Contracts Manager/Senior Contracts Manager
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Faeth TherapeuticsBiotechnology
Remote (U.S.)Full-TimeManager
Salary$118,000 - $160,000
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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 hands-on experience negotiating standard biotech agreements directly with counterparties, not only routing documents for others.
- Demonstrate practical judgment closing agreements efficiently, 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 owned contract administration, including signatures, filing, and tracking.
- Actively use AI tools at work and be interested in expanding that use.
- Preferred: Ironclad Signature or DocuSign experience, public-company experience, experience building playbooks or a template library or leading a CLM implementation, exposure to clinical operations contracting, or broader legal operations experience.
- A paralegal certificate or law degree is welcome but not required.
Responsibilities
- Draft, redline, and negotiate agreements directly with counterparties, including CDAs, consulting agreements, MSAs and SOWs, vendor and CRO agreements, clinical trial agreements, CMC and supply agreements, and MTAs.
- Apply playbooks with judgment, protect important intellectual property, confidentiality, and data terms, and escalate matters to the General Counsel when appropriate.
- Own agreement timelines, keep requesters informed, and move agreements to signature efficiently.
- Triage contract requests across the company and route matters as needed.
- Build and maintain contract playbooks, including positions, fallbacks, review and approval responsibilities, 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.
- Improve the contracting process and maintain the template library and playbooks.
- Coordinate outside counsel and consultants on specialist questions, and use and improve AI tools.
- Take on legal operations work such as vendor review, employee training, and process improvement as contract volume allows.
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