What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Contracts Management Associate position at Helsinn Therapeutics?
Description
Key Responsibilities :
- Provides support to the Legal Department in managing all legal contract processes and legal matters pertaining to the U.S. organization.
- Manages the overall contract process from request to execution and provides advice and guidance to internal clients regarding contract requests.
- Serves as point of contact for the legal contract process.
- Reviews and revises a high volume of contracts and ensures adherence to company policies and procedures, company standards and other requirements, and conformance to master agreements and HTU templates.
- Reviews appropriate terms and conditions, coordinating with internal legal counsel and business units, for acceptance of any non-standard agreement terms where necessary.
- Organizes and analyzes information and cross-checks and validates information relating to contracts and other legal matters.
- Prepares correspondence, proofreads and edits legal forms and documents for accuracy.
- Implements and maintains electronic management systems for contracts to track progression of agreements and manage deadlines.
- Coordinates and expedites the review and execution of legal documents with Helsinn Group Legal.
- Responsible for ongoing implementation of technical and procedural improvements to contract life cycle management.
- Assists the Finance department in tracking payment of invoices vs. contract terms and tracks external legal fees for payment.
- Assists VP, Legal in updating appropriate HTU SOPs and providing training.
- Builds and manages relationships with HTU's internal stakeholders and business partners as well as relevant third-party vendors / business partners.
- Identifies and escalates issues and risks, current and potential, to the internal client / or VP Legal.
- Supports administrative needs of the department, such as invoice processing, expense reporting and other requests, as needed.
- In collaboration with Compliance Department, assists with third party due diligence and HCP needs assistance.
- Performs project administration and other responsibilities as directed.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
- Incumbent will work closely with all HTU departments and will collaborate with Helsinn Group Legal at HHC in Lugano.
- Build excellent inter and intra department relationships within Helsinn, in addition to working effectively with outside counsel, vendors and other third parties.
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