Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Senior Contract Associate Position-Biotech

The Position is in South San Francisco, CA!


The Senior Contracts Associate will be a member of the Commercial Contracts Group. This person will prepare, negotiate and approve various commercial contracts for Biotech Commercial Group (including service agreements with health care professionals and vendor service agreements pertaining to marketing, training and other related services). This position requires extensive knowledge of contract language and the ability to work on very complex contracts. The contracts associate must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with frequent tight deadlines under minimal supervision. The contract associate must also work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively with both internal/external customers as well as the Commercial Legal Group.
Responsibilities:

- Prepare, negotiate and manage commercial contracts with some attorney supervision
- Work as a member of team to develop and implement various standardized processes and procedures to increase the ability of the contracts department to effectively manage the wide-variety high volume of transactions
- Work independently interfacing with the Commercial Legal Group and internal/external customers
- Prepare ad hoc presentations and conduct internal customer training
- Maintain department databases and participate in ad hoc assignments
- Frequent verbal and written internal and external communication necessary.
- Ensure business activities and contracts comply with internal policies and guidelines, and industry laws and regulations
Skills &Requirements:
- Must have MAC experience
- Extensive contracting experience is necessary
- Familiarity with industry-related compliance matters
- Knowledge of legal, sales and business processes
- Creative and self-motivated
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to balance legal/contractual issues with business risk
- Position requires a minimum 5 years contract drafting experience or 3 years of paralegal experience along with a paralegal certificate or bachelor's degree.
- A paralegal certificate or law degree is a plus.
- Disciplined, organized, and flexible
- Team Player
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required
- Adept in working with MS Office, various databases and contract management systems

Position requires a minimum 5 years contract drafting experience or 3 years of paralegal experience along with a paralegal certificate or bachelor’s degree.
- A paralegal certificate or law degree is a plus

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