Sr Site Contracts Lead - China/Australia/Singapore/Korea

at  Syneos Health

SENIOR SITE CONTRACTS LEAD

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Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job

• Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators.
• Serves as subject matter expert within the organization equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues, and escalation point within the Company for internal customers to seek assistance.
• Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA´s) on a study level and drives CTA document finalization and execution, including contractual language & terms, financial attachments, and investigator grant budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators.
• Provides oversight of contact & budget negotiations status and manages escalation of out-of-parameter queries on budgetary and contractual requests to sponsor decision-makers in all regions of study conduct. Provides consultation during escalation of out-of-parameter queries as needed.
• Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations. Provides consultation on potential risks and mitigation tactics for negotiation issues pertaining to overall study start-up needs.
• Acts as first-line subject matter expert for all such CTA elements on assigned studies for internal and sponsor stakeholders alike. Advises stakeholders on issue resolution within the context of assigned studies. May seek additional support from internal support structures as needed.
• Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies—including forecast of site-specific contractual execution timelines with as much accuracy as possible—and coordinates with internal study team stakeholders to ensure that CTA strategy is aligned with overall study start-up plans and expectations overall. Manages expectations of internal and sponsor study team regarding global CTA negotiations for assigned studies.
• Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators including roll-up of all status updates to regular team forum. Participates in regular study calls to facilitate communication as needed.
• Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters and processes within Company standards in order to drive successful negotiation of contracts and budgets.
• Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contractual templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.
• Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions. Establishes strong working relationships with customer and internal project teams. Escalates deviations to senior management and is equipped to resolve issues with Quality Assurance.
• Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis; ensures appropriate documentation is maintained.
• Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.
• Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms within corporate and industry standards during negotiation with sites.
• Identifies best practices, investigates root causes of fundamental issues and problems for projects and recommends solutions.
• Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates and ensures quality of teamwork products.
• May support BU and organization through help desk and other defined pathways to resolve and deescalate issues.
• May identify and lead internal team training and/or process improvement initiatives.
• Participates in business development presentations as a subject matter expert in site contracts and investigator budget management within the Company
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).
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