Global Expert Contracting & Partner Management

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As the Global Expert Contracting & Partner Management, you will set, govern, and continuously elevate global standards, templates, and best practices for project delivery methods, contracting strategies, and partner management across our capital investment portfolio. Joining our Global Capital Investment team in Basel, you will act as a trusted advisor to project teams and key stakeholders, translating strategy into fit-for-purpose commercial solutions. In this high-impact role, you will build strategic supplier relationships, mitigate contractual risks, and drive capability building across our international sites network.

• Establish global contracting standards: Define, govern, and continuously improve global contracting frameworks, tools, templates, and governance standards across the global sites network.
• Shape delivery and contracting strategies: Advise project teams and facilitate workshops to select fit-for-purpose project delivery models (e.g., DBB, EPC, EPCM, IPD) and commercial risk-allocation frameworks tailored to project complexity and market conditions.
• Mitigate contractual and commercial risks: Participate in independent project reviews to identify, assess, and manage commercial risks, scope changes, claims, and disputes across the complete project lifecycle.
• Lead partner and supplier relationship management: Partner with Global Procurement to drive collaborative management of engineering and construction partners, evaluating supplier performance and leveraging market capacity intelligence.
• Build organizational capability: Design and deliver technical training, playbooks, and communities of practice across Engineering and Procurement to systematically capture and share lessons learned globally.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Project Managers, Project Controls, Legal, Finance, and Procurement to ensure integrated decision-making and leverage market trends for strategic advantage.

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.