Job Summary
The Manager, R&D Contract & Budget Management provides operational and analytical contract support for R&D business functions, managing the end-to-end contract lifecycle. This role partners cross-functionally with R&D stakeholders, Legal, Global Strategic Sourcing, Finance, and external vendors to ensure compliant, efficient, and cost-effective contract execution.
The Manager works independently on standard agreements and operates with moderate autonomy, escalating complex legal, financial, or risk matters as appropriate.
Essential Functions of the Job, include:
- Draft and negotiate work order agreements, change order amendments, loan equipment agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and requests for proposals.
- Review, revise, and manage contracts supporting routine activities, including consulting, supplier, distributor, clinical, service, and other non-standard agreements.
- Escalate complex legal and factual matters to Legal and support issue resolution.
- Oversee contract lifecycle management, including maintaining contract files, managing the contract request system, tracking deliverables, and generating reports.
- Partner with the business teams to prepare and execute CDA and NDA agreements.
- Lead onboarding and training for new Contract Managers.
- Train internal stakeholders on contract management systems and processes.
- Facilitate weekly and monthly contract status meetings as appropriate.
- Prepare contract summaries and ensure agreements are executed in compliance with company policies and service level standard turnaround times.
- Support the business contract requests and monitor execution timelines.
- Secure all required internal approvals for contract terms and provisions prior to execution.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
Qualifications (Minimal acceptable level of education, work experience, and competency)
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotech contract management or clinical budget management.
- Experience with vendor negotiations and CRO interactions.
- Proficiency in CLM systems (e.g., SAP, Ariba).
- Strong analytical and cross-functional communication skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of contract lifecycle management processes, including drafting, review, approval workflows, and execution.
- Working knowledge of pharmaceutical/biotech regulatory requirements impacting R&D contracts (e.g., GxP, Sunshine Act, data privacy considerations).
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, and R&D stakeholders.
- Ability to identify contractual risk and escalate appropriately.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple contracts and deadlines simultaneously.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with ability to analyze and summarize contract data.
- Experience supporting audits or compliance reviews related to contracting activities.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures.
Kaztronix is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. In addition, all human resource actions in such areas as compensation, employee benefits, transfers, layoffs, training and development are to be administered objectively, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.
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