Contract Analyst

As a Contract Analyst you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.

The mission of the Contracts group is to provide clinical trial site budget and contract negotiations, purchase order creation, and payment support for clinical trial and medical research consulting agreements with institutions, investigators, and consultants located globally.
Our vision is to successfully develop clinical trial and medical research agreements through effective negotiations, timely execution, and accurate payments by way of process optimization while ensuring
compliance with sponsor’s policies.

The Contract Analyst is responsible for overseeing specific clinical contract activities. The primary responsibilities include providing contract process guidance, conducting contract negotiations, conducting contract analyses, facilitating compliance, and pursuing contracting process improvements.
The Contract Analyst will also be expected to balance the requirements of ensuring appropriate controls with a streamlined, customer-focused, and timely contracting process.

What you will be doing:

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• Contract Negotiations: Plays a critical role in communicating and negotiating contracts with the appropriate site, team, or affiliate personnel, including:
  • Communicate sponsor’s position on various contract issues, identify relationship-building opportunities, secure site contracts, collect site feedback, and facilitate communication with various personnel. This responsibility includes assisting Contracts Analyst with difficult
    contract negotiations and significant interventions, and follow-up will be necessary to facilitate this objective;
  • Communicate and negotiate more complex contracts, including Phase I, PET Studies, Oncology Cooperatives, Oncology Networks, and/or Endocrine portfolio sites; and
  • Work with partners across sponsor to review/approve all contracts exceptions.
• Will be responsible for maintaining and conducting contract-related training, including

  • Develop and implement training for new contract analyst and customers;

  • Create, maintain, and distribute contract templates, process documentation, and contract specific documentation(such as the Legal Guidance Document,) as the contract process owner; and

  • Act as a mentor to the Contract Analyst to provide the necessary guidance and knowledge transfer to allow the contract analysts to be successful negotiators.

• Also provides clinical trial contract guidance to other sponsor business partners, including
  • Develop process documentation;
  • Facilitate quality, speed and value through information sharing, business partnership, and assurance that all guidance is aligned with sponsor policies, clinical processes, and appropriate
    guidance;
  • Facilitating meetings with other contracting groups; and
  • Serve as the primary contact and process owner for interactions between TC and sponsor Legal personnel related to process changes, documentation requirements, and site contracting issues.
• Responsible for identifying and implementing improvements to the contracting processes
  • Accountable for standardizing and streamlining contract activities, as well as using metrics to drive improvement throughout the entire contracting process;
  • Increase contracting efficiency and effectiveness by ensuring that learning is shared and leveraged; and
  • Anticipate changes by evaluating issues and opportunities, both internal and external, and making recommendations to TC management.

You are:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-5 years experience negotiating contracts
• Thorough understanding of GDPR and other privacy regulations
• Experience negotiating privacy clauses with clinical research sites
• Experience working with global business partners and a global team.
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Process driven
• Strong critical thinking skills

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximise savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others

Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values.   We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.