Contracts Manager

6 months ago

Mississauga, Canada Roche Full time

The Position

Contracts Manager

Roche has defined an exciting 10-year ambition plan, requiring us to adapt and transform to our evolving ecosystem and challenges ahead of us.

We have redesigned our Global Procurement (GP) organization to ensure we can succeed in this new environment and deliver on our mission for patients by building new capabilities and creating a more agile organization.

Our goal is to improve our ability to deliver on our vision to “accelerate Roche’s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships.”

If you are excited about driving this change and catalyzing the future in the area of Contracts, Negotiations & Compliance, the Contract Manager (Research and Development Vendor Contracts) role is for you.

What is the Contracts, Negotiations & Compliance capability?

The Contracts, Negotiations & Compliance (CNC) team focuses on delivering contracting support, solutions, and efficiencies to internal business customers across Roche.

The team uses specialized and in-depth knowledge of contracting-related topics and Roche overall to offer and deliver solutions that manage business, legal, and compliance risks.

Are you wondering what is in it for you?

Are you interested in further developing and leveraging your drafting and negotiation skills in the complex and diverse areas of Research and Development? Here is why we think the Contract Manager role is a fantastic job to consider

As a Contracts Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you can use your contract drafting and negotiation skills and general understanding of applicable laws, policies, and regulations, to deliver procurement contract management and advisory activities.

Using your specialized knowledge and expertise in contracting and procurement, you will ensure effective and efficient service delivery that manages business, legal, and compliance risks to support internal stakeholders. Over time, you will have opportunities to learn new contracting areas and continue to expand your expertise.

You will partner with procurement and business stakeholders, supporting their contracting needs by creating and providing tools, templates, playbooks, advice and counsel, and assistance with complex drafting and negotiating, enabling efficient and compliant contracting.

Working closely with other team members, such as the contracting enablement capability teams, you will gather feedback and input to meet reporting requirements, and to continuously develop, validate, enhance and deploy services, tools, templates, playbooks, processes, and service levels.

Your key responsibilities include:

Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

Using independent judgment, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, such as:

Contracting knowledge and subject matter expert providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and know-how with complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contract drafting and negotiating activities.

Contract drafter and negotiator - using functional, technical, and/or operational expertise to interpret, draft and negotiate complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contracts in two primary areas: sourceable contracts in direct support to the business (either fully or in support of the business' self service); and, working with Procurement Delivery professionals, complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contracts that require contracting functional, technical and/or operational expertise beyond provided templates and playbooks.

Contracts "Best Practices" developer and advocate contributing to the development, improvement, and delivery of templates, playbooks, and training to procurement, the business, and other stakeholders.

You will work within the broader team and GP networks and squads to determine the other various roles needed to deliver project and foundational work. 

You bring the following skills, mindsets, and behaviors:

Skills 

You hold a university degree, with a business or legal degree preferable. You also have 7+ years or fewer with or legal credentials 3+ years of relevant procurement or contract management experience, ideally in a pharmaceutical contracting organization. In addition, you have:

Proven experience with managing and negotiating  Research and Development specific contracts  (all levels of complexities).

Understanding and ability to work with tax, insurance, import/export, safety & health and compliance matters. 

The ability to explain difficult or higher complexity capability information to others or collect/translate moderate complexity stakeholder requirements in situations requiring alignment and consensus.

Legal and Compliance subject matter expertise with extensive delegation of authority.

Business level fluency in English.

Mindset and Behaviors

You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch. 

You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, focusing on continuous learning and improvement.

You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

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