Vendor Contracts Manager

🕒 September 4

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $52.5k - $104.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Worldwide Clinical Trials is a global contract research organization (CRO) that provides comprehensive clinical trial services. They specialize in supporting studies across diverse therapeutic areas such as oncology, cardiology, and rare diseases. With over 30 years of experience, Worldwide Clinical Trials emphasizes personalized support and customized solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of drug development. Their services include clinical monitoring, data management, patient recruitment, and regulatory consulting, ensuring precision and tailored attention for each clinical trial.

📋 Description

• Manage the development, preparation, revision, negotiation, execution, and full life cycle of vendor contracts and change orders/amendments • Prepare and process vendor contracts, purchasing, sourcing, and related transaction documents • Draft, review, and negotiate vendor agreements and general business purpose agreements • Draft or incorporate vendor budgets, scopes of work, and legal, financial, and operational terms • Ensure adherence to master agreements, company policies, procedures, applicable laws, and sponsor requirements • Provide contract management and policy compliance advice to business units and project teams • Work with Legal, Strategic Sourcing, Business Development, and Global Business Operations to develop master service agreements, statements of work, change orders, and service agreements • Perform risk analysis, identify contract risks and liabilities, and propose mitigating provisions • Engage internal subject matter experts in information gathering, document development, contract issue reviews, and pricing discussions • Manage contract and issue approval processes and document required approvals and deviations • Conduct negotiations to achieve compliant agreement closure • Analyze contracting efforts to identify root causes and implement process improvements that reduce development cycle time • Interact with vendors and business operations on contracting and change-order documents

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, or Finance, plus nominal contracts management experience or equivalent combination of education and experience • 3-5 years of direct experience with CRO or pharmaceutical in negotiating vendor agreements • Advanced Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) • Experience with process improvement and/or change management or can be mentored for development • Ability to work independently with confidence • Strong planning, strategizing, managing, monitoring, scheduling, and analytical skills • Effective legal and business negotiation skills • Strong interpersonal skills in a fast-paced, deadline oriented, and changing environment • Effective stakeholder management with cross functional teams for process improvement and/or change initiatives • Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate via the phone and in person with a high degree of professionalism • Must be customer focused and able to manage challenging priorities and remain flexible and adaptable in stressful situations

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package depending on location • Inclusive and equitable workplace • Transparent compensation and pay equity