Senior Manager, Contracts

What if…you could join a company that fundamentally redesign the way drugs are created for the sake of bringing new hope to patients?

What this position is all about:

This is an outstanding career opportunity for a highly motivated Sr. Manager, Contracts to join the Legal team at Cellarity   The ideal candidate will have experience in preparing and negotiating a broad range of agreement related to the research and development, IT and general business needs across the organization.  Must be detail-oriented and have strong organizational skills to effectively manage competing priorities and multiple situations at one time. Requires the ability to proactively build organizational knowledge and relationships and think critically and creatively to support problem-solving and ensure strong communication flow and follow-through.

This individual must efficiently manage a large volume and variety of contracts. Additionally, this individual will implement various systems and policies needed to scale the Legal department to better serve continued growth and value creation at the company.  This position has high visibility across the organization and requires a pro-active, positive, and professional approach.

What you would be responsible for:

• Prepare, negotiate, and manage a wide variety of contracts related to the general business and Research and Development needs including Master Service Agreements and associated work orders, Consulting Agreements, CDAs, Material Transfer Agreements, Research Collaboration Agreements and potential pre-Clinical and Clinical Study-related Agreements.
• Provide training to relevant business units on contracts processes to ensure approvals and contract requirements are met.
• Format documents for finalization and execution including use of e-signature services.
• Coordinate with other departments (Finance, Procurement) to improve contract processes, suggest and implement new / more efficient processes as needed.
• Proactively guide stakeholders as to contractual rights and obligations
• Identify and assist with resolution of issues impacting completion of contracts.
• Maintain standardized forms and templates and assist in updating them.
• Implement various systems and policies needed to scale the Legal department

What experiences will you need:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience drafting, negotiating, and executing contracts in the healthcare industry.
• Hands-on experience independently drafting, negotiating, and managing a wide variety and volume of contracts.
• Self-motivated individual who has the capacity to build trust amongst colleagues and work as part of a team.
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment; good time-management and prioritization skills, be detail oriented, manage multiple contracts and projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to think creatively to find common ground in contract negotiations, to conduct research to evaluate applicable laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines.
• High level of responsiveness and exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; excellent customer service.
• Positive outlook, willingness to learn and contribute, commit to personal growth and a team-oriented attitude; the ability to adapt to new/evolving processes will be key.

What will set you apart:

• Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school.
• Experience working in a law firm or in-house legal department strongly preferred.

What it’s like to work at Cellarity

At Cellarity, we

• Push Boundaries: We create a legacy with breakthrough science in service of patients.
• Inject Energy: We build strengths from different perspectives and tell it like it is.
• Own it: We transcend our job descriptions and relentlessly follow through on our commitments.
• Go all out: We work quickly and with conviction.

Company Summary: Cellarity’s mission is to fundamentally redesign the way drugs are created for the sake of bringing new hope to patients.  By shifting the focus from a single target to the underlying cellular dysfunction, we unravel the complexity of disease biology and create medicines that were never before possible. The company has developed unique capabilities that link biology and chemistry with high dimensional -omic data from which we design medicines against the cellular signature of disease. The Cellarity platform allows us to uncover new biology in diseases even in the absence of known causal targets. The company has drug discovery programs underway in s