Senior Site Contracts Lead with CRO/Pharma experience (Client Dedicated/Remote-US)

Role Overview

The Senior Site Contracts Lead will establish, maintain, and update training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators. They will serve as a subject matter expert within the organization, equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues, and an escalation point within the Company for internal customers to seek assistance.

What You Will Do

The Senior Site Contracts Lead will oversee negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA’s) on a study level, drive CTA document finalization and execution, and provide oversight of contact and budget negotiations status. They will also advise study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have experience in CRO/Pharma and a strong understanding of site contracts and investigator budget management. They will be able to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to drive successful negotiation of contracts and budgets.

Requirements

• Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators
• Serves as subject matter expert within the organization equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues
• Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA’s) on a study level
• Provides oversight of contact and budget negotiations status
• Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations
• Acts as first-line subject matter expert for all such CTA elements on assigned studies
• Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies
• Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract and budget negotiators
• Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates
• Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions
• Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis
• Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments
• Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms
• Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates
• May support BU and organization through help desk and other defined pathways to resolve and deescalate issues
• May identify and lead internal team training and/or process improvement initiatives
• Participates in business development presentations as a subject matter expert in site contracts and investigator budget management within the Company

Benefits

• Company car or car allowance
• Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
• Company match 401k
• Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance
• Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time