HealthCare Contract Manager (Hybrid-New Jersey)

AnewHealth is one of the nation’s leading pharmacy care management companies that specializes in caring for people with the most complex, chronic needs—wherever they call home. We enable better outcomes for patients and the healthcare organizations who support them. Established in 2023 through the combination of ExactCare and Tabula Rasa HealthCare, we provide a suite of solutions that includes comprehensive pharmacy services; full-service pharmacy benefit management; and specialized support services for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. With over 1,400 team members, we care for more than 100,000 people across all 50 states.

Job Details

The HealthCare Contract Manager is responsible for executing on the vision we have defined for our customer’s journey from time of sales lead to contract execution with TRHC. This role is responsible for ensuring adherence to our sales and contracting process, and for complying with documentation standards required to support our commercial growth. Day-to-day, the Business Operations Manager is responsible for ensuring that sales pipelines are accurately reflected in the CRM and that client contracts are created within our targeted service level timeframes, and he/she/they are instrumental in driving the required cross-functional internal collaboration needed to create and negotiate each client contract. In many situations the Business Operations Manager is working on multiple contracts simultaneously, so the ability to balance multiple simultaneous deadlines is critical.

Responsibilities

• Drafting and Reviewing Contracts: Using approved templates, prepare, review, and revise a variety of contracts, including Master Service Agreements, Statements of Work, Business Associate Agreements and Non-Disclosure Agreements.

• Contract Negotiation: Coordinate contract negotiations with internal stakeholders and external clients, ensuring terms are clear, fair, and align with organizational goals.

• Contract Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure all contracts comply with company policies, legal guidelines, and industry regulations. Identify potential risks in contract language and mitigate them accordingly.

• Sales Lifecycle Management: Maintain a structured system for tracking sales lifecycles, from initial lead through contract, contract renewal or termination. Ensure timely renewals and compliance with all contractual obligations.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with legal, procurement, finance, and operational teams to support contract needs and maintain strong communication with relevant stakeholders.

• Documentation and Record Keeping: Manage accurate and organized documentation of all contracts. Ensure contracts are stored and accessible to authorized personnel.

• Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements for contract management systems, procedures, and workflows.

Disclaimer:  The above essential functions are representative of major duties of positions in this job classification. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned like the above consistent with knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job.  Not all duties may be assigned to a position.

Qualifications

These represent the desired qualifications of the ideal candidate. They are not meant to limit consideration for candidates who do not meet all of the standards listed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Required:  Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Law, Finance, or related field (Master’s or JD preferred).

• 2 Years of proven experience as a Contract Manager or similar role, preferably in Healthcare.

• Experience using computer business applications including, MS Office Suite with an emphasis on MS Excel and Outlook, and Salesforce.com

Skills & Abilities

• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills.

• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Proficiency in MS Office; familiarity with contract management systems preferred.

Physical & Mental Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Schedule

• ​This is a full-time position with an expectation to work an average of 40 hours per week, and an ability to be available outside of normal business hours to meet customer deliverables on an ad-hoc basis. Normal business hours are between 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Travel

• Travel to trade shows, educational or sales events as may be required.

AnewHealth provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status, or other legally protected classification in the state in which a person is seeking employment. Applicants are encouraged to confidentially self-identify when applying. Local applicants are encouraged to apply. We maintain a drug-free work environment. Applicants must be eligible to work in this country.