Contract Administrator

Position Purpose:The main focus of the Contract Administrator II role will be contract review, managing exception and approval process, assigning risk and mantaining risk guidelines. The Contract Administrator II will work heavily with boilerplate text and provide guidance to negotiators.

Responsibilities:

• Draft and revise contracting language to support state mandated language, product requirements, language deviations received from negotiators or providers, and other contract language requests
• Aid management in new business needs including research of state regulations and statutes, review of state contracts and Requests for Proposal (RFPs),and development of appropriate language to support new products/markets
• Review of contract language to evaluate modifications against specified standards
• Collaborate with the contracting staff at subsidiaries, and operational stakeholders at corporate to revise contract language to support business needs or provider concerns
• Serve as point of contact for all language review issues for contracts submitted through the organization’s contract management systems contract management systems (i.e. Emptoris and Team Track).
• Develop and manage reporting on process successes and failures in the contract management systems

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, related field or equivalent experience.
• Juris Doctorate, MBA, or MHA is preferred.
• 4+ years experience analyzing, revising and approving healthcare provider contract language modification or 4+ years experience negotiating healthcare provider contracts.
• Demonstrated leadership experience within a function, department or on project(s) and experience in the health insurance industry.
• Managed care, Medicaid, Medicare or dual eligible health programs experience highly preferred.
• Experience developing contract templates preferred.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.