Contracts Manager - MX

The UnitedLex Contracts Services Group is excited to hire a Contracts Manager into our expanding, dynamic team to support existing client relationships by assisting the client in its sourcing department.

This is a remote position, and we welcome applicants from Mexico. See "About Us" for more information about our corporate philosophy, perks, and benefits!

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and quality check Non-Disclosure / Confidentiality Agreements, Teaming Agreements and Vendor Contracts to meet expectations of our client.
• Participate in calls with our client and negotiation calls with counterparties.
• Exercise excellent professional judgement in negotiation and redlining; resolve first-level disputes and escalate appropriate questions to UnitedLex senior legal team providing support to the client as well as the client’s legal team.
• Collaborate with client legal team to resolve issues and develop efficient and effective negotiation strategies.
• Ensure adherence to client vendor management requirements that achieve the optimal combination of service, cost, quality, and risk mitigation.
• Build and strengthen strong working relationships with clients based on confidence, performance, accountability, and visibility.
• Maintain professional communication with clients via daily emails, calls and video calls.
• Assist in the implementation, and communication of formal policies, processes and procedures to govern a supplier contract throughout its life-cycle, including but not limited to appraisal, assessment, on-boarding, risk and performance monitoring, policy compliance, and communication.
• Stay abreast of and contribute to sourcing and procurement’s professional trends and functional innovation particularly around legal and contractual matters.
• Willingness to assume additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• A law degree with 5+ years of commercial contract experience, preferably in biopharma vertical.
• Comfortable with negotiating complex agreements with a counterparty (i.e., communicating via phone or web meeting as necessary to represent client’s interest and negotiate points of a contract to completion).
• Experience handling demanding clients.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow a standard operating procedure with business/legal judgment to account for risk while meeting timeline demands by client.
• Strong written and verbal English skills with a customer-focused approach.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Role will be full remote with working hours aligned to standard U.S. business hours.

About Us

UnitedLex was founded with a mission to push the boundaries of innovation, and we commit to support our teams, communities, and clients. True to these goals, we overwhelmingly hire with a “Remote First” philosophy, maintaining the infrastructure to foster the success of remote employees no matter their location. UnitedLex believes in a healthy work-life balance and is committed to creating a flexible, results-based environment. In addition to our core benefits (medical, dental, and vision), we offer generous time off policies, 401(k) and Roth 401(k) options including company match, paid parental leave, company-paid short and long term disability, company-paid life insurance, as well as an EAP plan that covers employees and household members. Our suite of employee-friendly benefits is evolving annually to meet the needs of our flexible workforce.