[Hiring] Senior Legal Contract Manager @Worldwide Clinical Trials

Role Description

The Senior Legal Contract Manager is responsible for independently reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and managing sponsor-facing legal and commercial contracts. This role primarily supports Master Services Agreements (MSAs), including sponsor-provided templates, Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs), MSA amendments, ad hoc sponsor contracts, contract notices, and related documentation. The position requires the ability to:

• Apply internal guidance documents, playbooks, approved fallback positions, and standard clauses.
• Identify, resolve, and appropriately escalate legal, operational, financial, regulatory, and business issues.
• Propose practical contract language.
• Manage contract matters from intake through execution.
• Interact frequently with sponsors, Finance, Business Development, Operations, Therapeutic Leaders, Legal Counsel, and senior stakeholders.
• Participate in and manage sponsor/client negotiation calls.
• Prioritize contract matters based on business urgency, deal impact, revenue considerations, and operational need.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, contracts management, healthcare administration, life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience required; JD preferred but not required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and managing commercial contracts.
• At least 3 years of experience in CRO, clinical research, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences, or sponsor-facing contracting preferred.
• Demonstrated experience independently managing sponsor-facing contract matters.
• Experience applying contract guidance documents, playbooks, standard clauses, and approved fallback positions.
• Familiarity with contract management systems, CRM platforms, Salesforce.com, Microsoft Word redlining, Excel trackers, and document-management processes preferred.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of legal and commercial contracting principles.
• Ability to perform at a senior individual-contributor level with limited supervision.
• Ability to prioritize work based on business urgency, deal impact, revenue considerations, sponsor needs, and operational timelines.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment on practical contract positions and issue resolution.
• Ability to represent the company professionally in sponsor/client negotiations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word redlining, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce accurate, complete, internally approved, execution-ready, and high-quality contract work product.
• Ability to manage multiple complex contract matters simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to work varied hours when required to support contract negotiations, sponsor/client calls, internal escalations, and business needs.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, military status, or other class protected by applicable law.