Senior Site Contracts Specialist, Malaysia
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Site Contracts Specialist managing clinical-trial contracts and budgets for Syneos Health’s life-sciences services. Supporting site start-up, negotiations, compliance, and cross-functional project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multi-country projects, including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for industry-sponsored clinical trials
- Produce and review site-specific contracts from country clinical trial agreement templates
- Submit proposed CTAs and investigator budgets for site review
- Negotiate budgets and contracts with sites, Site Contracts Service Centre, SSUL, and sponsors
- Perform quality control, arrange CTA execution, archive documents, and capture metadata
- Administer contract management processes across protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreements
- Generate amended contract and budget documents and streamline contract, proposal, and internal processes
- Collaborate with Site Contract Service Center and Legal to align site contracts with sponsor master service agreement terms
- Work with SSU lead, Clinical Operations, and Finance to validate departmental budget loads and backlog
- Identify contract and process risks, provide solutions, and escalate deviations
- Support business development and represent site contracts/SSU at internal or customer meetings
- Track country/site contracting timelines and milestone progress in the SSU tracking system
- Collaborate with legal, finance, and clinical operations teams on legal and budgetary issues
- Maintain contract templates, budget templates, site-specific files, and databases
- Serve as communication liaison regarding contract statuses and pending issues
- Train and mentor less experienced staff and maintain training materials
- Facilitate contract execution by company signatories
- Monitor project financial aspects and contract hours/tasks, escalating discrepancies
- Review and comply with SOPs and WIs and ensure timesheet compliance
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Advanced degree preferred
- Moderate contracts management experience, including experience in a contract research organization or pharmaceutical industry
- Management experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of the clinical development process and legal and contracting parameters
- Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite
- Customer-focused and able to manage challenging priorities and remain flexible and adaptable in stressful situations
- Excellent understanding of clinical trial process across Phases II-IV and ICH GCP
- Good understanding of clinical protocols and associated study specifications
- Excellent understanding of clinical trial start-up processes
- Project management experience in a fast-paced environment
- Good vendor management skills
- Strong organizational skills with proven ability to handle multiple projects
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Quality-driven in all managed activities
- Strong negotiating skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to mentor and motivate more junior staff
- Ability to provide quality feedback and guidance to peers
- Ability to contribute to a training and Quality assurance plan within SSU and update SOPs/WI
- Ability to comply with SOPs, WIs, training records, and timesheet requirements
Benefits:
- Career development and progression
- Supportive and engaged line management
- Technical and therapeutic area training
- Peer recognition
- Total rewards program
- Inclusive culture
- Reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, for employees or applicants with disabilities





