Job Description

The Position

Roche has defined an exciting 10-year ambition plan, requiring us to adapt and transform to our evolving ecosystem and the 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 \xe2\x80\x9caccelerate Roche\xe2\x80\x99s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships.\xe2\x80\x9d 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 Investigator Initiated Studies team, you will work in a dynamic 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:

Successful performance and contribution to 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 domain knowledge or subject matter expert providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and in-depth know-how with research contract drafting and negotiating activities.

• Contract drafting and negotiation using functional, technical, and operational expertise to draft contractual provisions and demonstrate mastery with negotiation and influencing skills.

You bring the following skills, mindsets, and behaviors:

A university degree, with a business or legal degree preferable.

3+ years related business experience (or 1+ 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- clinical trial agreements, investigator initiated agreements, confidentiality agreements and the like.

• 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 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.

IMPORTANT:

When you apply as an internal Roche candidate, you can use your Workday profile or upload a resume/CV in English.

When you apply as an external candidate from outside of Roche, please upload a resume/CV in English and a cover letter (if relevant) in one step.

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\xe2\x80\x99ve become one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

As of January 4, 2022, Roche requires all new employees who work in Canada to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on the date they take office. This requirement is a condition of employment at Roche that applies regardless of whether the position is on a Roche campus or remotely. If you have a valid reason for not being fully immunized, which is limited to certain specific medical reasons or other valid reasons protected by applicable human rights laws, you may request an exemption and / or adaptation measures regarding this vaccination requirement. Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we\xe2\x80\x99ve become one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

As of January 4, 2022, Roche requires all new employees who work in Canada to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on the date they take office. This requirement is a condition of employment at Roche that applies regardless of whether the position is on a Roche campus or remotely. If you have a valid reason for not being fully immunized, which is limited to certain specific medical reasons or other valid reasons protected by applicable human rights laws, you may request an exemption and / or adaptation measures regarding this vaccination requirement.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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