Contracts Manager (Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX)

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The Position

Contracts Manager - Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.

Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity:

This role sits within the Materials, Manufacturing and CAPEX Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution.

The Materials, Manufacturing and CAPEX Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Raw Materials, External Manufacturing Services, Logistics, Research & Lab Materials, and Engineering (CAPEX).

The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Contracts Manager in Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX, you will bring in-depth contract drafting, negotiation skills, and general understanding of applicable laws, policies and regulations to the procurement contract management and advisory capability area.

Using your specialized knowledge and expertise in contract management and general procurement, you will help to ensure contracting that best manages business, legal and compliance risks, while finding pragmatic solutions to help our clients avoid unnecessary burdensome processes and delays.

You will collaborate with procurement and business stakeholders, supporting their contracting needs by providing tools, templates, playbooks, advice and counsel, and assistance with mid-complex drafting and negotiating, seeking moderate guidance when needed, enabling efficient and compliant contracting. 

In addition, you will partner with various internal stakeholders, including Legal, Privacy, Tax, Drug Safety, Regulatory and Insurance to ensure contracts, tools, templates, playbooks, and positions are in line with legal requirements, Roche policies, and company needs, as well as suggest enhancements and updates based upon legal and financial risk identified during business and stakeholder discussions and third party...