Senior Contracts Manager

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Paralegal certification or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required with 12 years of professional experience.
• Minimum of 8 years or recent experience in the pharmaceutical industry providing direct legal support.
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of vendor-facing commercial agreements.
• Experience using and navigating centralized contract lifecycle management (CLM) system, including intake, workflow routing, document management, and reporting functionality.
• Strong organizational skills demonstrated across a range of supplier and commercial contexts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, project coordination, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to think strategically when negotiating complex financial and business-critical contractual terms, assess risk in real time, and mitigate potential liabilities to the company.
• Ability to rapidly establish credibility and work collaboratively across various Commercial Legal contexts with a broad range of individuals.
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy.

Desired:

• Completion of an ABA-approved paralegal certificate program preferred, demonstrating formal legal training and experience supporting commercial transactions in a regulated environment.
• Prior experience overseeing, administering, or reviewing commercial materials and communication for internal and external use in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and industry standards.
• Experience using Ironclad or a similar CLM system, with a working understanding of workflow design, system functionality, and end-to-end contract lifecycle management.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Physical Activities: On a continuous basis, sit at desk for a long period of time; intermittently answer telephone and write or use a keyboard to communicate through written means. Some walking and lifting up to 25 lbs. may be required. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and responsibilities.

Travel:

You may be required to travel for quarterly on-site meetings and up to an additional 5% of your time.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Crinetics is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and/or expression), pregnancy, race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, religion or similar philosophical beliefs, disability, marital and civil union status, age, genetic information, veteran status or any personal attribute or characteristic that is protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is: $125,000 - $156,000.

In addition to your base pay, our total rewards program consists of a discretionary annual target bonus, stock options, ESPP, and 401k match. We also provide top-notch health insurance plans for employees (and their families) to include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and a winter company shutdown.