Contracts Manager, Complex Collaborations - Mississauga, Canada - Genentech

Description

The Position:

Contract Manager (Research & Development)
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.
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, development, and scientific services? Here is why we
think the Contracts Manager role is a fantastic job to consider
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.

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:
assistance, and in-depth know-how with complex scientific research contract drafting and

negotiating activities.

• Contract drafter and negotiator using functional, technical, and operational 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.

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 related business experience (or 3+ years with legal credentials) of relevant contract

management experience, ideally in a pharmaceutical contracting organization.


In addition, you have:

• The ability to communicate difficult or moderate complexity 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 early and late

stage 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.

• Business level fluency in English and the primary business language of the site(s),

supported, if applicable.

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