Case Study: Alnylam consolidated contract templates from 70 to 5 with Ironclad
Key results
The challenge
When Elliot Mandel joined Alnylam to establish its legal operations function, contracting clearly needed attention. The existing finance-driven requisitioning system offered only two steps for legal, draft and send, with everything else handled offline, and its primary users were scientists and salespeople rather than professional purchasers.
The solution
Using Ironclad's Workflow Designer to add conditional language, the team consolidated agreement templates and streamlined complex processes such as agreements with healthcare professionals.
“The language matters very much, the kind of things that you need to have in your contracts when you're dealing with those kind of relationships.”
EMElliot MandelVP of Legal Operations, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
The results, in context
Alnylam consolidated from 70 templates down to just 5, dramatically improving consistency and accuracy, and cut turnaround times from weeks to days while processing thousands of contracts. Legal operations shifted from an administrative bottleneck to a strategic advisor invited into business discussions.