University regulations

Leads and facilitates business contract negotiations on complex, strategic contracts to effectively and clearly resolve contracting projects, and to ensure appropriate protection of the University; negotiate directly with business entities, including their legal representatives, in completion of a wide range of contracting processes

Understands and stays up to date on all applicable regulatory requirements and applicable rules, policies and guidance, and assure, or recommend a course of action to assure, that the university is in compliance

Coordinates with executive offices, purchasing staff, UT System Offices, and other agencies to ensure compliance with institutional, system, state and federal contracting policies, regulations, requirements and legislation

Reviews and analyzes an unlimited range of contracting scopes of work, and provides direction and leadership to contracting staff, the Purchasing Office, and applicable University departments in developing complex scopes of work; research, redraft, and develop scope documents as necessary to establish clarity and to secure the best interests of the University

Assists the Purchasing Office in drafting strategic procurements, including assistance with developing terms, conditions, scope, and specifications necessary for completion of the resulting agreements; develops resulting agreements; coordinate with and provides direction to Purchasing Office staff on business contract policies and procedures

Manages UTSA’s business contract policies, procedures, and practices, and implements new policies and procedures to ensure an effective and compliant contracting program; effectively analyzes risk and efficiency factors in determining contractual requirements

Identifies process improvement opportunities and leads and facilitates continuous improvement initiatives, including recommending and leading opportunities to further the University’s contracting strategies

Oversees all personnel operations within the Business Contracts Office to ensure effective and compliant operations, including oversight of organizational structures, workloads, training, and development

Supervises budget operations, prepares budget recommendations, and monitors expenditures of the Business Contracts Unit

Oversees the University’s business contract training program

Performs certain legal research and analysis as required to facilitate contract execution

Manages business contracting data and metrics and provide business contracting data reports to applicable University executives, faculty/staff, and other applicable agencies

Represents at the Business Contracts Office on committees and councils related to contracting work

Completes individual routine contracting transactions or take other actions necessary to complete departmental work

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Contract ManagementRegulatory ComplianceContract LawLegal DraftingData ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementLegal InterpretationContract StandardizationLegal StructuringLegal Risk Management