Contracts Manager Complex Collaborations

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The Position

Always innovating, we bring together dedicated people and diverse perspectives from across our global network, empowering each other to keep breaking new ground.

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 role is for you.

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.

The Opportunity

As a Contracts Manager on the Complex Collaborations team, 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 contract management and advisory activities. Using your specialized knowledge in the areas of pharma research and development contracting, you will ensure effective and efficient contracting 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 drive collaboration with 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 within the contracting capability team, you will lead or be an active part of squads and networks, facilitating and leading complex discussions and initiatives, championing agile principles, interfacing with internal and external business partners and decision-makers.

Who you are

• You hold a university degree, with a legal degree preferable. You also have a minimum of 5-7 years related business experience of relevant contract management experience, ideally in a pharmaceutical contracting organization.

• Contracting domain knowledge or subject matter expert providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and in-depth know-how with complex scientific research contract drafting and negotiating activities.

• Contract drafter and negotiator using expertise to draft complex contractual provisions and demonstrate mastery with negotiation and influencing skills.

• Contracts "Best Practice" developer, visionary, and driver for developing, improving, and delivering templates, playbooks, and training to the business, and other stakeholders.

• The ability to communicate difficult concepts/ideas and effectively negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view, approach, or endorse/use proposal/solution.

• Experience in negotiating and/or managing a variety of agreements for clinical development, ideally in the following types of contracts- research collaboration agreements, data collaboration agreements, consortium agreements, investigator initiated agreements, mutual CDAs and the like.

• Demonstrated familiarity of intellectual property and licensing issues as they pertain to collaborative research agreements with academic partners.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche's truly innovative culture.