Contracts Manager – Senior

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Draft, negotiate, and amend the company's agreements directly with counterparties, such as CDAs, consulting agreements, MSAs and SOWs, vendor and CRO agreements, clinical trial agreements, CMC and supply agreements, and MTAs.

• Utilize playbooks judiciously and escalate matters to the General Counsel when necessary.

• Manage agreement timelines, keep requesters updated, and expedite agreements to signature.

• Prioritize and triage contract requests across the organization, routing matters as needed.

• Develop and maintain contract playbooks, detailing positions, fallbacks, review and approval responsibilities, and escalation criteria.

• Route approvals, oversee signatures, file executed agreements in Ironclad with appropriate metadata, and monitor renewals, expirations, and obligations.

• Oversee and manage the Ironclad contract repository, including workflows, templates, metadata, permissions, and user training.

• Revamp Faeth's contracting process and enhance its AI-assisted intake tool.

• Maintain the template library and ensure templates and playbooks are up-to-date.

• Coordinate with outside counsel and consultants on specialized inquiries.

• Employ and enhance AI tools while proposing process improvements.

• Engage in legal operations tasks such as vendor evaluations, employee training on contracting, and process enhancements as contract volume permits.

• Report directly to the General Counsel.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in negotiating and managing contracts within a biotech or pharmaceutical company, or at a law firm or CRO that serves them, with a significant portion of your career in life sciences.

• Direct, hands-on experience negotiating the standard set of biotech agreements with counterparties, rather than merely routing documents for others.

• Practical judgment demonstrated by a history of swiftly closing agreements while safeguarding key terms and resolving low-stakes issues without excessive back-and-forth.

• Experience in administering a contract lifecycle management system, beyond simply utilizing one.

• Proven track record in managing the administrative aspects of contracting (signatures, filing, tracking) with the necessary organizational discipline and service-oriented mindset.

• Active and current use of AI tools in your role, with a desire to deepen this engagement.

• Preferred qualifications: experience with Ironclad Signature or Docusign; experience in a public company; having developed playbooks or a template library or led a CLM implementation; exposure to clinical operations contracting; broader experience in legal operations.

• A paralegal certificate or law degree is appreciated but not mandatory.

• Successful completion of a background check.

• Verification of eligibility to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in a well-funded, clinical-stage biotech.

• 100% remote work with a flexible schedule.

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.

• Flexible time off policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Traditional and Roth 401k options.

• Mission-oriented, remote-first culture.