FSP Contract Specialist
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Job Description
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









