Senior Contract Facilitator, International

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**Introduction**

Bristol Myers Squibb is looking for an experienced sourcing and contracting professional to join its Enterprise Contract Facilitation (**ECF**) team. Bristol Myers Squibb is a global BioPharma company firmly focused on its mission to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. We focus on the needs of health care professionals, patients, employees, shareholders and our communities, giving maximum priority to developing innovative medicines, accelerating pipeline development, delivering solid growth, continuing to manage costs, and adhering to high standards of business conduct and ethics. We are looking for an experienced sourcing and contracting professional who can be successful within our fast-paced, adaptive and focused culture.

**Description**

The Senior Contract Facilitator, International, will be part of a team that delivers an industry-leading contracting capability across the functions through efficient contract review, issue identification and analysis, redlining, negotiation and management of escalations to the legal department. This individual will collaborate across multiple international markets (EMEA, APAC & Canada) with cross-functional stakeholders, including Contract Legal Support Team (CLS) and International Legal, and other important cross-functional teams. The individual must have excellent communication skills and must work quickly, diligently, independently and efficiently. The individual in this role must also be able to resolve complex negotiation issues in a timely manner and push a deal through to execution. This individual must be able to build strong relationships of mutual trust and accountability with the internal business clients, contracting teams and legal department. This position will report to the Director, Enterprise Contracting Facilitation, EMEA/APAC & Canada.

The key competencies for this role include:

- Procurement and Contracting Fundamentals
- Redlining & Negotiation of Contracts
- People Management
- Project and Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning & Organization
- Future Oriented Growth Mindset
- Change Management & Communications
- Business Process & Performance Management
- Strong Mission & Values Alignment
- Company & Industry Expertise
- Global and International contracting expertise
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking

**Key Responsibilities**
- Train, lead, and perform quality control within a team of international Contract Facilitators.
- Experienced in intake, template selection,, negotiation, execution, and storage.
- Create training materials in collaboration with International Legal, leveraging a deep knowledge of contract terms and conditions and negotiation best practices, and BMS Standard Operating Procedures.
- Confidently facilitate, including drafting, negotiating and redlining, highly complex international contract types in collaboration with internal stakeholders and CLS as required by BMS SOPs and escalation protocols.
- Coordinate with functions and stakeholders across BMS to ensure timely, compliant, and effective facilitation of contracts.
- Collaborate closely with international and local legal teams and other key market stakeholders for reviews and escalations.
- Maintain awareness of pre-contracting steps, including underlying BMS policies and procedures related to the contracts and the contracted activities within scope.
- Act as the first escalation point on substantive contracting related questions.
- Appropriately document systems and processes, including collaborating with CLS and International Legal Teams to ensure relevant tools (such as playbooks) and contract templates are up to date.
- Make recommendations for continuous improvement with standardization, process simplification, and automation to elevate the customer experience.
- Grow and develop an evolving customer focused organization internally and externally.
- Assess and analyse data to report SLA, KPIs, and other team performance metrics to support execution of long-term business plans and growth and share with Pod Leads to drive business decisions.

**Qualifications & Experience**
- Bachelor's degree required: LLB, paralegal certification or other relevant formal legal contracts experience preferred.
- Direct experience in redlining, contract language and negotiation of contract terms.
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