Contract Specialist – FSP
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Job Description
Site Contract Specialist negotiating investigator budgets and study-site agreements for a global pharmaceutical research services company. Coordinating contract activities with site activation timelines across clinical trials.
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, authority approvals, contractual processes, client expectations, budget 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 according to established guidelines and processes
- Liaise with study sites and internal functional teams to establish effective working relationships
- Ensure quality, objectivity and risk analysis in 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
- Equivalent 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 verbal and written communication skills in English and local language
- Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters, with appropriate oversight
- Attention to detail
- Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills
- Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement
- Ability to work independently or in a team environment
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs
- Ability to organize competing priorities and review contractual risks and issues
- Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications
- Customer-focused communication, problem-solving and collaboration skills
- Ability to meet the stated physical, attendance, software-access, communication, multitasking and stress-performance requirements
Benefits:
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Full-time employment





