Commercial Contracts, Manager

Avania; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Avania is hiring a Manager, Commercial Contracts to lead and execute complex commercial agreements across sponsors, vendors, confidentiality and site agreements. You will draft, review, negotiate, and close contracts, ensuring alignment with Avania's business strategy and legal protections.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, monitor contract lifecycles, maintain templates, and support data protection compliance, including GDPR and HIPAA considerations where applicable.

Qualifications

• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Ability to manage multiple contract types (global sponsor, vendor, NDA).
• Knowledge of data protection practices and related laws.

Responsibilities

• Drive, negotiate, review, and process contracts in a commercially reasonable manner.
• Lead client and supplier contract negotiations based on templates and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain templates and negotiation tools for contract processes.
• Monitor expiration dates and coordinate follow-up actions.

Job description

Avania is hiring - Commercial Contracts, Manager

Salary Range $90,000 - $110,000 + 8% bonus + benefits

Are you looking for a high-visibility, high-impact role where your contribution makes a real difference? Have you worked in a regulated industry and know how to look for and find the practical solution to important business questions?

Join our Legal team and focus on managing, leading, drafting, negotiating and closing various commercial contracts (such as global sponsor/sales contracts, change orders, vendor contracts, confidentiality agreements, site agreements, and other Avania contracts), ensuring the protection of the of Avania's legal interests in alignment with Avania's business strategy.

As our Manager, Commercial Contracts, you will -

• Drive, negotiate, review, and process contracts in a commercially reasonable manner that protects Avania's fundamental interests and in a manner consistent with company rules, practices, and policies. Execute agreements as appropriate under applicable business controls.
• Lead/produce/review/revise and manage negotiations for Client Specific Contracts and Supplier Contracts based on Avania or counterparty template, available guidelines and instructions from the legal team.
• Develop and ongoing maintenance of templates, negotiation guidelines and tools to lead the management of the contract processes, e.g. template CDA, MSA, CTA, QA as directed by the Sr Manager.
• Monitor expiration dates of commercial agreements, and work with management to determine appropriate follow up steps.
• Work closely with appropriate Business Development staff to keep them informed of progress of agreements.
• Provide support in client contract negotiations for BAP and Ops teams, including group negotiation calls and direct client communication.
• Collaborate with Avania operational staff to obtain all information required for the production or review of contracts, including scopes of work, budgets, and payment schedules.
• Identify potential obstacles in the contracting process promptly and work internally to minimize delays and to facilitate the prompt conclusion of contractual negotiations.
• Maintain, provide administrative support, create reports and perform other activities with respect to our contract management system (CMS).
• Set-up and improve the internal review/revision/sign-off process on contracts prior to forwarding to external parties.
• Provide necessary administrative and operational support to bring and maintain the legal in-housekeeping at diligence-able level with respect to all commercial contracts.
• Drive, promote and maintain a data protection culture; under Sr Manager's supervision, liaise with DPO, IT and other relevant stakeholders in an effort to ensure Avania complies with data protection laws and practices with taking into account GDPR, Australian Privacy Act, US HIPAA and (international) data transfers.
• Support the preparation of internal training materials and presentations.