Contract Manager

CK Group are working in partnership with an outstanding bio-pharmaceutical company to recruit a Contracts Manager on a 6-month contract basis. This would be a largely remote role with site office presence required in Cambridge roughly once a fortnight when established. Company: Our client is an outstanding technology-powered biopharma company, in pursuit of new speciality medicines to improve the lives of patients with unmet needs in Japan and globally, focused on therapeutic areas in inflammation diseases, neurology and immunology. Job purpose: You will be required to provide contract management expertise across clinical for a range of outsourced clinical services types and work through MSAs and work orders in an organised, methodical manner. Main responsibilities:

• Reviewing new contract requests from internal customer groups.
• Communicating with functional groups to determine and define the scope of contract services required and suitability of suppliers.
• Developing Specifications and Request for Proposals in consultation with internal customers.
• Analysing supplier proposals (for both technical and budgetary content).
• Negotiating costs and executing contracts and contract amendments that are compliant, timely and significantly value adding whilst minimising risk
• Ensuring contract documentation is stored and archived within appropriate systems.
• Ensuring that negotiation of contractual terms and conditions are based on approved company Master Services Agreement and standalone templates, negotiating & executing new MSAs as required.
• Responsible for ongoing Contract Management and Supplier Oversight including changes in scope, issue escalation and resolution.

• Clinical outsourcing experience is preferred but not essential.
• Experience with Contract Management or Proposal Development also beneficial.
• Good industry knowledge.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.