[Hiring] Site Contract Specialist II / Contract Manager II @Syneos Health

Role Description

Site Contract Specialist-II / Contract Manager II (Sponsor Dedicated/ Remote - Mexico, Argentina, Brazil)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Job Responsibilities

• Review contract language and budgets for completeness and accuracy, and ensure that corrections are appropriately made and documented.
• Maintain internal project trackers with accurate and timely information to support overall transparency.
• Leverage fallback language provided by sponsor legal to effectively and accurately negotiate site contracting language.
• Negotiate Study budget utilizing the approved budget (medium and high) within approval parameters before escalation is required. Follow appropriate escalation pathway and processes.
• Attend weekly internal and external progress meetings and provide updates and next steps on active contract negotiations.
• Collaborate with primary stakeholders to ensure goals and priorities are aligned as it relates to contract execution date and site activation timelines.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders throughout negotiating process.
• Identifying contractual or operational risks early and proactively driving solutions.
• Prepares Contract and Budget Escalations as required.
• Responsible for drafting and finalizing documents for Studies-start up (templates, Start up plans, etc.).
• Responsible for preparing and leading the Kick-Off Meeting with the Study Team.
• Responsible for scheduling other contract and budget prep and overview meetings.
• Responsible for preparing the final contracts (once negotiations are complete and escalations approved).
• Participate in pilot and stretch projects as they align with role and sponsor initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Public Health, Life Sciences, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrated experience independently managing:
  • Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs)
  • CTA Amendments
  • Site budget negotiations
  • Contract lifecycle management with minimal oversight
• Strong understanding of:
  • CTA drafting and negotiation
  • Contract templates and fallback language
  • Budget development and negotiation strategies
  • Clinical trial start-up processes
• Experience maintaining negotiation status and documentation within Sponsor clinical trial tracking systems.
• Excellent understanding of Phase II-IV clinical trials, ICH-GCP, and clinical development processes.
• Strong project management, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Exceptional negotiation, communication, and relationship-building abilities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

Requirements

• Previous experience supporting a Sponsor-Dedicated/FSP model.
• Leadership or mentoring experience (Senior level).
• CRO experience.
• Experience supporting process improvement initiatives within Site Start-Up or Site Contracts.
• Experience-Leveling:
  • SCS-I/Contract Manager 1: Up to two (2) years of clinical research, site contracts and budgets, or related experience required.
  • SCS-II/Contract Manager 2: Minimum of one (1) year of direct site contract and budget negotiations within CRO, site or pharma company required.
  • Sr. SCS/Contract Manager 3: Minimum of two (2) years of direct site contract and budget negotiation required. Demonstrates strong skillset in overall contract and budget management/oversight and has a minimum of one (1) year of progressive experience leading site contract negotiations as client-facing point of contact within an industry sponsored clinical trial setting.

Benefits

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with.