Senior Site Contracts Lead

About this role

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.

At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.
Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.
Key Accountabilities:
Site Contract Lead Tasks:

• Oversee the site contracting process for clinical trials, ensuring that contracts are executed in a timely and effective manner.

• Monitor, drive, and report on site contract performance throughout the whole lifecycle, specifically metrics such as contract cycle times, contract aging time, contract quality and tracking compliance.

• Developing all Project set up documents for contracting, including but not limited to: Clinical Trial Agreement templates, Fallback languages, Site Contract Plan, etc.

• Advise on investigator grant budgets/parameters in collaboration with a global team of Grant Strategy and Investigator fees.

• Ensuring that all terms and conditions are clear, effectively aligned with the overall project needs.

• Participate on KOMs to provide feedback on preferable contracting strategies and beneficial tactics.

• Oversee project specific Site Contracts team, providing leadership, guidance, and necessary project/client specific training to the team members.

• Develop and implement best practices for site contract management, including specific processes, procedures, and tools.

• May support the department through shared knowledge and other defined pathways, as well as deescalate issues.

• Conscientiously control the budget from a site contracting aspect, ensuring that costs are tracked, managed, and communicated timely and effectively.

• Identify and mitigate risks associated with the site contracting process, including risks related to timelines, costs, effectiveness of implemented strategy, and quality. Collaborate with all relevant stakeholders until resolution.

• Maintain frequent, clear and effective communication with all stakeholders involved with or dependent upon the site contracting process, including sponsors, key internal stakeholders, vendors, collaborative CROs and sites (as applicable).

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with external and internal stakeholders and facilitate alignment of relevant parties aiming at expedited contract execution.

• Provide necessary support to cross-functional teams including Start up, Global Clinical Operations, Investigator Payments, Business Development and Feasibility.

• Provide regular updates and reports on the site contracting process to clients, senior management and other stakeholders as needed.

• Monitor data accuracy and completeness.

• Support Project Lead with implementation of project hour forecasting for Site Contracts team to ensure accurate planning, resource allocation and budgeting throughout trial lifecycle.

Skills:

• Possess strong diplomacy, leadership skills and excellent organizational ability.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Ability to motivate both individuals and a team with strong influencing skills.

• Ability to successfully work in a “virtual” multicultural team environment and across different time zones different time zones.

• Must have strong analytical skills with the ability to create or interpret legal language and budgets.

• Demonstrate thought leadership and innovation.

• Maintain grace under pressure while displaying a high level of professionalism.

• Align internal and external resources to achieve objectives.

• Demonstrated attention to detail.

• Comprehend and interpret contract language.

• Identify problems independently and execute solutions.

• Quickly comprehend desired end-result, goal or objective and act to accomplish.

• Demonstrated effective decision-making.

• Solid working proficiency of all MS Office Products specifically, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Polished presentation skills.

• Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage complex contracts.

• Good project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Relationship-building skills.

• Familiarity with relevant legal framework and regulations related to site contracting within the CRO industry.

• Experience with relevant software tools and technologies used in site contracting, such as eTMF and contract management systems.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Senior Site Contract Lead requires 5+ years of experience in site contracting or combination with a related field within the CRO industry.
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., law, economics, business, social sciences), equivalent training or industry experience.
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