Clinical Trial Contract Manager - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title: Clinical Trial Contract Manager - Remote / Telecommute

Job Location: Ridgefield, CT

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $59.55hr - $64.55hr

Job Overview:

The Clinical Trial Contract Manager is responsible for ensuring that clinical trial and site budgets are of high quality and allocations fall within fair market values. This role oversees the development and maintenance of the Sites Fee Framework, as well as the timely and accurate coordination, processing, monitoring, and administration of payments to sites according to agreed budgets and terms. The successful candidate will support the management goals and objectives of the department.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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 relationships with Clinical Operations as well as Legal, Ethics & Compliance, and Clinical Development & Medical Affairs.
• Builds clinical trial site budgets, ensuring high quality and allocations within fair market values (FMV); analyzes protocol flowcharts to create costing, payment strategies, budget estimates, and negotiation parameters within FMV.
• Drives the development and maintenance of the 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 Therapeutic Areas, Finance, Legal, and external parties, including investigators, site personnel, and third-party vendors.
• Liaises with the Clinical Trial Manager and TA Lead for review and approval of budgets.
• Liaises with the Clinical Finance/Accounting Department, Legal Department, and the local Head of Clinical Operations Management for approval of payment-related decisions and maintains proper documentation.
• Represents Contract/Budget group processes on local and global working groups.
• Ensures commitment to customer-centric behaviors.
• Maintains a high degree of responsiveness to both internal and external requests.

Skills:

• Strong clinical background and budgeting understanding of cost drivers and benchmarks for clinical site budgets.
• 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 that 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to be clear and concise in a variety of communication settings.
• Experience working with systems and applications related to clinical or project management planning and reporting systems.
• Excellent knowledge of computer applications including Excel, Word, and Access. Knowledge of Veeva is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor s degree with 5+ years of relevant business experience in the regulated pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities