Contracts Specialist – Catalent

Job Description

Contracts Specialist

This role serves as a strategic business partner to our Business Development and Legal organizations. The Contracts Specialist will support the development and execution of contracts with new and existing customers ensuring Catalent has strong, profitable contracts with business terms that align with guidelines and represent a win-win for Catalent and our customers. This role requires an individual who understands and has significant experience in contracting and negotiating. Responsibilities include overseeing the preparation of contractual documents, negotiating and administering customer contracts in accordance with company policies and legal requirements, interacting with internal and external legal counsel in support of routine legal operations, maintaining an awareness of company business objectives and priorities and reflect those in customer business negotiations, analyzing and mitigating risk, maintaining accurate records.

Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference. Your expertise, coupled with our advanced technologies and collaboration with innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives.

The Role
• Negotiate contracts in partnership with Business Development, Legal and other functional leads to achieve timely deal closure and growth expectations.
• Mitigates risk through understanding of proposed terms and conditions and develops recommendations for contract language to meet business needs.
• Identify and communicate risk areas throughout the negotiation contract lifecycle and the renewal process. Escalate issues appropriately.
• Drive compliance with Legal, organizational and departmental policies and procedures with adherence to processes and business rules.
• Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.
• Experience leading contract negotiations and drafting contracts.
• Demonstrated knowledge of contract terms and terminology enabling a comprehensive review and commentary of business contracts.
• Demonstrates leadership capabilities.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships and interact with individuals at all levels including senior management.
• Customer oriented with collaborative communication and problem-solving skills. Ability to be clear and persuasive, orally and in writing.
• Organized and detail orientated with ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Proficiency with the latest Office365 products, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and related electronic tools for editing, documenting, tracking and communicating.

The Candidate
• BS/BA required.
• Minimum 5+ years of contracting and negotiating experience, with relevant experience in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or Consumer Health industries.
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment with high levels of ambiguity
• Ability to deal with high levels of complexity, focusing on outcomes.
• Continuous improvement mind-set and disposition is critical.

Catalent’s Standard Leadership Competencies
• Leads with Integrity and Respect
• Delivers Results
• Demonstrates Business Acumen
• Fosters Collaboration and Teamwork
• Champions Change
• Engages and Inspires
• Coaches and Develops

Position Benefits
• Catalent match employee donation to charities
• Medical, Dental, Vision and 401K are all offered from day one of employment
• 19 days of paid time off annually and eight paid holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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