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Site Contract Specialist negotiating clinical-trial agreements and investigator budgets for pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Coordinating site activation contracts, risk analysis, and internal study teams.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize agreements with study sites
- Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms, and conditions within approved parameters
- Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, client expectations, budgetary guidance, templates, and procedures
- Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately
- Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for investigator contract negotiations
- Coordinate with internal functional departments on site startup activities and contractual timelines
- Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation
- Achieve target cycle times for site activations
- Escalate out-of-parameter issues through established channels
- Liaise with study sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships and ensure efficient contract delivery
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- 2–5 years of previous experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job
- An equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered sufficient
- Good understanding of contract law principles, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws
- Ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation
- General understanding of business and financial principles related to service agreements
- Effective communication skills in English and local language
- Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
- Attention to detail and excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills
- Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement
- Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs
- Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications
- Ability to organize competing priorities and review contractual risks and issues
- Regular and consistent attendance
- Ability to work in Belgium or the Netherlands
Benefits:
- Fully Remote work arrangement
- Full-time employment
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