Manager, Site Budgeting and Contracting

Role Summary

Manager, Site Budgeting and Contracting — remote position reporting to the Site Budgeting and Contracting leadership team. This role supports global SB&C tasks, partners with Sites, CROs and internal Study and Startup teams to ensure timely contract execution and study startup forecasts, and drives negotiation and administration of master clinical trial agreements.

Responsibilities

• Supports delivery of global site budgeting and contracting (SB&C) tasks, partnering with Sites, CRO and internal/external Study and Startup team members.
• Manage escalations and review of global site budgets and contracts from CRO partners to ensure timely contract execution and study startup forecasts are achieved.
• Drive negotiation and administration of master clinical trial agreements.
• Support the development of processes, methodologies, data, and technologies to improve SB&C delivery.
• Manage negotiations, finalization and administration of Master Clinical Trial Agreements.
• Responsible for assigned study-level SB&C function to develop, negotiate, administer and execute assigned Clinical Trial Agreements and budgets.
• Oversight of budget setup including parameters for assigned studies.
• Partner with Study Start up Managers, CROs, Clinical Operations teams, and TAU partners to improve SB&C metrics and implement processes.
• Ensure standards are applied to SB&C processes across project portfolios and support continuous improvement while developing TA-aligned strategies.
• Escalation point for global budget escalations outside of budget parameters.
• Leverage industry tools and data sources to provide budget and contract feedback aligned with company parameters and fair market value guidance.
• Identify and address delays, providing solutions to resolve and escalate non-performance.
• Manage site contracts and budgets negotiation timelines to ensure sites are Ready To Enroll to the Startup Project Plan.

Qualifications

• BS degree or international equivalent.
• 4 or more years of experience in clinical research site contracting and budgeting with increasing responsibility within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or relevant industry vendor.
• 2 or more years of global site budgeting and contracting oversight and/or negotiation.
• Ability to explain data and facilitate data-driven decision making.
• Expertise in principles driving country/site budgeting and contracting strategies.
• Excellent organizational skills, decision making, communication and negotiation skills.

Education

• BS degree or international equivalent.