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Contracts Senior Manager Job Description
- Provide commercial support to the Business Development team and Sales Division on specific new bids/proposals, drafting contracts and leading negotiations with the company's major customers and suppliers
- Coordinates proposal issues requiring the expertise of other groups, proposes solutions to problems encountered in negotiations and assists in solving problems that may arise during contract performance
- Analyzes requests for proposals for general policy, business, financial, contractual and risk perspectives
- Seeks and recommends opportunities for process improvement for contract service delivery (risk, cycle time, compliance)
- Develop sales orders/change orders using the company’s pricing tool and/or pricing methodology as required
- Train and mentor team members on the contract process
- Continuously suggest and enhance the contract process
- Provide analytics on contractual data to drive business thought and decision making
- Ability to learn and understand internal systems to automate process and develop reports for analysis
- Train and contract structures to personnel within Medidata and for customers as appropriate
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or Management required
- Cross-Functional Collaborator able to establish strong relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders including Research scientists and the Legal team, among others
- Results driver who takes accountability and ownership
- Ability to travel to all Research sites approximately every quarter required
- Ten (10) years of experience in contract administration and government cost accounting environment
- Strong communication skills and good presentation skills
Contracts Senior Manager Job Description
- Manage price performance metrics including definition of price floors, execution of regional governance and management of international reference prices and strategy
- Contribute to advancement of state of the art pricing capabilities and training
- Support Affiliate teams through collaboration on local pricing & contracting efforts product-specific access support
- For pipeline products, collaborate with Global Pricing and Market Access (GP&MA) to set regional launch price and contracting guidance and support price and reimbursement negotiations through launch
- Partner effectively with Global Payer Leads, Regional Access teams, Global Health Economic and Marketing leads to understand strategic brand imperatives, access objectives and deliver aligned pricing strategies
- Anticipate changing payer landscapes across the region by building and maintaining robust knowledge of pricing & access trends in key markets
- Conduct payer research as needed to perform systematic pricing analyses and address region-specific issues for the products
- Interpret and apply regulations associated with relevant legal issues
- Provides support and/or leadership for EPC-related contract negotiations and contract administration for MOX Services
- Interface with Legal, Project Controls, Finance, EPC contractors, and other functional departments as needed on matters relating to changes within the prime contract to ensure plans and schedules are within corporate risk guidelines
- Lead team discussions and present confidently to internal/external customers
- Excellent organizational skills with ability to execute an individual workload while managing workloads of subordinate employees and simultaneously handling competing priorities
- Demonstrated success working in and facilitating teams
- Advisement and influence of leadership regarding strategies to mitigate or eliminate risk, advising on recent developments in Federal acquisition laws and regulations
- Proven ability to interact effectively across functional organizations, customers, internal departments, executive escalations
- Ability to lead and conduct negotiations with minimal supervision to minimize Puppet’s financial and legal risk
Contracts Senior Manager Job Description
- Identifies and mitigates risks connected with non-standard conditions and supplier changes in proposed contractual documents
- Advise and guide senior leaders, vendor managers and relationship managers with respect to reviewing and negotiating new and existing contracts, renewing, extending or terminating them, and ensuring that contract policies are followed
- Identify profitable commercial opportunities to grow revenue
- Manage team of contracts personnel (currently four)
- Provide overall management, guidance and coordination of contract and grant activities, including oversight management and control of grant staff contract negotiation, reporting and monitoring of implementing agencies
- Take lead in the interpretation of funding regulation to ensure that all FHI 360 Mozambique policies and procedures and Federal Government and other Funder procurement and contracting requirements are met for sub-agreement and subcontracting activities
- Assess C&G and procurement priorities, needs and capabilities and develop an annual work plan
- Lead ongoing monitoring, support and liaison with regional office to ensure the organization’s systems and staff can respond to new donors’ regulations
- Take lead in pursuing strategies to improve award management in FHI 360 Mozambique through knowledge management and replicating best practices and tools
- Contribute to the continuous efforts to improve the organization management information system from a C&G and procurement perspective, to ensure that it remains relevant and responsive to internal and external needs
- A working knowledge of the contractual procedures of various international funding organisations including the European Commission and the Department for International Development
- Experience developing contract documents, to include Request for Proposals, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRL), Contract Line Item Numbers (CLIN), DD-254’s, Acquisition Plans, Source Selection Plans, Justifications & Approvals, Procurement Requests, Modification Requests, and Technical Direction Letters/Technical Instructions
- Ability to supervise and coordinate efforts of personnel from different areas both internally and externally
- Excellent written and oral communication, analytical, inter-personal and leadership skills
- More than 3 years of experience with acquisition policies, , USG FAR/DFARS regulations
- Strong knowledge of FAR, DFARS, ITAR
Contracts Senior Manager Job Description
- Communicates and tracks deliverables needed, QC process, and QC timelines, working closely with Regulatory Strategic Writing team members
- Supports the Head of Regulatory Strategic Writing, creating or maintaining Regulatory Strategic Writing standards/processes related to the submissions process
- Identifies and implements new procedures needed as the Regulatory Strategic Writing organization evolves with an overall emphasis on QC that supports the regulatory strategic writing process and the production of submission-ready documents
- Participates and/or leads process improvement activities and related initiatives
- Mentors and provides guidance/training to Regulatory Strategic Writing Operations staff or others as applicable
- Ensures Regulatory Strategic Writing group understands/complies with appropriate conventions, proper grammar usage, and correct format requirements per International Conference on Harmonisation and other governing bodies, and follows applicable Corporate and Divisional policies and procedures, divisional guidelines, templates, and Standard Operating Procedures
- Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues and questions arising during the QC process, including resolution or escalation, as appropriate
- Provides domain knowledge in contract strategies and execution
- Interacts with senior management and customers on major program reviews, significant negotiations and other special projects
- Ensures compliance with company policies, laws and regulations
- MS Word and MS Power Point skills
- Extensive experience in functionally related global or international pharmaceutical industry roles including pharmaceutical pricing & market access responsibility
- In-depth understanding and experience with the development and execution of pricing strategies that optimize market access, sales and product profitability
- Strong understanding of strategic pricing and contracting, including innovative approaches such as risk-sharing/managed entry agreements
- Experience working in the Middle East is preferred
- 10+ years experience of demonstrated contract experience with a major engineering firm, contractor or law firm in the areas of engineering and construction contracts
Contracts Senior Manager Job Description
- Provides summary of proposals from multiple suppliers to customers in a clear, concise and accurate manner providing all supporting information
- Drafts contractual agreements, amendments and addendums with input from legal counsel when applicable, to assure that Partners’ organizational assets are protected and risks mitigated
- Develops, negotiates, and executes major multi-year, multi-million dollar agreements for the system in accordance with accepted strategies and plans
- Works closely with Principal Investigators, Research Administration, and peers, to develop and operationalize contracts with major manufacturers and distributors to reduce costs, eliminate inventory redundancy, improve upon supply chain processes, and manage resources and item conversions within the system
- Serves as a liaison and ambassador within each institution and across Partners HealthCare on behalf of Supply Chain Management
- Utilizes GPO contracting relationships to enhance value to participating members
- Consults with leaders and management throughout the Partners system to provide expert advice regarding, contracting and marketplace conditions
- Supports and implements new programs occurring hospital-wide such as productivity improvement, downsizing, refurbishment projects, quality initiatives, and cost major management initiatives
- Proactively monitors industry trends and opportunities and reassess agreements, as needed, to ensure Partners maintains its leadership position in the marketplace
- Monitor all agreements to guarantee Supplier obligations are met, rebates and incentives are earned, and that contract and pricing expiration dates are implemented and met
- Experience in a construction office is preferred
- Excellent knowledge of FIDIC Forms of Contract
- Previous experience with software and hardware contracts from the supplier and/or customer perspective
- Ability to remain calm under pressure, handle a rapidly-changing environment, shift from one task to another and prioritize under a tight schedule
- Significant progressively responsible role and experience in network contracting for health service contracting for integrated system or managed care organization with strong negotiation skills
- Excellent understanding of health care industry, provider community, competitive market strategies and health&hospital system operations