About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/.
About Our Team
Our Data Services court operations team supports public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services. The team works with internal stakeholders, service providers, and government entities to maintain reliable service delivery, address court access issues, and improve collection processes and documentation.
About the Role
As a Contract Specialist, you will identify and engage contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses that provide public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services. You will negotiate terms, support procurement strategies, manage contracts and ongoing provider relationships, and serve as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute strategies to establish and sustain a service-provider network for public record data and document acquisition, verification, and related services.
Identify and implement cost-containment and cost-reduction strategies.
Manage procurement processes for contract workers, independent contractors, and small businesses, including RFIs, RFPs, RFBs, bid vetting, negotiations, evaluation against vendor-selection criteria, bid approval, and contract award in accordance with established department guidelines.
Draft, administer, and manage contracts, ensuring service-level agreements are met.
Serve as the ongoing point of contact for communications between internal stakeholders and service providers.
Monitor service-provider performance against service-level agreements, including service volume, quality, and timeliness, and address non-compliance.
Manage contract renewal, renegotiation, recertification, cancellation, and breach-of-contract processes in accordance with established department guidelines.
Act as a subject matter expert on court systems, processes, and procedures, and build and maintain relationships with government entities.
Resolve court-access issues that inhibit public record collection.
Identify procedural and system process improvements.
Compile and maintain state-, county-, and court-specific collection information using established best-practice documentation templates and protocols.
Build strong cross-functional relationships and collaborate effectively across departments and business units.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Travel up to 5%.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work experience.
Three to five years of experience in a related role, such as vendor management, vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, or supply chain, is strongly preferred.
Understanding of negotiation theory and sourcing concepts, strategies, and practices.
Strong business and financial acumen, including experience structuring deals, drafting agreements, mitigating risk, and negotiating.
Strong coordination, attention to detail, problem-solving, and planning skills.
High degree of business ethics, accountability, professionalism, and confidentiality.
Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, judgment, analytical, customer service, interpersonal, group, and project and task management skills.
Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Adaptability, willingness to learn new enterprise applications quickly, and ability to support change.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Collaborative team approach and ability to serve as a positive role model and catalyst for change.
Working for You
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work experience
- Three to five years of experience in vendor management, vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, supply chain, or a related role
- Understanding of negotiation theory and sourcing concepts, strategies, and practices
- Business and financial acumen, including experience structuring deals, drafting agreements, mitigating risk, and negotiating
- Strong coordination, attention to detail, problem-solving, and planning skills
- Business ethics, accountability, professionalism, and confidentiality
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, judgment, analytical, customer service, interpersonal, group, and project and task management skills
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new enterprise applications quickly and support change
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Collaborative team approach and ability to serve as a positive role model and catalyst for change
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
