Commercial Affairs Director (12 month FTC)

The Commercial Affairs Director is responsible for overseeing our commercial operations, ensuring legal compliance, fostering relationships, and contributing to strategic planning and business development.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract, with hybrid working arrangements, reporting to our VP, Group Commercial Affairs. Occasional international travel may be required.

• →Business partnering with one of the Inizio Business Units (BU).
• →Understand key operational and financial drivers of allocated BU.
• →Build client relationships and understand client requirements.
• →Build relationships across the Inizio business and ensure all stakeholders are kept up to date.
• →Manage the process of MSA negotiations, lead discussions as required, working with the business and legal teams to ensure signatures are in place in a timely manner.
• →Ensure the business is aware of key terms agreed within an MSA, providing a summary and training as required.
• →Work with legal and Contracts Coordinator to ensure all client MSAs / SOWs and data points are loaded into the HighQ system.
• →Work closely with finance teams to ensure pricing within MSAs is kept up-to-date and reflects business needs/practice.
• →Manage team of Contract Analysts ensuring SOWs meet business requirements, quality standards, and are executed on time.
• →Responsible for SOW accuracy and consistency.
• →Responsible for Contract Analyst's development, providing regular feedback and support.
• →Manage pricing council submissions through the Internal pricing approval process liaising closely with BU CFO.
• →Lead Irish contract signatory process for given BU (as and when finance systems are set-up).

• Keen eye for detail.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems, analyse information, and achieve quality standards.
• Flexible and able to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Minimum of a bachelor's level degree, or relevant experience.
• Previous experience building & leading a global Commercial function, ideally in a professional services or pharmaceutical organisation.

We help our clients navigate their clinical development and commercialization journey by connecting the best scientific knowledge, market intelligence, actionable data, technology, communication, and creative execution.

With a global presence and multiple career paths, the career possibilities are expanding at Inizio. We're a growing global team of 11,700 - a $1.5bn revenue business working with the world's leading health and life sciences businesses, and we have exciting growth plans. Whoever and wherever you are, we'll empower you with the autonomy you need to experiment, learn, and grow. We'll make sure that you feel valued, supported and, of course, because we're helping our clients to transform healthcare and improve millions of lives you can feel pride in your work at Inizio.

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

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