Our Mission

Our passion for improving patients’ lives motivates us to apply our skills, experience and knowledge to advance medicine.

We achieve this through adaptable, innovative, high-quality solutions for our clients, delivered with integrity.

The Role

Reporting to the Vice President, Legal and Contracts, the Head of Contracts leads the Contracts Division within the Legal Department, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality, risk-balanced contractual support to Caidya and Simbec-Orion's internal and external stakeholders. The role is accountable for the development of contracting strategy, optimisation of contract management processes, team leadership and the continuous improvement of contracting capabilities, ensuring that contractual arrangements are legally compliant, commercially appropriate, operationally effective and aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.

Key internal relationships include Legal Department members, Heads of Department, the Senior Management Team, Operational Team Leads, Project Management, Business Development, Procurement, Finance,



Quality Assurance, and Compliance and Data Protection. Key external relationships include clients, investigator sites, service providers, contractors, consultants and external legal counsel.

Key Accountabilities

• Leads and manages the Contracts Division, including workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, succession planning and professional development of team members
• Allocates resources effectively to ensure the timely negotiation and execution of contracts whilst maintaining service level expectations
• Prepares, negotiates, reviews and oversees the execution of commercial agreements with clients, vendors, service providers, subcontractors, consultants and investigator sites
• Develops and implements contracting strategies that support business growth, operational efficiency and risk management objectives
• Provides pragmatic, risk-based legal and commercial advice

📌 Head of Contracts (España)
🏢 Simbec Orion
📍 España