Director, Contracts Management and Compliance
Seaport Therapeutics (“Seaport”) is seeking a Director, Contracts Management. The Contracts Manager will be responsible for working closely with Seaport’s colleagues across the organization, external partners, and collaborators to manage the review, drafting, negotiation, and processing of a wide variety of contracts in support of Seaport’s research and clinical activities. Typical contracts include consultant agreements, master services agreements, software license agreements, confidentiality disclosure agreements, material transfer agreements, and the like. The Contracts Manager will serve as the primary point of contact for all contractual matters and be responsible for the development of better processes for contract review and administration, including implementation, maintenance, and training on Seaport’s contract lifecycle management platform.
Seaport Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing the development of novel neuropsychiatric medicines in areas of high unmet patient needs. The Company has a proven strategy of advancing clinically validated mechanisms previously held back by limitations that are overcome with its proprietary Glyph technology platform. All the therapeutic candidates in its pipeline of first and best-in-class medicines are based on the Glyph platform, which is uniquely designed to enable oral bioavailability, bypass first-pass metabolism and reduce liver enzyme elevations or hepatotoxicity and other side effects. Seaport is led by an experienced team that invented and advanced important neuropsychiatric medicines and are guided by an extensive network of renowned scientists, clinicians and key opinion leaders. For more information, please visit www.seaporttx.com.
Responsibilities:
- Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of contracts and ensures adherence to company policies
- Coordinate with internal legal counsel and business units for acceptance of any non-standard agreement terms where necessary
- Coordinate and track a large volume of contracts and provides advice and guidance regarding contract requests
- Organize and analyze information and cross-checks and validates information
- Prepare correspondence, check and edit legal forms and documents for accuracy
- Gather, assemble and analyze information from a variety of sources to prepare and format contracts for legal review
- Implement and maintain contract life cycle management platform and electronic board management platform
- Maintain electronic and physical filing systems for contracts
- Train colleagues on a wide variety of compliance and contracting processes
- Performs project administration responsibilities as directed
Qualifications
- JD with 6 years experience or bachelor’s degree and minimum of 10 years' corporate or contracts paralegal experience. Equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable job experience may be considered.
- Thorough knowledge of legal principles and practice, legal research techniques and legal and contract terminology preferred. Specific experience in contract review and administration is required
- Extensive knowledge and experience in reviewing and assisting with the negotiation, drafting, and preparation of a wide variety of contracts, related documents and correspondence
- Strong analytical, research and critical thinking skills with the ability to comprehend difficult instructions and maintain written records
- Must work quickly, efficiently and calmly in a high-volume, high-demand environment
- Discreet in handling sensitive and confidential information
- Excellent professional ethics, integrity and judgment
- Ability to work accurately, to follow instructions precisely and to handle multiple priorities efficiently and effectively
- Self-motivation with excellent interpersonal and communications skills, including tact, diplomacy and flexibility
- Ability to function independently as well as have effective interactions with team members
- Knowledge of or experience in the Pharmaceutical or Biotech industry highly desired
