About This Role This role reports to the Head of Program & Resource Management, Portfolio Technologies (PROMPT) and works under the direction of the Head of R&D Standards, Governance and Contracting (SGC) to help support the Corporate Compliance Program and R&D Contracting.The successful candidate will triage incoming requests for the R&D contracts team and execute R&D contracts including vendor contracts, HCP consulting contracts, SRAs, MTAs etc. This role serves to define the processes with regards to contracts across the organization and serves as a point of escalation to troubleshoot contracts due to compliance, legal and financial issues as well as other cross-functional efforts. The role serves as a contracting SME, providing technical guidance and training to requesters,  collaborate with IT, Procurement, Legal, Finance and Compliance to meet requirements/statutes for all contracts.  The colleague will maintain the tracking system/performance metrics for processing of all R&D contracts, and create reports as needed for leadership.What You’ll Do Partner with Legal, Procurement, Compliance and Finance to ensure that all fair-practices, regulatory and compliance statutes are followed in the contracting processMaintain performance metric dashboards for processing of R&D contracts. Use data analytics to look for potential issues or improvement opportunities and to drive more automation across data and reporting.  Create reports for R&D leadership.Develop, maintain and train others to use internal Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool to manage contract requestsPartner with Head of R&D SGC to design and implement continuous improvement initiatives across the organizationAssist Head of R&D SGC with compliance monitoring activitiesAssists in oversight of a team of contract analysts’ assignments and performance
