Global Distribution Partnerships Specialist

The Role

The Global Distribution Partnerships Specialist is an expert role in the Global Distribution Partnerships function, responsible for applying contract lifecycle, governance, and operational expertise to support high-quality execution of global partner contracting activities. The role contributes expert input across contract management, documentation standards, reporting, and control processes, ensuring consistency, compliance, and effective management of partnership arrangements.

This role is integral to strengthening contract integrity, governance discipline, and operational rigour across the global distribution partnerships landscape. By combining technical knowledge, analytical capability, and sound judgement, the Specialist helps enable scalable partnership operations, improved visibility, and more effective decision-making across regions.

Strategic Contribution

The Specialist contributes expertise that strengthens the effectiveness, consistency, and control of global distribution partnership contracting and governance.

• Strengthen the global partnership framework through specialist contract lifecycle expertise, disciplined governance, and consistent application of approved standards.
• Enhance the quality of the global partner ecosystem by applying robust documentation standards, contract controls, and onboarding governance.
• Improve compliance and risk management by identifying contractual deviations, maintaining audit-ready records, and reinforcing effective controls.
• Drive greater operational effectiveness through optimisation of contracting workflows, disciplined CLM practices, and continuous process improvement.
• Generate higher-quality business insight through accurate contract data, meaningful reporting, and clear performance visibility.

Act as a trusted specialist resource to cross-functional stakeholders by bringing strong judgement, responsiveness, and subject-matter knowledge to partnership-related activities.

Key Responsibilities

1. Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Expertise

• Act as a subject-matter resource on CLM platforms (Gatekeeper and Adobe Sign), ensuring effective configuration, workflow integrity, and strong user adoption.
• Maintain and refine contracting templates, clause libraries, and playbooks in line with approved governance standards and evolving business requirements.
• Identify system or process gaps and work with internal stakeholders or external vendors to strengthen capability, efficiency, and control.

2. Contract Data & Reporting & Insights

• Own the integrity of contract metadata and documentation, ensuring accurate, complete, and reliable records across the partnership portfolio.
• Develop dashboards and reporting that provide visibility on cycle times, approvals, renewals, compliance, and contracting performance.
• Translate contract and workflow data into clear insights for Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, and leadership stakeholders.
• Proactively monitor key milestones and renewal triggers to support timely action and reduce contractual risk.

3. Contract Review & Governance Analysis

• Conduct structured reviews of standard partner agreements to assess alignment with approved templates, commercial parameters, and governance requirements.
• Apply approved fallback positions and identify deviations, risks, or points requiring escalation to managerial or legal stakeholders.
• Provide informed guidance on documentation quality and contracting requirements to help ensure complete and robust contract packages.

4. Regional Negotiation Support

• Contribute specialist contract input to routine partner negotiations, including drafting refinements, interpretation of approved terms, and clarification of contracting positions.
• Advise regional stakeholders on approved contractual positions, permissible variations, and governance expectations.
• Apply strong judgement to partner onboarding and contract close-out requirements, ensuring documentation is complete, compliant, and aligned to business standards.

5. Renewals Management

• Manage visibility of global renewal cycles and identify priority actions well in advance of key decision points.
• Prepare renewal materials informed by performance data, pricing updates, contractual obligations, and governance considerations.
• Coordinate and interpret cross-functional inputs to support well-informed and timely renewal decisions.

6. Process & Governance

• Identify and implement improvements to contracting workflows, documentation standards, and operational controls to enhance efficiency and consistency.
• Develop and maintain clear operating procedures covering intake, approvals, renewals, governance, and archival requirements.
• Apply strong knowledge of internal policies, legal frameworks, and relevant pharmaceutical regulations to reinforce compliant contracting practices.

Experience & Qualifications

• 2–5 years’ experience in contract management, commercial operations, legal operations, partner governance, or a similar specialist role.
• Experience reviewing commercial agreements, managing contract processes, and applying template, clause, and governance standards.
• Familiarity with global distribution, channel partner, or other complex commercial environments is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management, documentation controls, and contracting best practice.
• Ability to analyse contract data, generate meaningful insights, and communicate findings clearly to stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, multicultural global organisation with multiple stakeholders and priorities.
• High attention to detail, strong judgement, and the ability to balance accuracy with pace in a controlled environment.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets, dashboards, reporting tools, and contract lifecycle systems.
• Clear communicator, comfortable influencing across global time zones and cross-functional teams.

Personal Attributes

• Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented.
• Confident applying judgement within defined governance frameworks.
• Collaborative and credible with cross-functional stakeholders in a global environment.
• Proactive, curious, and committed to continuous improvement.
• Comfortable navigating complexity and solving problems in a dynamic environment.

• Uniphar Background

  Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.

  Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma

  Uniphar Pharma

  Pharma is a global division operating across US, Europe, APAC and MENA, bringing a range of pharma services to manufacturers across the product life cycle. We leverage this platform to provide unlicensed medicines, or medicines that are otherwise difficult to source. In addition, we commercialise launch and established brands to HCPs on behalf of pharmaceutical clients across the globe. The core to this division is providing equitable access to medicines globally.

  Culture at Uniphar

  From our leadership team and across all of our divisions, Uniphar lives and breathes four key culture pillars:

  1.We have a People First approach, we do the right thing and take a stand for our people.

  2.We foster a strong Entrepreneurial Spirit where Adaptability, Commitment & Resilience is embodied in our way of working.

  3.We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people.

  4. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

  How we’d like to work together

  As we are a global team, there is flexibility to be based in one of Uniphar’s offices or work from home. There may be a need for face to face meetings in other locations, as needed. There may also some flexibility required in order to interact with colleagues or clients in their time zones (i.e. it’s not a ‘9 to 5’ type of job). In return, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it through our Hybrid Working philosophy.