Sr. Contracts Manager- Complex Contracts

Roche; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 137,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche in Mississauga, Canada seeks a Procurement Contracts Expert for Materials, Manufacturing & Capex. You will draft and negotiate complex contracts, manage risk, and collaborate with Legal, Tax and Regulatory to ensure compliant contracting. A strong background in pharmaceutical procurement and cross-functional leadership is essential.

You will drive templates, playbooks and best practices while supporting stakeholders with pragmatic solutions to streamline contracting processes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of contracts management experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills with deep understanding of laws and policies.
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams and providing counsel.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate and manage complex contracts for direct materials, external manufacturing, lab equipment and logistics.
• Develop best practices, templates and playbooks; train stakeholders and business partners.
• Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Tax and Regulatory to ensure compliance and risk mitigation.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Procurement

Cross-functional leadership

Legal compliance

Education

Advanced legal degree

PhD

Masters

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity

This role sits within the Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution.

The Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Procurement Contracts Expert in Materials, Manufacturing & Capex Procurement, you will bring significant contract drafting and negotiation skills, and deep understanding of applicable laws, policies and regulations, to the procurement contract management and advisory capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in contract management and procurement overall, you will help to ensure contracting that best manages business, legal and compliance risks, while driving pragmatic solutions to help internal stakeholders avoid unnecessary or burdensome processes and delays.

You will drive collaboration with procurement and 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.

In addition, you will proactively drive a collaborative partnership with various stakeholders, including Legal, Privacy, Tax, Drug Safety, Regulatory and Insurance, to ensure contracts, tools, templates, playbooks, and positions are in line with legal requirements, Roche policies, and company needs as well as suggest enhancements and updates based upon legal and financial risk identified during business and stakeholder discussions and third party negotiations.

Using independent judgement, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a subject matter expert in the area of contracting for direct materials, external manufacturing, lab equipment and logistics procurement providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and in-depth know-how with complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contract drafting and negotiating activities
• You are a contract drafter and negotiator - using functional, technical and/or operational expertise to draft highly complex contractual provisions and demonstrating mastery with negotiation and influencing skills for both non-sourceable (either fully or in support of the business' self service) and, partnering with Procurement Delivery professionals, highly complex sourceable contracts.
• You develop contracts "Best Practice", and act as a visionary and driver for the development, improvement, and delivery of templates, playbooks, and training to procurement, the business, and other stakeholders.

Who you are

• You have 7+ years of related business experience in contracts management within the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
• Advanced legal degree, PhD, or Masters or equivalent experience in contract management
• You have experience leading cross functional squad/ project teams
• You possess strong technical skills including Legal and Compliance subject matter expertise with significant delegation of authority
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others

Preferred

• You ideally have experience and knowledge of Cell & Gene Therapy contracting
• Fluency or working knowledge of German is considered a plus.

• Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Mississauga is 136,936.00 and 179,728.50 of hiring range. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors as determined by the company.

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants for this role.

This posting is for an existing vacancy at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.