Indirect Contracting Team Leader – Pharmaceutical Diagnostics

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

📋 Description

• Oversee comprehensive operational management of distributor, wholesaler, and sales representative contract lifecycles.

• Draft, review, execute, renew, amend, extend, and terminate contracts in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Monitor contract coverage, expiry dates, status, renewal timelines, obligations, repository accuracy, and remediation actions.

• Identify third parties lacking valid contract coverage and drive risk-based remediation efforts.

• Manage customers without valid coverage through control measures, escalation pathways, ordering restrictions, and documentation requirements.

• Enforce approved templates and coordinate due diligence, compliance, legal, regulatory, trade compliance, privacy, competition law, and anti-corruption evaluations.

• Lead, mentor, and enhance the skills of a team of contract specialists.

• Establish governance routines for renewals, lapsed coverage, risks, audit readiness, and remediation actions.

• Assist in investigations, audits, compliance reviews, and management responses.

• Transform contracting into a standardized, efficient, transparent, and controlled operational model.

• Implement standardized work, templates, process documentation, operating rhythms, Daily Management, technologies, automation, and reporting systems.

• Create KPIs, dashboards, performance reviews, action tracking, and governance routines.

• Monitor contract lifecycle performance and leverage data to drive prioritization, escalation, resource allocation, and enhancements.

• Cultivate relationships and align stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, Finance, Regulatory, Operations, Sales, and regional leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in contract drafting and management, commercial contracting, legal operations, public procurement, commercial operations, or a related discipline.

• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical technology, or another regulated industry is preferred.

• Strong preference for experience managing distributor networks, regulated healthcare, cross-border contracting teams, governance frameworks, and internal or external audits.

• Deep understanding of contract lifecycle management, distributor or indirect customer contracting, compliance requirements, risk management, internal controls, and governance frameworks within regulated healthcare.

• Proven ability in team leadership, priority setting, accountability, operational execution, and team capability development.

• Experience leading process transformation, standardization, lean initiatives, Daily Management, continuous improvement, and operational excellence programs.

• Strong analytical skills, including KPI definition, performance transparency, operational data interpretation, gap identification, and improvement actions.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing abilities.

• High attention to detail, organizational discipline, quality, compliance, documentation accuracy, process adherence, and audit readiness.

• Capability to operate with sound judgment, autonomy, and ownership within defined decision-making parameters.

• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions, cultures, and regulatory landscapes.

• Proven track record of leading organizational change and sustaining behavioral transformations.

• Strong preference for experience in lean, project management, process excellence, workflow transformation, or contract lifecycle systems.

• Familiarity with contract workflows, lifecycle tools, and IT tools such as Salesforce.com is highly advantageous.

• Fluent English is required; additional languages relevant to PDx International are a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Salary and benefits designed to provide flexibility and support.

• Career advancement opportunities.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Relocation assistance is not provided.