Commercial Affairs Director

London, United Kingdom; Manchester, United Kingdom

Job title: Commercial Affairs Director

Employment type: Full-time, permanent

Working arrangements: Onsite, Remote, or Hybrid

Location: UK

Package & benefits: Base salary, Pension, PMI, Life Assurance, 25 days leave annually, flexible working.

Reporting to: VP, Group Commercial Affairs

The Role

We're looking for a dynamic and experienced Commercial Affairs Director to join our team. You'll report to our VP, Group Commercial Affairs, and occasionally travel internationally.

Your mission: oversee our commercial operations, build relationships, and contribute to strategic planning and business development, while ensuring legal compliance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with one of the Inizio Business Units (BU) and understand their main operational and financial drivers.
• Build and nurture client relationships, understanding their requirements.
• Collaborate across the Inizio business, keeping all team members informed.
• Lead MSA negotiations, working with business and legal teams to ensure timely signatures.
• Provide summaries and training on important Master Service Agreement (MSA) terms to the business.
• Ensure all client MSAs/SOWs and data points are loaded into the HighQ system.
• Work with our finance teams to keep pricing updated and aligned with our needs.
• Manage a team of Contract Analysts, ensuring SOWs meet requirements, quality standards, and are accomplished on time.
• Ensure SOW accuracy and consistency.
• Develop Contract Analysts, providing regular feedback and support.
• Manage pricing council submissions through the internal pricing approval process, partnering with the BU CFO.

About you

• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems, analyse information, and achieve quality standards.
• Flexibility to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Minimum of a bachelor's level degree, or relevant experience.
• Previous experience building and leading a global Commercial function, ideally in a professional services or pharmaceutical organization.

About us

At Inizio, we help our clients navigate their clinical development and commercialization journey by connecting the best scientific knowledge, market intelligence, actionable data, technology, communication, and creative execution. With a global presence and multiple career paths, the career possibilities are expanding at Inizio. We're a growing global team of 11,700 - a $1.5bn revenue business working with the world's leading health and life sciences businesses, and we have exciting growth plans. Whoever and wherever you are, we'll empower you with the autonomy you need to experiment, learn, and grow. We'll make sure that you feel valued, supported and, of course, because we're helping our clients to transform healthcare and improve millions of lives, you can feel pride in your work at Inizio.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disability.

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