Site Budget and Contracts Specialist

Contract Analyst /Site Contract & Budget Negotiator - Romania - Remote

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 an experienced Site Budget and Contract Specialist to join our diverse and dynamic FSP team in Romania.

In this role, you will provide budget and contract negotiations, purchase order creation, and payment support for clinical trial and medical research consulting agreements with institutions, investigators, and consultants.

You 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. 
 

What you will be doing:

• Communicating and negotiating contracts with the appropriate site, team, or affiliate personnel

• Identify relationship-building opportunities, secure site contracts, collect site feedback, and facilitate communication with various personnel

• Communicate and negotiate more complex contracts, including Phase I, PET Studies, Oncology Cooperatives, Oncology Networks, and/or Endocrine portfolio sites

• Responsible for maintaining and conducting contract-related training

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

• Create, maintain, and distribute contract templates, process documentation, and contract specifics documentation

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

• Provides clinical trial contract guidance to other sponsor's business partners

• Serve as the primary contact and process owner for interactions between the team and sponsor's Legal personnel related to process changes, documentation requirements, and site contracting issues.

• 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;

Your Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree

• 3-5 years experience negotiating budgets & contracts 

• Prior experience in contract analysis, finance, or a related field preferred.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

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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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