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Senior Manager, Contracts, EMEA - Scotland
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Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri). Environmental Conditions: Office.
How will you make an impact?
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Responsibilities
* Draft and negotiate both routine and non-routine contractual agreements. The complexity of agreement may vary from moderate to complex. Must be experienced in redlining legal agreements.
* Lead or participate in the contract process and negotiate contentious issues at multiple levels internally and with the client, keeping risk exposure in mind.
* Be fully accountable for the outcome of negotiations, ensuring conformity to business needs, appropriate risk allocation and compliance with internal policies and procedures.
* Be a negotiator willing to stand up to unprincipled techniques and pressures.
* Interface collaboratively with internal partners and customers to influence and provide direction to guide the contracting process.
* Continually strive to make the contracting process more efficient, effective, and customer centric.
* Follow and help improve tools to ensure consistency in processes and maximum situational awareness for all internal partners throughout the contract process to improve turnaround time and grow the client base.
* Maintain and use the contract management system database for current and terminated contracts.
* Serve as the main liaison between the client and manufacturing sites and business units in North America and Europe during the contract negotiation phase of a project.
* Ability to work in a matrixed environment with internal partners and communicate the value of the contracting role to sales, finance, marketing, legal, quality, and site management/operations.
* Mentor and develop team members.
* Participate in internal meetings to provide information and updates on business and contracting issues.
* Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree required (preferred in Business or Life Sciences); MBA and/or JD or 6+ years of contract negotiation experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) highly preferred.
* Experience with customer-facing contract negotiations including facilitation, problem solving, decision making and consensus building; ability to withstand pressure from customers and internal partners while following a principled course of action. Experience in handling complex contractual language.
* Experience leading and motivating a team; proactive and enthusiastic approach in developing team members and managing workload.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail and analytical abilities, ability to multi-task in a demanding environment, and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Legal, General Business, and Strategy/Planning
Industries
* Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Biotechnology Research
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