Job Overview:
The Intern will support departmental operations and project-based initiatives. This role offers hands-on experience in a corporate environment, contributing to both strategic and administrative functions while gaining exposure to cross-functional collaboration and business processes.
- Contract negotiation: Commercial negotiations with suppliers, working cross-functionally with Legal and business stakeholders to secure competitive pricing, appropriate commercial terms, service commitments and risk allocation.
- RFP / RFx management: Develop and support competitive sourcing events, including requirements and evaluation criteria, bid analysis, supplier negotiations, recommendations and award decisions.
- MSA / SLA development: Support the development, negotiation and ongoing management of MSAs, SOWs and SLAs, ensuring clear scope, pricing, KPIs, service levels, governance, escalation routes and performance obligations.
- QBRs and supplier governance: Establish and support structured QBRs with strategic suppliers, using spend, commercial, operational, quality and bid-performance data to review performance, agree corrective actions and identify continuous-improvement and value opportunities.
- Supplier performance and value: Track contractual commitments, savings and supplier performance against agreed KPIs, ensuring actions and benefits are documented and followed through.
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What We Do
Fortrea (Nasdaq: FTRE) is a leading global provider of clinical development and patient access solutions to the life sciences industry. We partner with emerging and large biopharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic companies to drive healthcare innovation that accelerates life changing therapies to patients in need. Fortrea provides phase I-IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, differentiated technology-enabled trial solutions and post-approval services. Fortrea’s solutions leverage three decades of experience spanning more than 20 therapeutic areas, a passion for scientific rigor, exceptional insights and a strong investigator site network. Our talented and diverse team working in more than 90 countries is scaled to deliver focused and agile solutions to customers globally. Learn more about how Fortrea is becoming a transformative force from pipeline to patient at Fortrea.com.
