Contracts Manager - Facilities & Engineering

Contracts Manager - Facilities & Engineering

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity:

This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers Roche's Indirect Procurement activities including category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Indirect Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Facilities, Digital & Tech, Commercial and Corporate Services, and Research & Development. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Contracts Manager in Facilities & Engineering, you will bring in-depth contract drafting, negotiation skills, and general understanding of applicable laws, policies and regulations to the procurement contract management and advisory capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and expertise in contract management and general procurement, you will help to ensure contracting that best manages business, legal and compliance risks, while finding pragmatic solutions to help our clients avoid unnecessary burdensome processes and delays.

You will collaborate with procurement and business stakeholders, supporting their contracting needs by providing tools, templates, playbooks, advice and counsel, and assistance with mid-complex drafting and negotiating, seeking moderate guidance when needed, enabling efficient and compliant contracting.

In addition, you will partner with various internal stakeholders, including Legal, Privacy, Tax, Drug Safety, Regulatory and Insurance to ensure contracts, tools, templates, playbooks, and positions are in line with legal requirements, Roche policies, and company needs, as well as suggest enhancements and updates based upon legal and financial risk identified during business and stakeholder discussions and third party negotiations.

You will work closely with other team members, such as the contracting enablement capability teams to gather feedback and input to meet reporting requirements, and to continuously develop, validate, enhance and deploy services, tools, templates, playbooks, processes, and service levels. Using independent judgement, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a contracting knowledge and subject matter specialist in Facilities & Engineering providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and know-how with complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contract drafting and negotiating activities.
• You are a contract drafter and negotiator - using functional, technical, and/or operational expertise to interpret, draft and negotiate complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contracts in two primary areas: non-sourceable contracts in direct support to the business (either fully or in support of the business' self service); and, working with Procurement Delivery professionals, complex scientific, commercial and/or technical contracts that require contracting functional, technical and/or operational expertise beyond provided templates and playbooks.
• You develop contracts "Best Practices" and advocate contributing to the development, improvement, and delivery of templates, playbooks, and training to procurement, the business, and other stakeholders.

Who you are:

• You hold a university degree, preferably in law.
• You have 7+ years relevant experience or fewer with 3+ years of legal credentials.
• You have Legal and Compliance subject matter expertise with extensive delegation of authority.
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.
• You are fluent in English to a Business level.

Join our team and enable the strong capability expertise needed to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

What you get:

• Full-time employment based on an employment contract.
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance.
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
• Vacation subsidy available.
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
• Hybrid work model (min. 2 visits per week at the office).
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.