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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.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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

About Us
At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:
Life ... with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career ... with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution
Connection ... with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
It's all here for you... let's Create Your Possible
At Sherwin-Williams, part of our mission is to help our employees and their families live healthier, save smarter and feel better. This starts with a wide range of world-class benefits designed for you. From retirement to health care, from total well-being to your daily commute-it matters to us. A general description of benefits offered can be found at http://www.myswbenefits.com/. Click on "Candidates" to view benefit offerings that you may be eligible for if you are hired as a Sherwin-Williams employee.
Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case and will impact where actual compensation may fall within the stated wage range. The wage range listed for this role takes into account the wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The wage range, other compensation, and benefits information listed is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
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