Contracts Manager - Mississauga, Canada - Genentech, Inc

    Genentech, Inc
    Genentech, Inc Mississauga, Canada

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    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.

    If you are excited about driving this change and catalyzing the future in the , the Contract Manager (D&T Contracts) role is for you.

    This position is located on-site in Mississauga, Canada.

    The Opportunity:

    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.

    As a Contracts Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you can use your contract drafting and negotiation skills and a 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 continuously develop, validate, enhance, and deploy services, tools, templates, playbooks, processes, and service levels.

    Key Responsibilities:

  • 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 specialist providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and know-how with complex IT and/or technical contract drafting and negotiating activities.
  • Contract drafter and negotiator - using functional, technical, and/or operational expertise, and working with Procurement Delivery professionals, drafting and negotiating complex IT 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.
  • Who you are:

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

  • Proven experience managing and negotiating IT-specific contracts (at all levels of complexity).
  • Understanding and ability to work with IT security, tax, insurance, import/export 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 (including detailed knowledge of privacy matters).
  • 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.
  • Relocation Benefits are not available for this position.

    Genentech is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the increasingly diverse world around us. Genentech prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status and veteran status.