Indirect Contracting Team Leader (f/m/d) Pharmaceutical Diagnostics

In this role you lead the end-to-end management of indirect contracting for PDx International, guiding a team of contract specialists to ensure compliant distributor, wholesaler, and sales representative contracts. You drive governance, lean processes, and risk-based remediation across the contract lifecycle in a cross-functional setting. You report to governance and compliance boundaries while transforming the process to be standardized, transparent, and auditable. This is a hybrid/remote or onsite opportunity in Europe with significant cross-country collaboration.

• remote or hybrid work option
• competitive salary and benefits
• equal opportunity employer
• career opportunities in a global organization
• supportive culture with emphasis on collaboration and growth

• Lead end-to-end contract lifecycle management for distributor, wholesaler, and sales representative contracts
• Maintain contract coverage, renewal timelines, status, and a comprehensive repository; ensure audit readiness
• Identify and remediate contracts with expired or missing coverage; prioritize risks
• Collaborate with Commercial, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders on due diligence and approvals
• Enforce templates, due diligence, and regulatory assessments; escalate material risks
• Provide governance reporting, workload prioritization, and process improvement across the team
• Coach and develop contract specialists; set priorities and ensure high-quality execution
• Define roles, responsibilities, and governance routines; support internal investigations and audits
• Drive standard work, lean transformation, and adoption of CLM technologies
• Monitor KPIs, dashboards, and performance to drive transparency and remediation progress
• Coordinate cross-functional communications to align contracting priorities and risk management

• Significant experience in contract drafting and management or related fields, preferably healthcare or regulated industries
• Experience managing distributor networks and cross-border contracting with governance and audits
• Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management, compliance, risk management, and internal controls
• Proven ability to lead a team and drive accountability and operational execution
• Experience with process transformation, lean initiatives, and continuous improvement
• Strong analytical skills to define KPIs and translate data into actions
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills for cross-functional alignment
• Attention to detail, organizational discipline, and audit readiness
• Ability to operate with autonomy and manage competing priorities across countries
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions and cultures in global/regional settings
• Change management experience to sustain new processes and behavioral adoption
• Lean/project management/process excellence experience preferred
• Experience with contract workflows and tools (e.g., Salesforce) is advantageous
• Fluent English; other languages a plus

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• contract lifecycle management
• lean/continuous improvement
• process transformation