Senior Contract Manager – Oncology & Pricing

USA - 3312 Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda Oncology is seeking a Senior Manager, Contract Management to lead end-to-end contracting activities for pricing, value, and access. You will draft, review, negotiate, and administer agreements with health plans, PBMs, GPOs, and government programs in a highly regulated environment.

The role emphasizes risk recognition, execution, and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Finance, and Commercial teams, supporting a Boston, MA-based product launch and ongoing contracting operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience in contract management or a regulated industry.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, administering, or negotiating commercial agreements.
• Experience managing multiple agreements across review, approval, and execution processes.
• Ability to identify contractual risk and escalate issues appropriately.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Compliance, Pricing, and Sales.

Responsibilities

• Applies contract-management principles independently to routine and moderately complex agreements and follows established escalation pathways for novel or higher-risk issues.
• Drafts, reviews, redlines, and negotiates agreements using approved templates, playbooks, fallback language, and business strategies.
• Identifies contractual, financial, operational, and compliance risks and clearly communicates the issue, potential impact, and recommended next step.
• Makes sound decisions within established authority and knows when additional input or approval is required.
• Manages a significant volume of concurrent agreements, deadlines, and stakeholder requests while maintaining accuracy and responsiveness.
• Collaborates with Market Access, Legal, Finance, Government Pricing, Contract Operations, Compliance, and account teams to ensure alignment.

Skills

Excellent written communication

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong judgment

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Takeda Oncology is seeking a Senior Manager, Contract Management to lead end-to-end contracting activities for pricing, value, and access. You will draft, review, negotiate, and administer agreements with health plans, PBMs, GPOs, and government programs in a highly regulated environment.

The role emphasizes risk recognition, execution, and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Finance, and Commercial teams, supporting a Boston, MA-based product launch and ongoing contracting operations.