Senior Site Contracts Negotiator

Role Summary:

Responsible for the successful negotiation and on-going maintenance of clinical trial agreements, complex amendments, and other ancillary agreements with investigative sites.

Responsibilities:

• Drafts, reviews, negotiates, and finalizes clinical trial agreements, complex amendments, and other ancillary agreements with study sites using critical thinking, available tools/systems/documents, historical data, and adheres to departmental and/or client quality check requirements in a manner that protects ICON’s fundamental interests and is consistent with ICON’s rules, procedures, and policies.
• Maintains consistent communication with study sites and internal stakeholders in alignment with site contracts department and client requirements.
• Tracks progress of site contracts agreements and related documents regularly in required ICON and client systems.
• Proactively identifies and raises risks, while also, suggesting mitigation plans to established study milestones and planned site contracts timelines.
• Files contractual documents per department, ICON, and client requirements.
• Attends and participates in study team project calls, as applicable.
• Works cross functionally with internal stakeholders in support of timely site start up and maintenance for the conduct of clinical trials including accurate forecast of contract execution timelines.
• Reviews site contracts for completeness and accuracy and ensures adherence to department and client requirements, corrects documents, and files changes to contracts.
• Participates/contributes in departmental initiatives.
• May serve as mentor for other site contracts department team members.
• Completes all required project, client, department, and ICON trainings on time and adheres to the applicable SOPs, processes, and procedures.

What you need:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3-6 years of experience in a Clinical Research environment
• Demonstrates professionalism in conducting daily activities.
• Exhibits extensive competency in Microsoft Office Suite applications (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to follow written and oral instructions from a variety of sources.
• Completes tasks independently on time and in an efficient manner.
• Ability to mentor and train other site contracts team members as needed.
• Demonstrates effective time management skills and has ability to prioritize multiple tasks with minimal management guidance and oversight.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.
• Confidence in dealing with external and internal clients.