Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM ) Product Line Lead

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Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Product Line Lead

We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Were at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. Join our team and play a critical role in a multi-year complex global transformation program serving as the primary business-facing product lead across internal stakeholders the selected systems implementation partner and the software provider.

Responsibilities

• Create and communicate a robust vision strategy and multi-year roadmap to evolve the CLM product line that is aligned to business priorities and enterprise technology standards.
• Provide leadership across 3 products in the CLM product line across its full lifecycle planning through delivery adoption optimization and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across GSF and IT delivery teams to contribute to overall company priorities.
• Establish and track product KPIs and success metrics to ensure measurable business value user experience and operational efficiency.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders (Legal Technology Procurement Compliance etc.) and IT delivery teams.
• Oversee a team of analysts translating business objectives into clear product requirements user stories and prioritized backlogs.
• Facilitate trade-off discussions across scope cost risk and timing to drive informed decisions and outcomes.
• Proactively identify opportunities to standardize streamline and automate contracting processes across the enterprise.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive business and IT leaders influencing decisions and guiding outcomes across complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Build grow and support a team of Product Managers through hiring coaching mentoring and providing feedback.
• Lead and drive CLM implementations releases and enhancements using strong PMO delivery and risk management practices.
• Ensure delivery governance documentation and adherence to enterprise SDLC security and compliance standards.
• Coordinate change management and stakeholder communications to support successful deployments and adoption.
• Act as a subject-matter expert in contract lifecycle and related business processes deeply understanding stakeholder needs pain points and value drivers.
• Provide hands-on product leadership and team building for CLM Product Team supporting configuration workflows templates clauses metadata and integrations.
• Partner with architecture integration security and data teams to ensure scalable and compliant solutions.
• Ensure technical decisions support long-term platform sustainability performance and extensibility.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors degree
• 10 years of experience in product management product ownership or solution leadership roles preferably in enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Enterprise leadership skills including business savviness strategic planning execution excellence change catalyst Emotional Intelligence networking and partnerships.
• Trusted advisor to business leaders with a track record focusing on data-driven user-focused outcomes.
• Strong PMO and delivery leadership skills including managing complex multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering enterprise-scale solutions (CLM solutions strongly preferred).
• Proven ability to set product vision define roadmaps and deliver measurable business value.
• Experience leading and mentoring technical analysts or delivery teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management communication and executive presence to support delivery excellence to business partners.
• Experience partnering with Legal Procurement Compliance or similar organizations.
• Experience in organizational change management (transformation) and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes.

Preferred

• Masters degree in science or technology discipline
• 15 years of experience in product management product ownership or solution leadership roles preferably in enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Proven ability to scale solutions beyond initial implementations to enterprise adoption.
• Product management certifications or Agile/Scrum credentials.
• Deep understanding of CLM platforms including configuration workflows clause libraries approvals reporting and integrations.
• One or more of the following certifications:
• DocuSign CLM Administrator
• DocuSign CLM Workflow Developer
• DocuSign CLM Implementation Consultant
• DocuSign CLM Technical Consultant

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