Contract Administrator

StevenDouglas; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

StevenDouglas is seeking a temporary contracts professional to draft, negotiate, and process procurement-facing agreements for outsourced discovery science services. This role is an individual contributor reporting to a contracting lead and relies on templates, playbooks, and systems.

You will manage a high volume of concurrent assignments, use SAP Ariba for purchase requisitions, and provide regular status updates.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of contract drafting and negotiation in pharma/biotech procurement.
• Working knowledge of IP, confidentiality, indemnification, liability, and payment terms.
• Ability to manage many concurrent agreements with accuracy and timelines.
• Experience with templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks.
• Experience with a contract lifecycle management (CLM) system.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including direct negotiation with suppliers.
• Proficiency in Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize assigned agreements including CDAs and software/SaaS agreements.
• Negotiate with third-party suppliers using templates and playbooks.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent assignments and adjust priorities.
• Flag non-standard terms and risks with options for resolution.
• Use CLM system for intake, drafting, version control, and tracking.
• Create purchase requisitions in SAP Ariba for executed agreements.
• Provide regular status updates to the contracting lead.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Communication

Tools

SAP Ariba

CLM system

Outlook/Word/Excel

Job description

Location: Remote, light office duties, no travel

Overview

Our client needs a temporary contracts professional to draft, negotiate, and process procurement-facing agreements for outsourced discovery science services. This is an individual contributor role. You will work from assignments given by a contracting lead and execute them accurately and on time, using templates, playbooks, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize assigned agreements, including CDAs, work orders and amendments, and software/SaaS agreements supporting research
• Negotiate directly with third-party suppliers using templates, fallback positions and playbooks
• Manage a high volume of concurrent assignments and adjust priorities as directed by the contracting lead
• Flag non-standard terms and risks outside playbook positions to the contracting lead, with a clear summary and proposed options
• Use CLM system for intake, drafting, version control, status tracking, and record keeping
• Create purchase requisitions in SAP Ariba for executed agreements
• Provide regular status updates to the contracting lead

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of contract drafting and negotiation in a pharma, biotech, CRO, or life sciences procurement setting
• Working knowledge of IP, confidentiality, indemnification, limitation of liability, and payment terms
• Ability to manage many concurrent agreements with accuracy
• Experience with templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks
• Experience with a contract lifecycle management (CLM) system
• Strong written and verbal communication, including direct negotiation with external suppliers
• Proficiency in Outlook, Word, and Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contracting for outsourced research services (preclinical CROs, discovery biology, chemistry services)
• Biology or related scientific background, with enough literacy to translate study scope and deliverables into contract language (in vitro/in vivo studies, assay development)
• Experience with software and SaaS agreements, including research data platforms
• Experience with SAP Ariba or a similar procurement system
• Comfort using AI tools for contract drafting and review

Out of Scope

• Engaging internal business partners, scientific teams, or project management teams on intake
• Escalating directly to Legal or other internal experts (all escalations go through the contracting lead)

Procure-to-pay work beyond purchase requisition creation, including invoice reconciliation