Title: Clinical Trial Contract Manager
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 3+ months
Description:
- The Clinical Trial Contract Manager is responsible for ensuring that the clinical trial /site budget is of high quality and allocations are within fair market value.
- This role is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Sites Fee Framework as well as timely and accurate coordination, processing, monitoring, and administration of payments to sites according to budget and terms.
- The incumbent will be responsible for the support of management goals and objectives of the department.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Prepares, negotiates, and executes a variety of agreements
- Reviews contract language and prepares responses to negotiate contract modifications.
- Maintains contract files and systems.
- Maintains close working relationships with all Clinical Operations as well as Legal, Ethics & Compliance and Clinical Development & Medical Affairs (CDMA).
- Ability to build clinical trial site budget and ensure it is of high quality and allocations are within fair market values (FMV); analyze protocol flowcharts to create costing, payment strategies, and budget estimates and negotiation parameters within FMV.
- Drives development and maintenance of Site Fee Framework
- Sets up, closes, re-opens, and submits payments within all grants.
- Effectively uses budget-specific and trial metrics and tools to report on, provide visibility into, and analyze performance and deliverables.
- Maintains a focused continuous improvement culture by identifying and executing strategies and priorities to enable the Budget group to deliver value and enhance overall operational effectiveness.
- Actively remains current with industry standards, trends, and competitive intelligence on budget best practices.
- Interfaces across Medical, all TAs, Finance, Legal, and external parties, e.g., investigators, site personnel, third-party vendors.
- Liaises with the Clinical Trial Manager and TA Lead for review and approval of the budget
- Liaises with Clinical Finance/Accounting Department, Legal Department (if needed), and the local Head of Clin Ops and/or Clinical Operations Management for approval of payment-related decisions (e.g., standard payment frequency) and maintains proper documentation.
- Represents Contract/Budget group processes on local/global working groups.
- Ensures commitment to customer-centric behaviors.
- Maintains a high degree of responsiveness to both internal and external requests
Skills:
- Strong clinical background and budgeting understanding of cost drivers and benchmarks for clinical site budget.
- Ability to think strategically and initiate strong and persuasive contractual arguments to support business policies and objectives.
- Track record in setting priorities, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision-making.
- Excellent customer service skills and close attention to detail.
- Demonstrated analytical skills and critical thinking to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations requiring new solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to be clear and concise in a variety of communication settings.
- Experience in working with systems and applications related to clinical and/or project management planning and reporting systems.
- Excellent knowledge of computer applications (Excel, Word, Access) is essential. Knowledge of Veeva is a plus.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of five (5) years of relevant business experience in regulated pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry.
About Client:
As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunities for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the company's success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.
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