Senior Manager, Contract Strategy & Development

Location: Hybrid in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Periodic travel is required for customer negotiations, cross-functional meetings, and industry conferences. Permanent U.S. work authorization is required; U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.

Annual base salary: $124,400–$207,400, plus a 17.5% bonus target and eligibility for a share-based long-term incentive program.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and works to improve health outcomes through market access, pricing, reimbursement, evidence-based medicine, and health economic modeling.

What you will do

• Develop and evaluate product-, portfolio-, and channel-level contract strategies for GPO, IDN, hospital, alternate-site, trade, and retail customers.
• Draft, negotiate, amend, and support execution of customer agreements while aligning contract language with strategic, legal, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Analyze customer terms, redlines, contract performance, behavior, financial impact, and portfolio scenarios.
• Translate product, pricing, and customer strategies into executable contracting programs, pricing approaches, templates, and counter-proposals.
• Partner with Contract Management, Rebate Operations, Account Management, Legal, Pricing & Commercial Operations, Government Pricing, Trade, Sales, Digital, and Portfolio teams.
• Improve contracting processes, analytical standards, templates, clauses, and contracting tools, including enhanced AI capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 6+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with more than 5+ years, or a Ph.D. with 1+ years of experience.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, institutional contracting, contract development or drafting, market access, or a related field.
• Experience working with GPOs, IDNs, hospitals, alternate sites of care, trade, and retail customers.
• Experience contributing to negotiations, portfolio initiatives, or pricing programs.
• Experience with contract drafting, redlining, or template development.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work with complex datasets and tools such as Excel or Tableau.

Nice to have

• Paralegal degree or certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with periodic travel.
• 401(k) plan with hirify.global matching contributions and an additional retirement savings contribution.
• Paid vacation, holidays, personal days, caregiver/parental leave, and medical leave.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Participation in the Global Performance Plan and eligibility for a share-based long-term incentive program.