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Cardiopulmonary Contract Liaison

Location: Spring House, Pennsylvania

About the Role

Contract Liaisons provide strategic guidance and partner with Discovery Sciences (DS) project owners to efficiently manage the end-to-end contracting agreement process while ensuring Healthcare Compliance requirements are met.

Full List of duties:

What You’ll Be Doing

• Enter purchase requestions for team.

• Manage changes orders Purchase Requisition (PR) changes for all DS requests

• Manage invoicing mismatch process and advise leaders on needed approvals, changes, and invoicing issues.

• Processes, modify, and update Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA) / non-disclosure agreement (NDA) requests

• Enter all Scope of Work (SOWs) for project requests into e-Marketplace or e-MC. These requests will be used to generate a contract / Purchase Order (PO) or a PO only, depending on project cost and risk assessment

• Determine all category designations for project requests. This is the most difficult component of the e- Marketplace process and often requires procurement interface

• Serve as the ‘project monitor’ for the project requestor

• Track requests on a regular basis and report on status to requestors

• Manage a ‘project tracker’ spreadsheet for each request and document activities (or lack thereof)

• Follow-up and serve as project expediter when a request gets stalled in R2P, Sourcing, Supplier contracting, or legal internally, or with the supplier externally

• Notify process step owners of changes / project timing criticality

• Process new supplier requests in ARAVO, and work with the supplier to get relevant banking information entered into the system

• Assist new HCP supplier complete submissions for HCP number, or National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI) number

• Manage and track the health care compliance component of all relevant contracts and POs / process Totality requests and track / monitor the request through the approval process

• Provide procurement, contracting and e-Marketplace training for the team

• Gather all information necessary from project leads, procurement, suppliers, etc to successfully process a contracting request

• Perform research on PO / Contract status for project owners, including information on payments and accruals required

• Manage ‘grey zone’ process for requests that don’t fit into traditional companies' procurement categories

Perform other Business Support Associate Duties for companies R&D, including Create the eMP Request

• Submit eMP Purchase Request

• Track and monitor progress of PR and PO Process

• Follow-up with Procurement or Business Requester as needed PO & Invoice Reconciliations

• Resolve mismatch discrepancies

• Ensure payments released and PO closure

• Assist user base and finance teams with mismatch management and training Process Optimization

• Provide process improvement feedback to Procurement

• Help Procurement prioritize Continuous Improvement initiatives Purchase Orders

• Process purchase requisitions and request purchase orders (expense & capital) with selected suppliers.

o Receive purchase information from R&D business partners

o Utilize the eMP purchasing system to submit and process PRs resulting in POs.

o Systems Compatibility issues. Trouble shoot and work directly with the business requester and/or Procurement on issues regarding commodity codes, suppliers on approved/preferred supplier lists but not showing up in eMP, reactivating suppliers that are active in ARAVO but not in eMP. Systems issues, training and guidance.

• Receive information from R&D business partners in order to submit PRs on their behalf

Examples of purchased goods or services may include: lab services, prototype components, sample raw materials, tools, catalog supplies, etc.

• Modify and manage purchase orders for the user base. This includes but are not limited to these activities: Check order status, modify quantities or due dates, receive and deliver products to team members, reassign PO owners, perform research, assist with error messages, cancel / close POs.

New Supplier Add Process

• Most supplier add requests are submitted through eMP. In certain circumstances, utilize ARAVO to create and update vendor information.

• Work with the requestor to complete the supplier add form for the preliminary required information to start the supplier add process.

• Enter the request to add a new supplier into the ARAVO database by adding the preliminary supplier information and instructions to the supplier contact to assist them with completing their required tasks.

• Follow the process through the ARAVO database to ensure that the supplier addition goes through smoothly and in a timely manner. This will then allow PRs to be created for the new supplier.

Customer Service and Training

• Proactively communicate with and provide customer service to company's requesters that KOCG is supporting.

• Ensure training and proficiency on all applicable company's Systems

• Provide detailed training for user community on PR entry, Invoice and PO management,

• Systems use, contracting, and other topics related to the procure-to-pay process. Compliance

• Ensure compliance with all applicable with Policies & Procedures

Additional Marketing Strategy Responsibilities:

• Prepare detailed plan supporting high-level plan

• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure they are clear on expectations/deliverables

• Maintaining project documentation in compliance with internal SOPs and applicable regulatory standards.

• Facilitating communication and information flow amongst S&O, TA and SLT team members and stakeholders.

• Assisting in the preparation of portfolio status reports and presentation materials for governance meetings.

• Managing document versioning, SharePoint sites, or other collaborative tools.

• Build and maintain strong collaborations within the TA (TA R&D BD liaison for biology, Clinical Development) and partnering functions (Regulatory, Global Development, Medical Affairs, Commercial).

• Liaise with administrators regarding logistics, interacts with members of the Clinical and Indication Teams, and other scientific and business related disciplines as needed

Required Qualifications

• 2–5 years' experience in procurement, purchasing, contracts, vendor management, or operations
• Hands-on experience with PRs, POs, invoices, and vendor coordination
• Experience using enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, or similar)
• Strong Excel and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple requests and meet deadlines
• Strong communication and follow-up skills
• Comfortable working on-site 5 days per week

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Healthcare, pharma, or life sciences experience
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P) background
• Vendor onboarding systems (e.g., ARAVO)
• Experience working in a regulated or compliance-driven environment

Who Will Succeed in This Role

• You are highly organized and detail-oriented
• You are comfortable following up and keeping processes moving
• You enjoy solving invoice and payment issues
• You can explain systems and processes clearly
• You thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment