Commercial Contracts, Manager

Avania•,

9d•$90,000 - $11,000

About The Position

Avania is hiring a Commercial Contracts Manager to join their Legal team. This high-visibility, high-impact role focuses on managing, leading, drafting, negotiating, and closing various commercial contracts. The ideal candidate will have experience in a regulated industry and possess the ability to find practical solutions to business questions, ensuring the protection of Avania’s legal interests in alignment with the company's business strategy.

Requirements

Experience in a regulated industry.
Ability to look for and find practical solutions to important business questions.
Experience managing, leading, drafting, negotiating and closing various commercial contracts (such as global sponsor/sales contracts, change orders, vendor contracts, confidentiality agreements, site agreements, and other Avania contracts).
Understanding of how to protect legal interests in alignment with business strategy.

Responsibilities

Drive, negotiate, review, and process contracts in a commercially reasonable manner that protects Avania’s fundamental interests and in a manner consistent with company rules, practices, and policies. Execute agreements as appropriate under applicable business controls.
Lead/produce/review/revise and manage negotiations for Client Specific Contracts and Supplier Contracts based on Avania or counterparty template, available guidelines and instructions from the legal team.
Develop and ongoing maintenance of templates, negotiation guidelines and tools to lead the management of the contract processes, e.g. template CDA, MSA, CTA, QA as directed by the Sr Manager.
Monitor expiration dates of commercial agreements, and work with management to determine appropriate follow up steps.
Work closely with appropriate Business Development staff to keep them informed of progress of agreements.
Provide support in client contract negotiations for BAP and Ops teams, including group negotiation calls and direct client communication.
Collaborate with Avania operational staff to obtain all information required for the production or review of contracts, including scopes of work, budgets, and payment schedules.
Identify potential obstacles in the contracting process promptly and work internally to minimize delays and to facilitate the prompt conclusion of contractual negotiations.
Maintain, provide administrative support, create reports and perform other activities with respect to our contract management system (CMS).
Set-up and improve the internal review/revision/sign-off process on contracts prior to forwarding to external parties.
Provide necessary administrative and operational support to bring and maintain the legal in-housekeeping at diligence-able level with respect to all commercial contracts.
Drive, promote and maintain a data protection culture; under Sr Manager's supervision, liaise with DPO, IT and other relevant stakeholders in an effort to ensure Avania complies with data protection laws and practices in taking into account GDPR, Australian Privacy Act, US HIPAA and (international) data transfers.
Support the preparation of internal training materials and presentations.