Contract Coordinator

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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

This position, Contract Coordinator, works out of our Lake Forest, IL location daily on site in the Abbott CMI Team. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life.

This position will provide administrative, analytical, and procedural support to internal customers on behalf of the Contracts & Pricing Department. This role acts as a liaison between contract administrators, account executives, regional directors, finance, fulfillment group and distributors in processing and administration of sales contracts.

• Review and process sales contracts and amendments
• Responsible for checking and analyzing contracts are legible, clean, complete and are aligned with approvals
• Responsible for routing contracts for signature based on pre-determined signature authority tiers
• Responsible for reviewing, summarizing and logging contract information into company’s CRM system
• Save, organize and maintain accurate files, notes and data in electronic files and trackers
• Perform CRM and log maintenance on an ongoing basis to insure accurate reporting
• Utilize data from the company’s CRM system to generate reports, analyze data, and track contracting statuses
• Support internal auditing and monitoring efforts
• Analyze contract and pricing discrepancies and correct, resolve and document findings
• Research equipment shipments, price loads, contract renewals and perform appropriate tasks related to such research
• Respond to requests for end-user pricing eligibility and contract eligibility
• Interface and collaborate with contract administrators, pricing analysts, pricing coordinators, account executives, regional directors, fulfillment group and distributors to establish working relationships, assure proper end-user pricing and contract effective dates are loaded
• Participate in and prepare for contracts & pricing policy meetings
• Develop and continuously update departmental SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Demonstrate understanding of the business structure, processes and policies
• Perform closing activities as needed
• Meet deadlines and update clients with status
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices.
• Perform other duties & projects as assigned.
• Understands and is aware of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job.

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience in commercial sales contracting and pricing.

• Two or more…