Contract Specialist I

The Contract Specialist I we are looking for will be 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 Contact Specialist will also be expected to balance the requirements of ensuring appropriate controls with a streamlined, customer-focused, and timely contracting process.

Contract Negotiations

The Contract Specialist plays a critical role in communicating and negotiating contracts with the appropriate site, team, or affiliate personnel, including:

• Communicate sponsors 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 Trial Capabilities Associates 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
• Work with partners to review/approve all contracts exceptions.

Process Improvement and Training

The Contract Specialist will be responsible for maintaining and conducting contract-related training, including:

• Develop and implement training for new Contract Specialists and customers
• Create, maintain, and distribute contract templates, process documentation, and contract-specific documentation.

The Contract Specialist also provides clinical trial contract guidance to other business partners, including:

• Develop process documentation
• Facilitate quality, speed and value through information sharing, business partnership, and assurance that all guidance is aligned with sponsors policies, clinical processes, and appropriate guidance
• Facilitating meetings with other contracting groups.

Contract Process Improvements

The Contract Specialist is 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
• Anticipate changes by evaluating issues and opportunities, both internal and external, and making recommendations to management.

You will need:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-5 years experience negotiating contracts
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong critical thinking skills
• 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

We believe our Clinical Operations team is second to none. You will receive the support you need to develop personally and professionally and work in an environment where you matter. Our team pushes forward together. United in solving problems, developing close site relationships and reaching the end goal. Operating as a key part of a global study team, the CRA plays a fundamental role in our clients’ drug development processes.