Site Contract & Budget Manager
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Site Contracts & Budget Manager leading clinical-trial contracting and budget negotiations for Indero, a dermatology and rheumatology CRO. Managing teams, sponsor negotiations, study budgets, and process improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage Site Budget & Contracting staff, including direction, coaching, development, workload oversight, and support
- Oversee site contracting and budget negotiation activities across awarded clinical trials
- Oversee Clinical Trial Agreements, financial exhibits, amendments, negotiation parameters, and country-specific requirements
- Establish and maintain contracting strategies, standards, and negotiation approaches
- Serve as the escalation point for complex or high-risk contract and budget negotiations
- Oversee implementation of study-specific site budgets, approval pathways, exceptions, and escalations
- Translate proposal-stage budget assumptions into study- and site-level budget and contracting strategies
- Collaborate with Legal Affairs, Project Management, Study Start-Up, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Finance, and other stakeholders
- Provide site contracting expertise during proposal development
- Participate in bid defense meetings, client presentations, and sponsor strategy discussions
- Monitor portfolio-level contracting and budget performance and identify risks, delays, capacity constraints, and quality concerns
- Own and oversee templates, negotiation tools, country intelligence, guidance documents, trackers, and other functional resources
- Ensure contracting and budget data integrity across tools, trackers, and systems
- Lead process improvement, digital transformation, and automation initiatives
- Establish and monitor performance indicators and use operational data for corrective action and continuous improvement
- Ensure staff training and adherence to SOPs, processes, templates, tools, and quality standards
- Partner with senior leadership on resource planning, functional priorities, systems, quality, and continuous improvement
- Foster accountability, collaboration, risk management, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team
Requirements:
- B.Sc. or in a relevant field of study
- 5+ years of experience in clinical research, clinical trial budgeting, or related financial management roles within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry
- Strong negotiation and communication skills to engage with sponsors, external budget contacts, and internal stakeholders
- Experience creating and maintaining budget templates tailored to global regions and therapeutic areas
- Experience representing the organization in bid defense meetings and client calls
- Technical proficiency to maintain pricing tools, cost databases, and budget models in collaboration with Finance and IT teams
- Leadership abilities to train and mentor junior specialists
- Demonstrated success in partnering with senior team members to refine internal processes and improve deliverables
- Strategic thinking and experience contributing to process improvement initiatives
- Good knowledge of good clinical practices and applicable Health Canada and FDA regulations/guidelines
Benefits:
- Permanent full-time position
- Flexible schedule
- Vacation
- Home-based position
- Ongoing learning and development
- Attractive advancement opportunities
- Accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process for applicants with disabilities, upon request
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