Immediate opportunity for three (3) remote, Sr Associates, Clinical Contracts & Budgets. The Sr Associate, Clinical Contracts & Budgets provides clinical site contracting services to clinical study teams to support study start up and conduct activities.

Pay Range: Market rate depending on education and experience

Position Length: 1 yr. contract position; extension possible

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage end to end process for clinical site contracts and clinical trial related consulting agreements (including contracts, amendments and termination letters preparation, negotiation, escalation, translation, distribution, signature, archiving).
• Support site-related questions regarding invoice preparation with respect to submission of invoices in Company Payment System (eGPS)
• Support resolution of contract and budget issues
• Support contracting with local GSO vendors
• Maintain contract tracking in appropriate systems
• Manage Confidential Disclosure Agreement process
• Identify opportunities and best practices with local and regional partners that will contribute to overall operational effectiveness
• Ensure payments are made in accordance with contracts
• Maintain payment data tracking in appropriate systems
• Responsible for providing information for entry into systems

Key Activities:

• Negotiate site contracts from the contract templates using appropriate guidelines, and collect necessary signatures for contract execution
• Negotiate site budgets from base budget and payment milestones using appropriate guidelines; complete final budget for inclusion in the contract
• Escalate contract and budget issues to Legal or Clinical Pricing & Payments Group and GCPM as appropriate to ensure Fair Market Value compliance
• Set up financial data, raise purchase orders and handle appropriate entries/requests into relevant financial and payment systems
• Support Clinical Pricing & Payments Group in setting up sites for eGPS , ClinCard or legacy systems.
• Track contract progression using appropriate systems
• Amend and terminate contracts as necessary throughout lifecycle of study
• Store and archive contracts and budgets in appropriate systems
• Maintain payment records and provide assistance with audit review records
• Responsible for reviewing and approving, with Law guidance, applicable changes within ICF part 2.
• Responsible for the contracting process and/or point-of-contact for vendor for locally outsourced studies
• Responsible for the Clinical Trials Insurance process
• Participate in appropriate site/legal meetings as required to resolve contract issues
• Participate in appropriate site/finance meetings as required to resolve payment issues
• Maintain party information and contract activation in Contract Generation System
• Approve or reject clinical invoices
• Process and track Confidential Disclosure Agreements as appropriate
• Manage contracting process with Clinical Trial Related Consulting Agreements
• Manage all study-related Site payments not managed by Clinical Pricing & Payments Group

Qualitifications:

• Master's degree (MS) OR Bachelor's degree (BS) and 2 years of experience
• Recent (within last 3 years) contract and budget negotiation experience in a clinical trial setting
• Directly involved with the negotiation of terms for various contract types (CTA, CDA, Master Agreements, etc) and site budgets
• Good working knowledge of common software packages (e.g. Office 365 esp. Excel, Word, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, SAP)
• Attention to detail
• Negotiation skills
• Organizational Skills
• Relationship management
• Time management & prioritization
• Flexibility
• Written and oral communication skills
• Data analysis and presentation skills
• Problem solver
• Team work