Qualcomm Contracts Specialist 

Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico City 

826319403

Job Area:

Legal Group, Legal Group > Contracts Administration/Management

Drafts, negotiates, administers, and manages contracts, including outlining clear terms that are aligned with business objectives and stakeholder needs. Actively involved throughout the contract lifecycle from planning requirements to fulfillment of obligations, addressing issues and risks as needed. Applies and maintains current understanding of Qualcomm policies, positions, and operations as well as legal guidelines related to contracts administration and/or management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Communication, Business, Political Science, or related field and 4+ years of Contract Administration experience or related work experience.

Associate's degree in Communication, Business, Political Science, or related field and 6+ years of Contract Administration experience or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Communication, Business, Political Science, or related field.

• 6+ years of Contract Administration experience

• Certification in legal, contracts, or related areas.

• 1+ year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).

• 1+ year in a leadership role with or without direct reports (only applies to positions with direct reports).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads others to draft, negotiate, and administer various types of complex contracts and amendments based on deep understanding of contracts administration procedures, structure, and guidelines.

• Manages complex contracts to ensure agreements are fully executed according to terms.

• Leads research, analysis, and interpretation of contracts to develop insights that support business goals based on specialized knowledge of contract and legal principles; helps junior team members do the same.

• Leverages an in-depth understanding of Qualcomm's policies and positions related to contracts to share information with internal and external parties.

• Analyzes and provides high-quality responses to complex requests for information in a timely manner, ensuring information is accurate and sufficient.

• Engages key internal and external stakeholders to understand needs, share updates, and address issues and risks.

• Develops new and innovative ways to accomplish work and improve existing methods to increase efficiencies across teams.

• Analyzes needs and requirements for complex contracts to determine time and resources required.

• Manages team project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables for small to mid-sized projects.

• Makes sound, ethical, and timely decisions across situations and helps others make decisions.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works under some supervision.

• Provides some supervision/guidance to other members; does not have direct reports.

• Decisions are moderate in nature. Errors are detected and corrected with relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships. May require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Most tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively; mistakes may result in some rework.

• Deductive and inductive problem solving is required; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or incomplete; intermediate data analysis/interpretation skills may be required.

• Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.

• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).

• Substantial creativity is needed to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.

• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

• Has experience working in Asia Pacific.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.