Brian Grimes Email and Phone Number

Senior Contracts Manager with 16+ years experience in Contracts Management. I have experience within the following industries: healthcare, medical devices/biomed, pharmaceuticals, staffing and consulting. 5+ years as a contracts department manager, with over 5+ years as a department lead. I have extensive experience in drafting, reviewing, and redlining contracts, and contracts negotiations. I have significant experience in managing multi-million dollar contracts and in being the lead contracting manager for a multi-million dollar product line. I also have extensive experience in building departments for contracting, compliance, and risk management, including establishing departmental processes, procedures and workflows. I have built one contracts/risk department from the ground up by myself. I built another contracts department as part of a team and in another department I changed and/or built out a number of the departments reporting tools, metrics, and policies and procedures.I have extensive experience in both sales and vendor agreements, and experience in managing or collaborating within both the sales and procurement processes. For sales agreements, I have extensive experience in pricing approval, sales negotiations, and developing sales strategies. For vendor agreements, I have extensive experience in working with procurement teams and the budgeting processes. I have worked with various agreement types, including Master Service Agreements (MSAs), SOWs, Purchase Orders, NDAs, SaaS agreements, RFI/RFP responses, Data Privacy Agreements. Experienced with Microsoft Office products, Sharepoint, Salesforce, Workday, Ariba, some SAP experience.Experience: Contracts Manager, Senior Contracts Manager, Senior Contracts Consulting, Sourcing, Risk Management.Areas of Expertise: Contracts Analysis, Contracts Drafting, Redlining, Contracts Administration, Contracts Negotiation, Pricing Analysis and Approval, Procurement/Sourcing Support, Corporate Risk Management, Insurance, Contracts Database Design and Administration, Project Management, Process Improvement, Training and Development, Department Creation, Team Leadership, Legal Research, Compliance Reporting, Data Protection, Critical Thinking, Organizational Skills, Problem Solving, Operational Efficiency