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Contract Management within the Johnson & Johnson MedTech-Electrophysiology Commercial Operations organization is recruiting for a Contract Manager, Learned Intermediary to be located in Irvine, CA

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https: //www.jnj.com/.

The Contract Manager, Learned Intermediary will be part of the Electrophysiology (EP) Commercial Contract Management organization, reporting to the Senior Manager, Contract Management / Learned Intermediary, and responsible for driving flawless implementation of contracts and pricing strategies throughout the contract continuum from developing paper through contract load and maintenance. These responsibilities include leading customer contract negotiations, coordinating the overall workflow of the contracting process, partnering with Marketing, Legal, Sales and Commercial Operations to ensure a high level of service, high quality products and efficient processes. This individual is responsible for leading and developing various contract templates to support the business and CPC approved Contract Strategies and will support terms and conditions redlines for commercial contracts. This role is the defined and proficient specialist for handling redlines including customer negotiation in close partnership with Offer Development, Account Management and the Field Sales Organization. They partner closely across the Learned Intermediary team, Electrophysiology Contract Management and Commercial Programs Legal Group (CPLG), the broader JJMT contracting community, HCC, and internal business partners, including senior management, in finding opportunities, process improvements and supporting critical company initiatives to improve turnaround time processes and workflows. Responsibilities include coordination of terms and conditions options and changes, identifying potential gaps, ensuring contracts are aligned to strategy, customer negotiations, sharing preferred practices, and recommending solutions to improve customer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Execution strategies for approved offers, product launches, new pricing programs to include development of contract templates documents and Contract Setup templates in Contract Systems & Process and Workflow
• Drives contract negotiation, execution, and management process by leading and overseeing the overall workflow to negotiate, execute, and maintain contracts. Provide direction on drafting complex contracts and serve as the subject matter expert for redline resolution
• Proactively identifies areas of disconnect / backup and devise solutions within Contract Management, ensuring best practice sharing / skill development across the contracting team while ensuring objectives of the business unit are met Develop and refine training materials and operating processes
• Identify, develop and retain talent, while developing overall contracting and negotiation capabilities and bench strength for the organization
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration with internal partners, consistent with company mission and values, to ensure that actions taken reflect terms of contracts and agreements. Provide regular mentorship and training to business partners, to ensure they understand contractual requirements as well as general legal and compliance environment.
• Develop and maintain positive business partner relationships with Legal, HCC, Deal Desk, Contract Strategy & Field partners
• Proactively support the design and implementation of systems, processes and controls to efficiently lead the contracting process to improve efficiency and compliance.
• Ensuring conformity to business needs, accurate risk allocation and compliance with Johnson & Johnson policies and procedures
• Facilitate internal partners to resolve sophisticated issues and assist in disputes (elevating complex legal and factual issues to the appropriate internal parties, e.g. Commercial Operations, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Corporate Risk Management, Health Care Compliance, Privacy, (CPLG).
• Ownership of assigned templates, clause library and related contracting tools
• Write and/or Maintain assigned SOPs and WIs

Qualifications:

Education:

• A minimum of a BS/BA is required. A degree in Business, Law, Finance, or Sales & Marketing is preferred.
• Juris Doctorate (J.D.) preferred.

Experience:

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in Contracting & Pricing or related business experience within J& J or medical devices.
• Previous MedTech capital equipment contracting and Business Associate Agreement experience preferred.
• Strong time management skills and ability to self-manage in a sophisticated, deadline driven environment is required.
• Excellent communication skills including giving presentations to executive leadership, building and maintaining relationships at all levels in the organization is required.
• Ability to work independently and complete all business projects according to agreed upon timelines is required.
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional environment and build support across a complex set of collaborators, including the ability to influence and align complex groups of collaborators towards overall business objectives is required.
• Experience with commercial organizations, including field sales teams, contracting, and financial profitability is preferred.
• Deep experience with the JJMT Contracting systems and support tools is preferred.
• Leadership Imperative Requirements- cultivates new insights; comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty, embraces collaboration and teaming, proactively senses and responds to problems and opportunities, results and performance driven, possesses big picture orientation- able to operate in two “worlds” simultaneously by looking both deep and broad.
• Strong analytical skills and experience in Process Excellence tools is preferred.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/ performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.

• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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