[Hiring] Clinical Trial Contract Manager @Sigma Systems, Inc.

Role Description

The Clinical Trial Contract Manager is responsible for assurance that clinical trial/site budget is of high quality and allocations are within fair market values.

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of Sites Fee Framework.
• Timely and accurate coordination, processing, monitoring, and administration of payments to sites according to budget and terms.
• Support management goals and objectives of the department.
• Prepares, negotiates, and executes a variety of agreements.
• Reviews contract language and prepares responses to negotiate contract modifications.
• Maintains contract files and systems.
• Maintains close working relationship with all Clinical Operations as well as Legal, Ethics & Compliance, and Clinical Development & Medical Affairs (CDMA).
• Ability to build clinical trial site budget and ensure it is of high quality and allocations are within fair market values (FMV).
• Analyze protocol flowcharts to create costing, payment strategies, and budget estimates and negotiation parameters within FMV.
• Drives development and maintenance of Site Fee Framework.
• Sets up, closes, re-opens, and submits payments within all grants.
• Effectively uses budget-specific and trial metrics and tools to report on, provide visibility into, and analyze performance and deliverables.
• Maintains a focused continuous improvement culture by identifying and executing strategies and priorities to enable the Budget group to deliver value and enhance overall operational effectiveness.
• Actively remains current with industry standards, trends, and competitive intelligence on budget best practices.
• Interfaces across Medical, all TAs, Finance, Legal, and external parties e.g., investigators, site personnel, third party vendors.
• Liaises within Clinical Trial Manager and TA Lead for review and approval of budget.
• Liaises with Clinical Finance/Accounting Department, Legal Department (if needed), and the local Head of Clin Ops and/or Clinical Operations Management for approval of payment related decisions.
• Represents Contract/Budget group processes on local/global working groups.
• Ensures commitment to customer-centric behaviors.
• Maintains high degree of responsiveness to both internal and external requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with minimum of five (5) years of relevant business experience in regulated pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry.
• Strong clinical background and budgeting understanding of cost drivers and benchmarks for clinical site budget.
• Ability to think strategically and initiate strong and persuasive contractual arguments to support business policies and objectives.
• Track record in setting priorities, organization, and problem-solving skills which support and enable sound decision making.
• Excellent customer service skills and high attention to detail.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and critical thinking to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations requiring new solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to be clear and concise in a variety of communication settings.
• Experience in working with systems, applications related to clinical and/or project management planning and reporting systems.
• Excellent knowledge of computer applications (Excel, Word, Access) is essential. Knowledge of Veeva is a plus.