Contract and budget Associate Fluent Italian/ French/ Dutch/ Flemish Full Time Permanent

Location: Cork, Ireland ( Relocation package available)

The Contract and Budget Associate is responsible for overseeing specific clinical contract and budget negotiation activities.  The primary responsibilities include providing contract and budget process guidance, conducting contract and budget negotiations, conducting contract analyses, facilitating compliance, and pursuing contracting process improvements.  The Contract and Budget Associate will also be expected to balance the requirements of ensuring appropriate controls with a streamlined, customer-focused, and timely contracting process.

Key Responsibilities:

Contract and Budget Negotiations:

The Associate plays a critical role in communicating and negotiating contracts and budgets with the appropriate site, team, or affiliate personnel, including:

• Communicate company’s position on various contract and budget issues, identify relationship-building opportunities, secure site contracts and budgets, collect site feedback, and facilitate communication with various personnel.  This responsibility includes assisting Trial Capabilities Associates with difficult contract and budget negotiations and significant interventions, and follow-up will be necessary to facilitate this objective
• Communicate and negotiate more complex contracts and budgets, including Phase I, PET Studies, Oncology Cooperatives, Oncology Networks, and/or Endocrine portfolio sites; and

TC Process Improvement and Training:

The Associate will be responsible for maintaining and conducting contract and budget-related training and mentorship

• Develop and implement training for new contract and budget associates and customers
• Create, maintain, and distribute contract and budget templates, process documentation, and contract and budget -specific documentation (such as the Legal Guidance Document,) as the contract process owner; and

The Associate also provides clinical trial contract guidance to other business partners, including:

• Develop process documentation.
• Facilitate quality, speed and value through information sharing, , business partnership, and assurance that all guidance is aligned with company’s policies, clinical processes, and appropriate guidance;
• Developing study specific contracting and budgeting strategy with the internal stakeholders
• Serve as the primary contact and process owner for interactions between Trial Capabilities and organisation’s Legal/Finance personnel related to process changes, documentation requirements, and site contracting and budgeting issues.
• Assure that contractual terms and provisions follow agreed study level process, strategies, conformance to applicable laws & precedents. Arrange legal input where needed.

Contract and Budget Process Improvements-

The Associate is responsible for identifying and implementing improvements to the contracting and budgeting processes.

• Accountable for standardizing and streamlining contract and budget negotiation activities, as well as using metrics to drive improvement throughout the entire contracting process.
• Anticipate changes by evaluating issues and opportunities, both internal and external, and making recommendations to TC management.
• Gather contractual framework intelligence at site and country level

Minimum Qualification/Skills Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably from legal/health science/finance/engineering field)
• Min. 3-5 years of experience negotiating contracts and budgets

• Experience negotiating privacy clauses with clinical research sites a plus