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Senior Contract Consultant

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

As a Senior Contracts Consultant, you will manage, draft, negotiate, and finalize a variety of U.S.-based sales contracts and master agreements, including Commitment, Rebate Growth Incentive Agreements, and other key agreements. The role involves cross collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment with company standards while maintaining hyper focused on customer experience.

Key responsibilities include:

•  Facilitate both internal and external calls to review and resolve conflicts and finalize contracts. Understand and effectively communicate the differences between agreement types and versions. Ensure that risk is mitigated, and provisions are preferred or acceptable per company standard.
• Provide guidance and influence the commercial integrators/sales as it relates to appropriately structuring a deal and negotiating contractual provisions and commitments that meet strategic goals on behalf of BD.
• Collaborate with other senior negotiators, contracts specialists and SMEs to provide a best in class contracting experience to our valued customers. 
• Accountable for multiple rounds of constructive negotiating and redlining of contract terms and conditions.  Carefully review and revise customer redlines and develop responses consistent with BD policies, business positions, statutory/legal requirements, and customer specifications, with a focus on speed to execution.
• Work directly with Sales, Legal, Marketing, and other SMEs/Leaders to balance customer requirements while protecting BD’s interests and mitigating risk. 
• Coordinate across other teams to ensure consistency with policies, procedures and overall general provisions across all customer segments for BD, as well as smooth handoffs between teams and effective customer agreement terms and conditions.
• Help administer and enforce policies, procedures, and processes to harmonize contract negotiation and general provisions, with appropriate flexibility to meet customer/market needs and dynamics.
• Support process improvement projects (templates, standard terms, system updates, etc.) to drive operational efficiencies and standardization throughout the organization.
• Work with team members to update management and customers regarding project status, KPIs, metrics reporting and project risks.
• Keep appraise of emerging healthcare industry trends and assess their potential impact on IDN and other segment contracting and negotiation strategies.

• Act with speed, agility and accountability enabling the achievement of excellence

About you:

 Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management and organizational agility while maintaining a sharp customer focus. You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound business and operational judgment, and the ability to make timely decisions that drive process effectiveness.

Required education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree OR at least 8 years of relevant work experience
• At least 5 years of demonstrated experience in redlining/negotiating, implementing business strategy, and building strong relationships with cross functional teams OR at least 3 years of above listed experience with a legal degree
• Strong understanding of U.S. Antitrust laws and Sarbanes Oxley required.
• Strong understanding of commercial contract management, including contract strategy development, negotiations, policy development and standardization of general terms with medical device products.
• Demonstrated customer centricity skills and consistent expectations across team, able to negotiate/adapt to customer needs while maintaining protection of BD’s interests.
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