Contract Manager

Superior SDI Slovakia s.r.o. is looking for an experienced Contract Manager that will be responsible for facilitating contracting including active contract review, analysis, redlining, negotiation. It will be key for this individual to manage collaboration across multiple locations with cross-functional stakeholders, including Legal, Global Process Owners, and other important cross-functional teams. It will also be key for this individual to manage and handle escalations in the contracting process. 

This position is hired for SDI´s client, an international pharmaceutical leader in the market.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Lead contract facilitation process for contracts 
• Serve as primary escalation point for approximately 5 Sourcing Excellence (“SE”) contract facilitators for template questions, redlines to contract terms, and other process items.  
• Oversee the facilitation of an upward of 20+ contracts at any given time. 
• Support contract executions in a timely method with appropriate legal oversight to ensure compliance with company standards 
• Coordinate redlines and negotiation strategies with legal and other stakeholders as well as suppliers: 
• Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders. 
• Complete gap analysis, review, redline and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language. 
• Defend legal terms on standard internal templates, agreements and third-party paper where necessary. 
• Ensure appropriate written guidelines are followed and/or subject matter expert (“SME”) input is obtained throughout the process (e.g., privacy, finance, international and domestic taxation, customs and trade, information security, systems quality, software asset management, and other SMEs) 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure excellence in contract management 
• Collaborate with client´s Legal in its development, oversight and maintenance of relevant contract templates, fallback and guidance 
• Identify points of escalation for Sourcing Excellence (‘SE’) to interface with Legal, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., Compliance, Audit, etc.,) regarding contracting and Procurement policy and related operational questions 
• Support continuous contracting capability within Procurement 
• Participate in training for professional development and further expansion of contracting skillsets 
• Ensure thresholds and hand-offs between Business, Legal, and other involved parties are clear and well communicated 
• Interact with Internal/External Stakeholders: 
• Procurement Functional Leadership 
• Sourcing Excellence Functional Leads / Teams 
• Client´s Legal Teams 

• Meal Tickets - 100% covered by Employer in amount of 5,90 EUR (including vacation days, doctor visits, personal days)
• 3 additional vacation days – Personal days
• Referral bonus
• Multi-sport card
• Sick leave compensation
• Birthday gift card in the amount of 50 EUR
• Health contribution 183 EUR/year
• Sports contribution 23 EUR/month
• Home office
• Team-building and CSR activities
• Working in a Multinational environment, with globally friendly teams

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