[Hiring] Senior Site Contracts Specialist @Worldwide Clinical Trials

Role Description

Join a global Contract Resource Organization (CRO) where innovation meets purpose. At Worldwide Clinical Trials, we're driven by a shared commitment to improving lives through high-quality clinical research. Our teams are empowered to think creatively, take ownership, and deliver meaningful work that helps bring life-changing therapies to patients around the world.

As a Senior Site Contracts Specialist, you will manage site contract and budget negotiations from initial drafting through execution, balancing site needs with sponsor requirements, regulatory expectations, and agreed parameters. You will also serve as a subject matter expert, partnering with sites, investigators, sponsors, Legal, Data Privacy, regulatory colleagues, and study teams to resolve contracting challenges, manage risk, and continuously improve site contracting processes.

This is a remote role open to candidates based in Romania and Finland. You will collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones. Travel is not required.

What You'll Do

• Lead the preparation, negotiation, finalization, and execution of Clinical Trial Agreements, site agreements, amendments, ancillary agreements, and associated budgets.
• Develop country contract templates, contract and budget plans, investigator grant budgets, and other contracting documentation required to support clinical trials.
• Negotiate complex contract language and study budgets with assigned sites, resolving issues efficiently and escalating requests that fall outside preapproved parameters.
• Partner with sponsors, clinical sites, investigators, Legal, Data Privacy, regulatory colleagues, and study teams to progress agreements and address contracting requirements.
• Identify contracting risks and non-responsive sites, develop mitigation approaches, and escalate issues appropriately to support study timelines.
• Ensure agreements and budgets are complete, accurate, compliant, and quality checked before signature, distribution, and filing.
• Provide clear visibility of negotiation status, contracting timelines, risks, and priorities through accurate, real-time tracking and stakeholder communication.
• Act as a site contracts expert on assigned projects, supporting contract templates, master budgets, TMF structure, contracting strategies, and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business administration, finance, science, or a related field.
• 3 to 5 years of Contract Specialist experience in the clinical research, pharmaceutical, or CRO industry.
• Excellent proficiency in English, both written and verbal.
• Strong experience negotiating complex clinical site contracts and budgets, including resolving contract issues and identifying and mitigating contracting risks.
• Knowledge and understanding of ICH and GCP Guidelines, local clinical trial legislation and regulatory requirements, and relevant international regulatory requirements.
• Strong understanding of clinical trial budgeting and financial principles, with the ability to review costs, negotiate budgets, and interpret financial information.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, analytical, and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex contract terms clearly and work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong project and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize competing demands, manage multiple site contracts, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy under pressure.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and contract management tools, alongside a working understanding of legal terminology and principles relevant to clinical trial contracts.

Discover the Difference

We love knowing that someone is going to have a better life because of the work we do. Discover the Difference at Worldwide Clinical Trials. Explore additional opportunities on our careers page, visit http://www.worldwide.com/careers , or connect with us on LinkedIn .