Indirect Contracting Team Leader (f/m/d) Pharmaceutical Diagnostics

MS0184 GE Healthcare Buchler GmbH & Co. KG; Deutschland; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

GE HealthCare seeks an Indirect Contracting Team Leader to oversee end-to-end management of distributor, wholesaler, and sales representative contracts across PDx International. You will lead a team ensuring timely renewals, compliance, and robust contract governance across multiple functions.

The role emphasizes standard work, lean processes, performance metrics, and risk remediation within a global, cross-functional environment. Hybrid/remote/onsite setups across Europe are supported.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in contract drafting and management within healthcare or regulated industries.
• Strong leadership and people-management skills across cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to drive governance, risk management and process improvements.

Responsabilités

• Lead end-to-end operational management of indirect contracting across distributor, wholesaler and sales representative contracts.
• Maintain contract coverage, expiry dates, renewal timelines and audit-ready repositories.
• Identify and remediate contracts lacking valid coverage and manage risk-based escalations.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Compliance, Legal, Finance and other stakeholders on contracting controls and approvals.
• Enforce templates, due diligence, and compliance reviews for third-party contracts; escalate material risks.

Connaissances

Contract drafting

Contract management

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Outils

Salesforce.com

Description du poste

Job Description Summary As the Indirect Contracting Team Leader (f/m/d), you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end management of indirect customer contracts across PDx International. You will lead a team of contract specialists and ensure that distributor, wholesaler and sales representative contracts are in place, effectively managed, renewed on time, and fully compliant with applicable laws, regulations, and internal GE HealthCare policies. This role is critical in strengthening and sustaining the indirect contracting control environment across PDx International. It requires strong contract management expertise, sound judgment, people leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive transformation in a complex, cross-functional environment. The role will focus on standard work, lean processes, measurable performance management, governance, and sustainable remediation of contract lifecycle risks. The role is responsible for operational contract lifecycle management and governance. Legal interpretation, advice, risk assessments, and approval of substantive contractual deviations remain the responsibility of the Legal function. The same applies to PDx Compliance. The role is open for hybrid, remote, or onsite set-up in any European country.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end operational management of the contract life cycle for distributor, wholesaler and sales representative contracts. This will include drafting, review, execution, renewal, amendment, extension, and termination in close coordination with particularly Commercial, Regulatory, Quality, Pharmacovigilance, Legal and Compliance teams.
• Ensure contract coverage, expiry dates, status, renewal timelines, key obligations, comprehensive and accurate contract repository, and remediation actions are accurately tracked, maintained, and audit-ready.
• Identify indirect third parties operating without valid contract coverage and drive risk-based remediation, including prioritization of expired or at-risk contracts.
• Partner with Commercial, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders to manage customers without valid contract coverage according to agreed controls, escalation pathways, ordering restrictions, and documentation requirements.
• Ensure compliant execution and lifecycle management of third-party commercial contracts by enforcing approved templates, completing required due diligence and compliance reviews, and coordinating necessary legal, regulatory, trade compliance, privacy, competition law, and anti-corruption assessments. Ensure timely escalation of material risks, deviations, and approval requirements in accordance with company policies and applicable regulations.
• Decision-making authority includes operational prioritization of contract renewals and team workload, workflow management, governance reporting, escalation of identified risks, and driving process improvements in alignment with relevant support functions. Approval of contractual deviations, policy exceptions, and legal or compliance positions remains with the designated approving functions.

Team Leadership and Operational Execution

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of contract specialists, ensuring clear priorities, high-quality execution, and consistent ways of working.
• Set expectations for process adherence, documentation quality, stakeholder responsiveness, compliance with internal standards, and Daily Management.
• Act as an escalation point for complex contracting topics, lapsed coverage, renewal prioritization, delays, deviations, and cross-functional alignment needs.
• Train and build team capability and foster a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Compliance, Risk Management and Governance

• Ensure indirect customer contracts comply with applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, SOPs, approval requirements, and GE HealthCare compliance standards.
• Strengthen the contracting control environment through contract coverage, renewal governance, role clarity, process adherence, and effective risk escalation.
• Define and maintain clear roles and responsibilities, including RACI for contract review, approval, renewal, escalation, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Establish governance routines to review overdue actions, upcoming renewals, lapsed coverage, extensions, deviations, risks, process adherence, audit readiness, and remediation progress.
• Support internal investigations, audit activities, compliance reviews, and management responses relating to indirect contracting activities.

Process Transformation and Lean Standard Work

• Transform the indirect contracting process toward a standardized, lean, transparent, and well-controlled operating model.
• Redesign the contract renewal lifecycle with clear initiation triggers, process maps, approval pathways, standard handoffs, and defined ownership embedding mandatory function specific review checkpoints and deviation escalation.
• Implement standard work, templates, process documentation, operating rhythms, and Daily Management across PDx International.
• Drive adoption of contract lifecycle management technologies, data quality standards, automation opportunities, and reporting capabilities to improve efficiency, transparency, and risk management.
• Continuously improve routines to increase transparency, reduce email-based follow-up, improve action ownership, and reduce waste, waiting times, rework, and complexity.

Management System, KPIs and Performance Tracking

• Build and maintain a management system for indirect contracting, including KPIs, dashboards, performance reviews, action tracking, and governance routines.
• Monitor contract lifecycle performance, including contracts executed before expiry, renewal cycle duration, extensions, lapsed coverage, overdue actions, deviations, backlog, and remediation progress.
• Use data insights to identify bottlenecks, gaps, and process failures, and translate them into prioritization, escalation, resource allocation, and improvement actions.
• Provide regular updates on performance, contract coverage, risks, remediation actions, efficiency improvements, and transformation milestones.

Stakeholder Management and Cross-functional Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with all relevant support functions, such as Compliance, Legal, Finance, Regulatory, Operations, Sales Managers, and regional leadership teams.
• Align stakeholders on contracting priorities, process requirements, risk management expectations, roles and responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation points.
• Communicate complex or sensitive contracting matters clearly and effectively, helping build consensus across functions.
• Act as a senior point of contact for indirect contracting topics, escalations, governance discussions, remediation actions, and transformation initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in contract drafting and management, commercial contracting, legal operations, public procurement, commercial operations, or a related field, preferably within healthcare, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, medical technology, or another regulated industry.
• Experience managing distributor networks, working within regulated healthcare, leading cross-border contracting teams, implementing governance frameworks and responding to internal or external audits is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management, distributor or indirect customer contracting, compliance requirements, risk management, internal controls, and governance frameworks within regulated healthcare.
• Proven ability to lead a team, set priorities, drive accountability, manage operational execution, and build team capability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead process transformation, standardization, lean initiatives, Daily Management, continuous improvement, and operational excellence programs.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to define KPIs, create performance transparency, interpret operational data, identify gaps, and drive improvement actions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to align relevant support functions, such as Compliance, Legal, Finance, Regulatory, Operations, Sales, and senior business stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, strong organizational discipline, and commitment to quality, compliance, documentation accuracy, process adherence, and audit readiness.
• Ability to operate with sound judgment, autonomy, and ownership while operating effectively within defined decision-making boundaries, managing competing priorities, resolving complex issues, and driving decisions across countries and functions.
• Demonstrated experience in operating across multiple jurisdictions, cultures, and regulatory environments in a global or regional organization.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change, influence adoption of new processes, manage resistance, and sustain behavioural change across stakeholder groups.
• Lean, project management, process excellence, workflow transformation, or contract lifecycle system experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with contract workflows, lifecycle and the respective IT tools (such as Salesforce.com) are highly advantageous.
• Fluent English is required. Additional languages relevant to PDx International are a plus.

About us

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator with over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 50,000 employees globally. We enable clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by our Edison intelligence platform. We operate at the centre of an ecosystem working toward precision health – digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world. Our Pharmaceutical Diagnostics business is the number one global supplier of contrast media and molecular imaging agents used to enhance medical imaging exams. Used throughout all major disease area diagnostic and treatment pathways, PDx products support four patients every second around the world.

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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