Senior Manager, Contracts and Budgets
Clinilabs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,000 - $145,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Oversee and manage all aspects of contract development, administration, and negotiation within the organization.
- Ensure that contracts and supporting budgets/documents are drafted, reviewed, and executed in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and industry standards.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners to mitigate risks and optimize contract outcomes.
- Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial and vendor contracts.
- Advise senior leadership and project teams on contractual rights, obligations, and risks.
- Ensure compliance with relevant laws and/or regulatory compliance, company SOPs/organizational policies throughout the contract lifecycle.
- Develop and implement standard contract templates, procedures, and best practices to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Assist with the implementation of the CLM platform within the organization, including training of teams on use and development of the contract development process and SOPs to align with the new CLM platform.
- Report and manage contract renewals, amendments, and terminations through the CLM platform, ensuring timely and accurate documentation.
- Assist with the resolution of contractual disputes and issues through effective negotiation and collaboration with stakeholders.
- Maintain the CLM platform to ensure the executed agreement repository is maintained and accurate record-keeping and reporting.
- Provide training and guidance to key stakeholders and staff on contract management processes and risk mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- At least a bachelor’s degree, preferably in science, finance, business, or other related field.
- Five or more years’ experience in contract development and administration roles within a contract research organization (CRO) or clinical research unit (CRU).
- Experience in the development of budgets to support contracts where required.
- Experience with developing and managing, in collaboration with legal, finance, and executive teams, complex contracts to include master services agreements, vendor agreements, TOROs, data privacy agreements, and others.
- Working knowledge of contract law, commercial terms, and risk management principles.
- Strong experience working within contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems preferred.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, external clients, and vendors.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
contract developmentcontract administrationcontract negotiationbudget developmentcontract lawcommercial termsrisk managementcontract lifecycle management (CLM)master services agreementsvendor agreements
Soft skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationnegotiationproblem-solvingtrainingguidancestakeholder managementrisk mitigationorganizational skills