Senior Site Contracts Negotiator

Senior Site Contracts Negotiator - Czech or Slovakia - home or office based

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

We are currently seeking a Site Contract Negotiator to join our diverse and dynamic team. As a Site Contract Negotiator at ICON, you will play a pivotal role in facilitating the initiation of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and contributing to the advancement of innovative treatments and therapies.

What you will do:

• Lead end-to-end negotiation of clinical trial agreements with investigative sites in the Czech Republic, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.

• Manage complex contract amendments and ancillary agreements, balancing compliance with commercial and operational priorities

• Act as a trusted partner to Czech sites, negotiating directly in Czech and English to build strong, long-term relationships

• Collaborate cross-functionally with study teams to enable timely site activation and study start-up

• Track and manage contract progress in ICON and client systems, ensuring full transparency and accuracy

• Proactively identify risks to timelines and drive mitigation strategies to keep studies on track

• Ensure all contractual documents are complete, compliant, and audit-ready

• Contribute to team knowledge sharing and may mentor junior colleagues

What you bring:

• Fluent English and Czech (essential) – ability to confidently negotiate with Czech sites

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 3–6 years’ experience in clinical research, ideally within site contracts, SSU, or legal/contracting roles

• Strong understanding of clinical trial agreements and negotiation processes

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and meet tight timelines

• High attention to detail and commitment to quality

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools

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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 maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized 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, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

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.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

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.

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