Suzanne A. Email & Phone Number

Nashua, Nh, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Senior Contract Specialist | Corporate Paralegal• Established strong cross-functional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to negotiate key company contracts, vetting and process improvements and mitigation of risk exposure.• Redlined, drafted, and negotiated domestic and international contracts, including master services agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs), nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), consulting agreements, software as a service (SaaS) license, and subscription agreements for information technology, real estate, construction, facilities, and human resources.• Negotiated contracts and established processes with specialty movers for multiple site moves.• Negotiated business associate agreement (BAAs), US data privacy addenda and GDPR data processing agreements (DPAs), and standard contractual clauses (SCCs) as needed.• Trained administrative staff to review new contracts requests and triage for pre-contractual requirements.• Drafted corporate actions and collaborated with business units to obtain clinical lab licenses and international distribution agreements.• Designed Smartsheets to track status and manage workflow of domestic and foreign corporate governance and privacy requirements.• Designed SharePoint sites for collaboration with stakeholders for contract review and negotiations, creation, and version control of company templates, playbooks, and corporate actions.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Negotiated commercial contracts capital, consumables, SaaS, consulting, and related privacy documents.• Created contract solutions that minimized risk and provided value to Philips and customers.• Supported customer fulfillment center and proposal center for requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for information (RFIs), and requests for quotations (RFQs).• Implemented and recommended improvements of policies and processes to ensure that proposals, contracts, and purchase orders aligned with company's business controls, policies, and procedures.• Advised management of contractual rights, obligations, and terms and conditions, identifying risks.• Trained sales team, customer fulfillment center, and proposal developers to ensure consistent application of corporate policies and procedures.• Maintained contract activity in Salesforce.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

• Reviewed incoming requests for investigator-sponsored research proposals and grants (proposals, budgets, and protocol) for various domestic and international academic and research institutions in Interventional cardiology.• Performed fair market value reviews, drafted and negotiated contracts, including payment structure, and made payments to grant recipients pursuant to contract terms.• Audited, scrubbed, enhanced, and maintained internal database.• Maintained company database and made payments to investigators.• After contracts were executed, entered contracts into the company database.• Created contract templates for the US and Canada, adding required privacy language.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Worked on behalf of Robert Half biotech and pharmaceutical clients.• Negotiated clinical trial, healthcare provider, institutional, and vendor contracts.• Audited, scrubbed, and verified existing contract databases.• Created contract templates for the US and Canada, adding required privacy language.

Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

• Negotiated contracts, including SaaS, real estate, marketing, supply, and services.• Consolidated company real estate and capital assets under corporate control, negotiated rental agreements, increased rental income, and reduced exposure.• Implemented, populated, and managed comprehensive contract management system.• Liaised with law enforcement agencies for subpoenas and fraud and identity theft matters.• Managed acquisition of real estate and corporate governance matters, including the acquisition of MetroCast.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Prepared and revised clinical trial and vendor contracts, collaborating with Procurement, stakeholders, and Legal on any changes to terms and conditions.• Designed base master service agreement with schedules for SaaS, transfer material agreements, etc.• Created audit file for each contract, memorializing negotiated terms.• Created playbook for contracts review and drafting.

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

• Performed lease abstractions and identified issues in American Tower’s acquisition of Verizon’s towers.• Created lease abstraction manual and standard summary templates for team to ensure standardized abstractions, quality, and consistency.• Drafted and reviewed amendments, LOIs, estoppels, SNDAs, and license agreements.

Salem, Nh

• Created centralized corporate and contract database and established data room for financing transactions.• Assembled and created board minutes for domestic and foreign holdings.• Reviewed domestic and international contracts for key terms and provisions.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

• Performed global subsidiary compliance and entity management, including annual filings, formation, merger and dissolution of legal entities, and support of corporate tax department on tax-related reorganizations.• Streamlined corporate governance of multiple international subsidiaries by standardizing bylaws.• Assisted in due diligence and integration of target acquisitions with M&A department.• Transitioned corporate entity management system.

Bachelor'S Degree, Criminal Justice/Paralegal

Activities and Societies: Dean's List; Outstanding Student Academic Year Department of Justice & Public SafetyParalegal Certification/.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, 4.0 -

Did not finish program due to military transfer