SRS Contracts Specialist

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters with offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

How You’ll Add Value:

The SRS Contracts Specialist is responsible for negotiating, structuring, and/or administrating contractual documents that establish business relationships with vendors, customers and/or partners. You’ll collaborate closely with Sales, Service, and Legal teams to develop agreements that align with business needs while reviewing contracts to ensure compliance with company policies, government specifications, and other applicable requirements. Through careful analysis and effective contract management, you’ll help mitigate risk and support timely, sound business decisions.

What You’ll Do:

• Review all contract documents to ensure compliance with organizational requirements.
• Understanding of contract language and common contract types (NDAs, MSAs)
• Support internal approvals and routing of contracts
• Serve as a liaison with outside purchasing departments
• Understanding of business and legal terminology
• Manage contract creation, execution and analysis
• Identify opportunities to improve contract process and implement changes
• Ensure that the contracts are in compliance with Company’ legal and compliance policies
• This role will facilitate expedient review and resolution of inconsistent interpretation of contractual provisions to help ensure business continuity, and to mitigate legal risk while complying with established guidelines and processes
• Draft, review, redline and negotiate a wide range of agreements, such as, non-disclosure, data privacy, MSA’s, and SOW’s
• Interface with internal stakeholders and external parties to gather specifications and terms necessary for contract drafting and negotiations
• Operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment with the ability to take initiative, resolve complex contract, demonstrate autonomy and exercise appropriate business judgment
• Solve new problems that arise, determine viable options and leverage appropriate key functional areas
• Prepares reports on the status of contracts for management
• Conducts special projects as assigned

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable are of concentration or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 4 years of related industry experience
• Background in Contract Management / business law
• Paralegal preferred
• Salesforce.com/ CRM experience preferred
• Attention to detail, superior organizational skills and ability to manage multiple deadline- driven projects
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally
• Proven track record of managing strategic commercial contracts
• Proven track record of negotiating terms with internal and external stakeholders
• Robust knowledge of critical legal and business terms, and contract structure and language
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Perform other duties as required

Your Working Conditions: 

• General office setting
• Employee may occasionally work in an area with potentially infectious materials
• Employee will be responsible for maintaining a clean work environment and enforcing and following Universal Precautions for bloodborne pathogens when working in an area considered to be potentially contaminated

Join us and help enable life‑changing discoveries by keeping critical life science systems running reliably—every day.

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Azenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

The posted pay range for this position is an estimate based on current market data and internal pay structure. Final compensation may vary above or below this range depending on factors such as experience, education (including licensure and certifications),  qualifications, performance, and geographic location, among other relevant business or organizational needs.