Manager, Legal Contract Transformation

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Job Function:

Legal & Compliance

Job Sub Function:

Law Business Partners

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia, São Paulo, Brazil

Job Description:

Manager, GSINC Template Transformation

Scope: Global

Function: Global Legal Organization

Reports to: Director, GSINC Template Transformation

We are searching for top talent for the Manager, GSINC Legal Template Transformation role within the Global Simplification and Innovation in Contracting program, GSINC.

Do you seek big, complex, and ambiguous challenges? Are you passionate about transforming enterprise contracting through simplified processes, modern technology, intelligent data, and responsible AI? Do you want to help build a capability that improves how Johnson & Johnson works with its employees, suppliers, customers, healthcare professionals, research and other partners?

GSINC is building an integrated, AI-enabled contracting capability developed to make contracting faster, simpler, more consistent, and more valuable to the enterprise. The program brings together process, policy, templates, technology, data, and intelligence to establish a scalable contracting foundation across Johnson & Johnson.

Position Summary

This role drives and implements the transformed global contracting. The role translates approved legal strategy and risk parameters into scalable, user-centered content.

Collaborating with Legal, SMEs, contracting teams, business teams, and other functions, the Manager drives transformation activities from drafting and supporting approvals through localization, deployment, adoption, and improvement. This is an individual contributor role.

Key Responsibilities

Assess, consolidate, simplify, draft, validate and approve templates, clauses, fallback positions, playbooks, exhibits, and guidance.

Develop plain-language, user-centered content that maintains critical legal and compliance protections while reducing complexity, negotiation friction, blocking issues, and cycle time.

Promote consistent legal positions and risk treatment; challenge legacy approaches, resolve issues within delegated authority, and call out material decisions with clear recommendations.

Manage localization of globally neutral content, limiting variations to approved legal or operational requirements.

Drive implementation activities, workshops, validation, testing, deployment readiness, and resolution of risks and dependencies.

Build alignment across Legal, SMEs, contracting and business teams, and enabling functions.

Collaborate closely with team members and external partners to deliver the role’s responsibilities.

Education and Professional Qualifications

Juris Doctor, LL.B., or equivalent proven professional contracting experience

Training or experience in legal operations, contracting or project management is helpful.

Experience and Key Skills

Minimum 4 years of relevant legal or contracting experience, with experience in commercial contracting or life sciences.

Advanced English level is required

Proven experience simplifying, harmonizing, governing, or implementing contrac