Principal Contract Analyst
MiniMed
Summary
Help bring life-changing diabetes technologies to patients around the world. As a Principal Clinical Contract Analyst at MiniMed, you’ll play a critical role in supporting global clinical research by leading the development, negotiation, and execution of complex clinical trial agreements, budgets, and related site documents. Partnering with clinical operations, legal, finance, and study teams, you’ll help ensure studies are initiated efficiently and conducted in compliance with applicable regulations and organizational standards. Your expertise will directly contribute to advancing innovative medical devices and digital health solutions that improve outcomes for people living with diabetes.
Job description
About the Role
Help bring life-changing diabetes technologies to patients around the world. As a Principal Clinical Contract Analyst at MiniMed, you’ll play a critical role in supporting global clinical research by leading the development, negotiation, and execution of complex clinical trial agreements, budgets, and related site documents. Partnering with clinical operations, legal, finance, and study teams, you’ll help ensure studies are initiated efficiently and conducted in compliance with applicable regulations and organizational standards. Your expertise will directly contribute to advancing innovative medical devices and digital health solutions that improve outcomes for people living with diabetes.
Responsibilities
- Administers, extends, negotiates and terminates standard and nonstandard contracts
- Conducts proposal preparation, contract negotiation, contract administration, and customer contact activities to provide for proper contract acquisition and fulfillment in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and customer specifications.
- Examines estimates of material, equipment services, production costs, performance requirements, and delivery schedules to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Prepares bids, processes specifications, progress, and other reports; advises management of contractual rights and obligations; compiles and analyzes data and maintains historical information.
- Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
- Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.
- Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
- May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
- Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
- Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.
Must Have: Minimum Qualifications
To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.
- High School Diploma and 6+ years contracts or regulatory relevant experience OR Bachelors Degree and 4+ years contracts or regulatory relevant experience
Nice to Have
- Previous contracts analyst experience with medical device company
- Strong cross functional collaboration skills in highly matrixed organization
- Previous team lead or mentorship experience
- Strong attention to detail and organization
Requirements
- High School Diploma and 6+ years contracts or regulatory relevant experience OR Bachelors Degree and 4+ years contracts or regulatory relevant experience
- Previous contracts analyst experience with medical device company
- Strong cross functional collaboration skills in highly matrixed organization
- Previous team lead or mentorship experience
- Strong attention to detail and organization
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
- Capital Accumulation Plan
Company overview
MiniMed is a leading medical device company specializing in diabetes management technologies, with a rich history dating back to its founding in 1983 by visionary entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann. Originally acquired by Medtronic in 2001, MiniMed recently became an independent publicly-traded company in 2026, trading on Nasdaq under the ticker "MMED" with a market capitalization of approximately $5.29 billion. The company is headquartered in Northridge, California, and employs nearly 8,000 dedicated professionals focused on advancing diabetes care. MiniMed is unique as the only diabetes technology company that manufactures both insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), offering integrated systems like the MiniMed 780G system with SmartGuard technology. Their flagship products include automated insulin delivery systems, continuous glucose monitoring sensors, and smart insulin pens designed to simplify diabetes management and improve patient outcomes. With a mission to make diabetes more predictable and manageable, MiniMed has established itself as a pioneer in diabetes technology, providing innovative solutions that help patients achieve better glucose control and enhance their quality of life.