Manager, Contract Administration

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Manager, Contract Administration

Are you ready to join a top-tier team and make a meaningful impact? At Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., we empower our employees to drive breakthrough discoveries and change the world. As a Manager in our Contract Administration team, you will play a crucial role in supporting our ambitious goals and outstanding performance standards. This outstanding opportunity will allow you to work closely with diverse teams, ensuring flawless contract management and administration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct responsibility for the daily operation of the Contract Administration team.
• Maintain contracts compliance with all departmental functional procedures, policies, and work instructions.
• Ensure Company and Government policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) stay current in the department Playbook.
• Effectively address partner concerns in a timely manner. Ensure resolution is detailed and clear.
• Supervise team, delegate tasks, foster positive collaboration within the Contract Admin team and with cross-functional partners.
• Measure, develop, support, and motivate personnel to attain or exceed established goals.
• Guide, train, and lead team to support Sales and Service with proposal drafting for various contracts.
• Monitor progress in critical metric performance and mitigate any critical metrics below target.
• Ensure all website registrations, portals, and System for Award Management (SAM) and other critical government-public websites are active/current.
• Tracking/maintaining compliance requirements for Environmental, Health and Safety, and Quality compliance for customers.
• Support Practical Process Improvement (PPI) methodology and participate in initiatives as required.
• Maintain a centralized database for reviewing and managing workflow of negotiations and final agreements.
• Function as back-up for the SSOC Sr. Manager and other team members as needed.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or legal field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum five (5) to seven (7) years’ experience in a combination of government and commercial contracting and contract negotiations.
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience managing 8-10 direct reports.
• Good judgment in balancing business and commercial needs and potential risks/exposures from customer requests. Excellent communication skills are both written and oral with a high degree of creativity and persuasion skills.
• Meticulous with a high degree of integrity, intensity, and involvement.
• Demonstrated ability to work well within tight schedules and under pressure, both independently and as part of a team. Strong people skills with a collaborative/integrative style of working to reach common goals and objectives.
• Must be flexible and receptive to change in the workplace and working with across all time zones in the US, and occasionally international time zones.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite.
• Demonstrate Thermo Fisher Scientific values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.
  
  

Join us and contribute to our mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer!