Contracts Manager / Senior Contracts Manager
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Faeth TherapeuticsBiotechnology, pharmaceuticals
Remote (U.S.)Full-TimeManager
Salary118,000 - 160,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years negotiating and managing contracts at a biotech or pharmaceutical company, or at a law firm or CRO serving them, with most of your career in life sciences.
Requirements
- Have 5+ years negotiating and managing contracts at a biotech or pharmaceutical company, or at a law firm or CRO serving them, with most of your career in life sciences.
- Bring direct, hands-on experience negotiating standard biotech agreements with counterparties.
- Demonstrate practical judgment closing agreements quickly, protecting important terms, and resolving lower-stakes points without unnecessary back-and-forth.
- Have experience administering a contract lifecycle management system, not just using one.
- Have a track record of owning contract signatures, filing, and tracking.
- Be actively using AI tools in your work and interested in expanding that use.
- Preferred: experience with Ironclad Signature or DocuSign.
- Preferred: public-company experience.
- Preferred: experience building playbooks or a template library, or leading a CLM implementation.
- Preferred: exposure to clinical operations contracting or broader legal operations.
- A paralegal certificate or law degree is welcome but not required.
Responsibilities
- Draft, redline, and negotiate company agreements directly with counterparties, including clinical, CMC, vendor, CRO, and other agreements.
- Apply contract playbooks, protect important terms, resolve lower-stakes points efficiently, and escalate matters to the General Counsel when warranted.
- Own agreement timelines, keep requesters informed, and move agreements to signature.
- Triage contract requests and route them to the appropriate reviewers.
- Build and maintain contract playbooks, including company positions, fallbacks, review and approval routes, and escalation guidance.
- Route approvals, manage signatures, file executed agreements in Ironclad, and track renewals, expirations, and obligations.
- Administer Ironclad workflows, templates, metadata, permissions, and user training.
- Maintain the template library and keep templates and playbooks current.
- Coordinate outside counsel and consultants on specialist questions.
- Use and improve AI tools and support legal operations, vendor review, employee training, and process improvement as contract volume allows.
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