Ingram Content Group (ICG) is hiring for a Contract Management Specialist to contribute to our Library Services (ILS) team in LaVergne, TN just outside Nashville. We offer hybrid work schedules, however, this person must live in the Greater Nashville area.
In this role, you will consistently produce winning written proposals, positioning ILS as the premier materials and value-added services supplier to libraries. You’ll also manage all aspects of the Request for Proposal (RFPs), including initial receipt/request, submission, and archival process. The ideal candidate will have experience writing/reviewing contracts, preparing/managing RFPs and working with proformas.
Ingram Content Group (“Ingram”) connects people with content in all forms. Providing comprehensive services for publishers, retailers, libraries, and educators, Ingram makes these services seamless and accessible through technology, innovation, and creativity. With an expansive global network of offices and facilities, Ingram’s services include digital and physical book distribution, print-on-demand, and digital learning.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in Business or related field or year-for-year experience
- 2 years’ proposal or contract writing experience or 2 years’ Ingram Library Services experience
- 2 years’ business experience, including financial analysis and pricing
Preferred Skills:
- Experience using Salesforce
- Experience using MS Excel
- Experience managing RFP process
- Experience meeting tight deadlines
- Extremely detail-oriented
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively researches, compiles, and analyzes all financial and competitive information critical to preparing a written proposal response for bids worth up to $7 million.
- Develops, analyzes and proposes competitive and profitable pricing.
- Creates financial models that reflect proposed discounts and value-added services pricing to ensure attainment of company profit objectives.
- Creates and writes winning proposals through the use of boilerplate and customized responses to reflect the customer’s RFP requirements.
- Develops and maintains a project timeline for each response, ensuring milestone deliverables are met and overall project deadline is strictly adhered to.
- Completes necessary customer follow-up, administration of company discounts and pricing system, reporting, and database maintenance after the proposal award.
- Serves as contract administration representative providing knowledge to Account Managers and clients.
Hiring Salary Range: $58,298 - $72,657. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. It will be determined by factors including but not limited to: the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geographic location, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Additional InformationPerks/Benefits:
- A highly competitive compensation package with generous benefits beginning first day of employment for Medical/Prescription Drug plans, HSA, Vision, Dental and Health Care FSA.
- 15 vacation days & 12 sick days accrued annually and 3 personal days
- 401K match, Life and AD&D, Employee Assistant programs, Group Legal, & more
- Wellness program with access to onsite gym and basketball court for associates
- Encouraged continued education with our tuition reimbursement program
- Financial and in-kind opportunities to engage with non-profits in your community
- Company match program for United Way donations
- Volunteer opportunities and in-kind drives for non-profits throughout the year
- Casual Dress Code
Ingram Content Group is a part of Ingram Industries Inc. and includes Ingram Book Group LLC, Ingram Publisher Services LLC, Lightning Source LLC, Ingram Library Services LLC, Tennessee Book Company LLC, Ingram Content Group UK Ltd. and Ingram Content Group Australia Pty Ltd.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, work related mental or physical disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information.
- EOE - Race/Gender/Veterans/Disabled
- We participate in EVerify.
- EEO Poster in English
- EEO Poster in Spanish
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field, or equivalent year-for-year experience
- Two years of proposal writing or contract writing experience, or two years of Ingram Library Services experience
- Two years of business experience, including financial analysis and pricing
- Residence in the Greater Nashville area
- Experience using Salesforce
- Experience using Microsoft Excel
- Experience managing the RFP process
- Experience meeting tight deadlines
- Extremely detail-oriented
What We Do
The world is reading. Ingram helps connect our world with the books they want—print and digital—when they need them, in the simplest ways. To better serve an increasingly connected global community of readers we are transforming the book industry for the better: through smart leadership, cutting-edge technology, and revolutionary innovations in the manufacture and distribution of books. Providing comprehensive services for publishers, retailers, libraries and educators, Ingram makes these services seamless and accessible through technology, innovation and creativity. With an expansive global network of offices and facilities, Ingram’s services include digital and physical book distribution, print on demand, and digital learning. Ingram Content Group is a part of Ingram Industries Inc. and includes Ingram Book Group LLC, Ingram Publisher Services LLC, Lightning Source LLC, VitalSource Technologies LLC, Ingram Library Services LLC, and Tennessee Book Company LLC.
