The Opportunity:
The Contract Analyst – State Government Contracts is responsible for leading, administering, coordinating, and supporting VWR’s State Government contract programs, with ownership of contract administrative efforts and customer relationships for major state and cooperative contract vehicles, including NASPO. This role ensures contractual requirements are monitored, reported, and executed in alignment with customer obligations, internal policies, and compliance expectations. The Contract Analyst serves as the primary point of contact for state government contracting entities and partners closely with Sales, Bids/Quotes, Pricing, Legal, Government Contracts leadership, and external customers to support contract performance, issue resolution, reporting accuracy, and continuous process improvement.
The ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable leading the State Government portfolio and managing time-sensitive contract administration activities in a fast-paced environment. This individual must be able to operate independently within defined business objectives while maintaining strong communication with internal stakeholders and state government customers.
How you will thrive and create an impact
Lead contract administrative efforts for the State Government portfolio, including NASPO, ensuring contract requirements are executed accurately, timely, and in compliance with customer obligations.
Serve as the primary VWR relationship owner and point of contact for NASPO and other state contracting entities, including lead state contract administrators and participating states.
Manage the lifecycle of state and cooperative contracts, including participating addenda, renewals, extensions, amendments, and contract transitions.
Own periodic sales reporting and administrative fee calculation and remittance for state and cooperative contracts, ensuring accuracy and on-time delivery.
Take ownership of contract compliance issues by performing and communicating root-cause analysis to management and successfully implementing corrective action plans in collaboration with internal and external partners and customers.
Perform analysis and complete reporting functions for assigned state government customers, including customer-specific reporting, fee requirements, and contract performance tracking.
Perform contract modifications and administrative actions on assigned state government contracts, including completion and maintenance of customer pricing files.
Proactively recommend tools, policies, and processes that enhance state government customer performance, contract compliance, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiency; assist in developing, auditing, and implementing such functionality.
Provide supporting analytics to Sales leadership and the Government Contracts Manager to improve state government customer growth, profitability, and performance across NASPO and other state and cooperative contracts.
Set priorities and direction for the State Government contract program in partnership with the Government Contracts Manager, including growth opportunities, risk mitigation, and process standardization.
Partner with Bids/Quotes and Legal to coordinate state and cooperative contract solicitation responses, pricing submissions, and contract negotiations.
Partner with Sales and Bids/Quotes teams to implement new agreements and ensure all aspects of contractual requirements are delivered to the customer.
Train and assist internal partners to ensure customer reporting, administrative fee requirements, and other contract obligations are maintained and executed in compliance with VWR’s contracts.
Proactively manage and measure assigned accounts against departmental metrics to drive business support, process improvement, and accountability.
Maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders and external state government customers regarding contract requirements, reporting obligations, pricing files,…