Contracts Manager - Gulf (6-month fixed term contract)

Site Name: UAE - Dubai
Posted Date: Oct 29 2025

Job Purpose:

Temporary (6-month fixed term contract, with potential extension based on individual performance and business need)

As a Contracts Manager for the Gulf region, you will play a critical role in ensuring contractual agreements align with our business goals, operational needs, and compliance standards. This position offers you the opportunity to contribute to healthcare innovation while growing within our purpose-driven organization.

Key Responsibilities:
As a Contracts Manager, you will lead crucial activities that directly impact GSK’s operations and objectives. Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Managing the end-to-end lifecycle of contracts, including drafting, negotiation, execution, and performance monitoring.
• Ensuring contracts adhere to legal, regulatory, and company compliance standards.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align contracts with organizational goals.
• Proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and ensuring contract performance.
• Providing training and guidance on contract management processes to internal teams.
• Driving process improvements to optimize contract efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
To excel in this role, you should possess:

• A bachelor’s degree in business administration, Law, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in contract management or a similar function.
• Solid understanding of contract law and regulatory frameworks.
• Exceptional negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and contract management software/tools.

Preferred Qualifications:
Although not required, the following qualifications are advantageous:

• Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Familiarity with Gulf region regulations and business practices.
• Certification in contract management or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.

Work Environment:
This role is based on-site at our Dubai, UAE office.

How to Apply:
If you’re ready to join us in this impactful role, apply today! Together, we’ll shape the future of healthcare.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Contact information:

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