Lead Analyst, Contract Management (Multiple Openings)

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Raritan
Posted on: April 20, 2024

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson HCS Inc., a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Lead Analyst, Contract Management to join its Commercial Contract Management team within our Commercial Excellence organization. This position can be based in one of the following J&J locations: Raritan, NJ; Raynham, MA; West Chester, PA; Warsaw, IN; Cincinnati, OH; Irvine, CA. At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at Various Commercial Excellence teams work with customer facing teams to put together the most appropriate offering (products, pricing, solutions and T&Cs) for the customer while still supporting the objectives and strategies. The Lead Analyst, Contract Management will be part of the Commercial Contract Management organization, reporting to the Senior Manager, Contract Management, responsible for driving flawless implementation of contracts and pricing strategies throughout the contract continuum from developing paper through contract load and maintenance and providing effective and efficient contract review and negotiation for commercial contracts. The Lead Analyst will be the expert on handling RFP/RFI submissions, contract authoring, contract implementation, and contract maintenance. These responsibilities include coordinating the contract implementation workflow, identifying potential gaps, recommending solutions, and sharing best practices. The Lead Analyst is also responsible for review and redlines of contract terms and conditions in close coordination with Legal, Deal Desk, Finance, and the Field Sales Organization. This role works in close collaboration with the Field Sales Organization, Account Management, Contract Strategy, Deal Desk, Finance, Marketing and other partners such as Legal, Health Care Compliance, Government Compliance, Privacy, Supply Chain, IT, etc. to ensure the most effective offering is made to the customer and that this offer can then be efficiently administered through the contracting system. Thus, the contract management space effectively must bring together people, process, system and policy to ensure the written word in the contract can be managed and administered throughout our contracting and order management systems. Responsibilities include, at the direction of the Senior Manager, Contract Management, coordination of terms and conditions options and changes, identifying potential gaps, ensuring contracts are aligned to strategy, customer negotiations, sharing preferred practices, and recommending solutions to improve customer experience. Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with MT Strategic Customer Group Account Management and Deal Desk team members to proactively support and influence contracting needs for our top customer segment.
• At the direction of management, direct and manage commercial contract terms and conditions negotiation.
• Support and help prioritize and manage workload qeue.
• Draft, review, and negotiate terms and conditions in commercial contract documents, and participate in customer calls as necessary.
• Work with the Senior Manager, Contact Management to facilitate internal contract approval and stakeholder negotiation to resolve complex issues and assist in disputes (e.g., escalating complex legal and factual issues to the appropriate internal parties, e.g., Commercial Operations, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Corporate Risk Management, Health Care Compliance, Privacy, Commercial Programs Legal Group (CPLG)).
• Develop and maintain positive business partnering relationships with Legal, Offer Development, Health Care Compliance and Field Sales Organization.
• Proactively support the design and implementation of systems, processes, and controls to track and manage the contracting process to enhance efficiency and compliance.
• When assigned, facilitate effective communication and collaboration with internal partners, consistent with company mission and values, to ensure that actions taken reflect terms of contracts and agreements. Provide regular mentorship and training to Contract Management team members and to business partners to ensure they understand contractual requirements as well as the general legal and compliance environment.
• Ensuring conformity to business needs, accurate risk allocation, and compliance with Johnson & Johnson policies and procedures.
• Partner with Deal Desk and Field to resolve any discrepancy or gaps in pricing approvals.
• Implementation of price changes resulting from contract maintenance activity to include scheduled price increases stipulated in the contract and compliance price adjustments for noncompliant accounts.
• Generate contract price files, integrated delivery network (IDN) roster maintenance on contracts, creation of member-add letters, and draft amendments.
• Develop and maintain contract templates in contracting systems in support of approved MT contract pricing strategies.
• Write and/or maintain assigned standard operating procedures and work instructions and help monitor adherence for related processes.
• Provide timely response to internal and external audit requests.
• Help update and maintain Contract Management SharePoint drives.
• Other projects or assignments as directed by Management.

Keywords: Disability Solutions, New Brunswick , Lead Analyst, Contract Management (Multiple Openings), Executive , Raritan, New Jersey