FSP Contract Specialist

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Site Contract Specialist negotiating investigator budgets and agreements for a global clinical research services company. Coordinating site activation contracts, risk reviews, and internal functional teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Draft, review, negotiate and finalize agreements with study sites according to local and accepted processes
  • Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters
  • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, authority approvals, contractual processes, client expectations, budgetary guidance, templates and procedures
  • Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks, escalating issues through established channels
  • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for investigator contract negotiations
  • Coordinate with internal functional departments to align site startup and contractual activities with agreed timelines
  • Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation
  • Achieve target cycle times for site activations
  • Escalate out-of-parameter issues appropriately
  • Liaise with 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
  • Equivalency through a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered
  • Good understanding of contract law, 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 work in an upright and/or stationary position for 6–8 hours per day
  • Ability to perform repetitive hand movements and frequent mobility
  • Ability to occasionally crouch, stoop, bend and twist the upper body and neck
  • Ability to lift and carry up to 15–20 lbs
  • Ability to access and use in-house and off-the-shelf computer software
  • Regular and consistent attendance
  • Ability to perform under stress and multitask

Benefits:

  • Fully Remote work arrangement
  • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule