Legal Contracts Specialist

Are you a detail-oriented contract specialist with experience managing a variety of agreements in healthcare or related industries? Do you have a strong understanding of commercial contracts, research collaborations, and healthcare-specific agreements?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, Join the SOPHiA GENETICS Legal & Compliance team as a Contract Specialist and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule allowing 2 days PW home working, collaborating closely with colleagues in our Boston Fenway corporate office.This is not a remote role.

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission

Reporting to the VP, Legal Affairs you will manage and oversee a variety of contract types including master service agreements, business associate agreements, and material transfer agreements, primarily focused on healthcare and life sciences. You will play a key role in reviewing, negotiating, and ensuring compliance with industry-specific regulations to support our commercial and research collaborations in the North America region.

The value you add

• Manage and oversee the full lifecycle of various contract types including MSAs, BAAs, MTAs, and research collaboration agreements, ensuring compliance with healthcare industry standards and regulations.
• Collaborate closely with sales, legal, and compliance teams to support contract negotiations and approvals, providing frontline review and handling routine amendments to accelerate deal closures.
• Monitor contract performance metrics and maintain organized contract databases to ensure timely execution and renewal, facilitating clear communication of contract status to stakeholders.
• Use your knowledge of commercial law to provide drafting, negotiation and business counsel to support key commercial transactions, drive projects to completiont and help mitigate legal or business risk
• Where suitable, add knoweldge of healthcare law, technology IP or Data protection to further support or enhance legal processes

We know that every background is different, but to be best set for success we see you bringing:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in contract management, administration, or ownership.
• Direct working knowledge in reviewing, negotiating, and managing a variety of contracts including Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs), and research collaboration agreements.
• Direct experience healthcare-related industries such as Clinical Research, Medical Diagnostics, Biopharma, MedTech, or healthcare services.
• As a public organisation facing ongoing commercial growth, you will bring a success-orientated and solutions-focused mindset that embraces team collaborations, change, growth and inclusion.

Although there may be other additional skills that add value, we define these as the minimum criteria of experience needed to be successful in this role. Candidates without this core experience are unlikely to progress in this process.

You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

Business recognition and accolades include: 

• World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
• World's smartest companies (Top 50) 
• 100 Best Places to Work in Boston 
• Top 10 European Tech Startup
• Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
• Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:

US:

Outstanding Medical, Dental & Vision with 90% Employer Contribution

Company matched 401K at 4%

Company-paid short & long-term disability insurance

FSA commuter benefits

20 Days PTO, increasing to 25 with tenure; 5 Days Sick and 14 Public Holidays

Free EAP

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous 

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action.  We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

The Process 

We use the power of AI to help our partners make decisions. If you’re utilising AI in your search and application process, why not use some of these prompts, or

‘What impact can I expect to have on the world by working at SOPHiA GENETICS?’

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Apply now with your CV and any supporting information. 

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.

We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilise agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.

Starting Date: Q4 2025 - Date as discussed

Location: Boston, MA - Hybrid work schedule

Contract: Permanent