Contracts Manager - Digital & Tech Contracts
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 2, 2026. Roche scores A on the Alion truth index.
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The Position
Contracts Manager - Digital & Tech Contracts
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.
Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.
The Opportunity:
This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery Chapter, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Indirect Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Services, Digital & Technology, and Facilities. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.
As a Contracts Manager in Digital & Tech, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you can use your contract drafting and negotiation skills and general understanding of applicable laws, policies, and regulations, to deliver procurement contract management and advisory activities. Using your specialized knowledge and expertise in contracting and procurement, you will ensure effective and efficient service delivery that manages business, legal, and compliance risks to support internal stakeholders.
You will partner with procurement and business stakeholders, supporting their contracting needs by creating and providing tools, templates, playbooks, advice and counsel, and assistance with complex drafting and negotiating, enabling efficient and compliant contracting.
Working closely with other team members, including the wider contracting capability teams, you will gather feedback and input to meet reporting requirements, and to continuously develop, validate, enhance and deploy services, tools, templates, playbooks, processes, and service levels.
Your key responsibilities include:
Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.
Using independent judgment, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, such as:
- Contracting knowledge and subject matter specialist providing specialist input, advice, assistance, and know-how with complex IT and/or technical contract drafting and negotiating activities.
- Contract drafter and negotiator using functional, technical, and/or operational expertise, and working with Procurement Delivery professionals, drafting and negotiating complex IT and/or technical contracts that require contracting functional, technical and/or operational expertise beyond provided templates and playbooks.
- Contracts "Best Practices" developer and advocate contributing to the development, improvement, and delivery of templates, playbooks, and training to procurement, the business, and other stakeholders.
- You will work within the broader team and GP networks and squads to determine the other various roles needed to deliver project and foundational work.
Who you are:
- You hold a university degree, with a business or legal degree preferable and have 5+ years relevant procurement contracting experience or 3+ years for those with legal credentials.
- You possess expertise in the legal and compliance fields, with broad delegated authority.
- You have a proven experience with managing and negotiating IT specific contracts (all levels of complexities).
- You demonstrate understanding and ability to work with tax, insurance, import/export, global privacy and compliance matters.
- You possess the ability to communicate difficult or higher complexity concepts and effectively negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.
Mindsetand Behaviors
- You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.
- You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.
- You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, focusing on continuous learning and improvement.
- You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.
- You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.
Relocation benefits are not available for this position.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Mississauga is 105,560.00 and 138,547.50 of hiring range. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors as determined by the company.We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants for this role.
This posting is for an existing vacancy at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.