The Opportunity
As a member of the Legal Operations team, you will play a key role in contract negotiations and oversight of Relay Tx’s contract lifecycle management (CLM) system. You will be responsible for independently reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts, overseeing the contract approval process, leading contract data integrity initiatives, and implementing process improvements. You will report to the Director of Legal Operations.
Your Role
- Negotiate and process confidentiality agreements, statements of work, consulting agreements, master service agreements, and additional agreements typical of the drug discovery industry commensurate with your experience
- Manage daily intake and triage of contract review requests through CLM system
- Daily oversight of contract approval process and integration between CLM and purchase order systems
- Coordinate with Relay’s finance team to ensure smooth end-to-end process from contract initiation through invoicing
- Audit and maintain contract expiration and auto-renewal notifications through CLM system
- Analyze data within CLM system to identify areas of focus; determine and execute data cleanup initiatives
- Optimize CLM workflows and perform testing of new functionality prior to rollout
- Conduct training for both new and existing CLM system users
- Develop CLM metrics, reports, and dashboard views in collaboration with individual departments based on their specific needs
- Assist with template development, drafting and preparing forms, letters, and other legal documents
- Assist in training and enforcement of legal processes and policies
- Support the legal team with budget management and invoice processing
- Support and handle a variety of ad hoc projects within the team as they arise
Your Background
- Most importantly, you are recognized as having a high degree of emotional intelligence
- You have an unwavering commitment to personal and professional ethics and integrity
- You have comprehensive knowledge of the contract management function and bring at least 5 years of increasing responsibility in contract management
- You have the ability to move projects forward by seeking information and gaining support from stakeholders
- You have excellent written and oral communication skills
- You have strong organizational skills with a high degree of attention to detail
- You are data-driven and enjoy diving into data analysis
- You have a knack for learning new systems
- You enjoy collaborative problem-solving to streamline processes
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About Relay Therapeutics
Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process with the goal of bringing life-changing therapies to patients. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, we aim to effectively drug protein targets that have previously been intractable, with an initial focus on enhancing small molecule therapeutic discovery in targeted oncology. Our Dynamo platform integrates an array of leading-edge experimental and computational approaches to provide a differentiated understanding of protein structure and motion to drug these targets. We have built a world-class team of leading experts from each of these disciplines, and they are driven by a deep collaboration at every step of our drug discovery process.
Our team is equal parts fearless and relentless, with a shared passion for working collaboratively in intellectually stimulating environments. If you’re excited by the challenge of putting protein motion at the heart of drug discovery and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients, join us!
What We Do
Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, our approach combines unprecedented computational power with leading-edge experimental approaches across the fields of structural biology, biophysics, chemistry and biology. By applying these insights, we believe we have a differentiated approach to drug protein targets based on their motion, enabling us to select and advance unique product candidates that can be developed into novel therapies for patients.
Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our world-class team is equal parts bright and bold, with a shared passion for working in intellectually stimulating environments. If you're creative, collaborative and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients, join us!
