Senior Contracts Manager

Job description

Job description:

*Do you pride yourself on your integrity? We do what's right for our employees, patients and partners, and so can you.*

Oxford Biomedica's Intellectual Property and Contracts team is responsible for the company's global patent and trademark portfolios, as well as contracts with our partners and suppliers.

We are currently recruiting for a Sr Contracts Manager to join the team. The main purpose of the role is to review, draft, negotiate and manage agreements with other parties in accordance with company policies and procedures and business requirements whilst managing one or more other team members.

*Your responsibilities in this role would be:*

* Review, draft and negotiate agreements with other parties as allocated, in accordance with company policies, procedures and business requirements and to minimise risks to the company

* With Senior Director, Contracts Operations, manage team processes and procedures relating to agreement request, drafting, negotiation and finalisation

* With guidance from Senior Director, Contracts Operations, work with other Contracts Manager to design and implement policies and procedures covering contract negotiation and management and to monitor compliance with such policies and procedures across the company

* Oversee day-to-day activities of more junior members of contracts team

* Keep track of status of unsigned agreements and follow up where necessary

* Handover of negotiated agreements to internal contract requesters to explain obligations

* Use all business tools available to ensure electronic correspondence and agreements are filed appropriately

* Participate in keeping Oxford Biomedica agreement templates up to date to reflect current legal precedent and in house policies

* Line managing certain member(s) of the contracts team

* Provide on-going training of more junior members of contracts team

*To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:*

* Educated to at least degree level

* Significant experience and knowledge of generation, review, negotiation, and management of a wide range of agreements with other parties

* Understanding of the importance of confidentiality and intellectual property to the organisation

* Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and Adobe; knowledge of databases

* Previous experience of managing people or teams

* Experience in a similar business an advantage

* Ability to present complex information in a context-appropriate way

* Ability to communicate key contract terms in a clear, concise, and precise way across the business at most levels

*Do you want to feel inspired every day? We're future-focused and our business is growing rapidly. We succeed together through passion, commitment and team work, and so can you.*

*Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives*

Profile description:

*Your responsibilities in this role would be:*

* Review, draft and negotiate agreements with other parties as allocated, in accordance with company policies, procedures and business requirements and to minimise risks to the company

* With Senior Director, Contracts Operations, manage team processes and procedures relating to agreement request, drafting, negotiation and finalisation

* With guidance from Senior Director, Contracts Operations, work with other Contracts Manager to design and implement policies and procedures covering contract negotiation and management and to monitor compliance with such policies and procedures across the company

* Oversee day-to-day activities of more junior members of contracts team

* Keep track of status of unsigned agreements and follow up where necessary

* Handover of negotiated agreements to internal contract requesters to explain obligations

* Use all business tools available to ensure electronic correspondence and agreements are filed appropriately

* Participate in keeping Oxford Biomedica agreement templates up to date to reflect current legal precedent and in house policies

* Line managing certain member(s) of the contracts team

* Provide on-going training of more junior members of contracts team

*To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:*

* Educated to at least degree level

* Significant experience and knowledge of generation, review, negotiation, and management of a wide range of agreements with other parties

* Understanding of the importance of confidentiality and intellectual property to the organisation

* Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and Adobe; knowledge of databases

* Previous experience of managing people or teams

* Experience in a similar business an advantage

* Ability to present complex information in a context-appropriate way

* Ability to communicate key contract terms in a clear, concise, and precise way across the business at most levels

*Do you want to feel inspired every day? We're future-focused and our business is growing rapidly. We succeed together through passion, commitment and team work, and so can you.*

*Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives*

We offer:

We are a pioneering gene therapy business, and our mission is delivering life changing gene therapies to patients. We work together, motivated to make a difference, and so can you.

We are pioneers; no one else does what we do.

Gene therapy is the treatment of disease by the delivery of therapeutic DNA into a patient's cells. It is transforming medicine as we know it, long term and potentially curative treatments for a wide range of diseases are now possible.

We are at the forefront of this exciting area. We have a strong reputation in gene therapy, with world leading expertise in lentiviral vectors. We have a leading, integrated platform of exclusive technologies to design, develop and bioprocess unique gene based medicines, both in house and with partners.

We drive credible science to realise incredible results.

Whether you're motivated by the discovery and development of product candidates within Research, or by cutting edge tools and technologies including AI and automation of our contract development and manufacturing organisation, we can offer you a career like no other. We are excited about our future. Join us and change lives.