Sr Site Contracts Lead, Sponsor Dedicated. Open to EMEA. Homebased

4 weeks ago


ireland Syneos Health, Inc. Full time
Sr Site Contracts Lead, Sponsor Dedicated. Open to EMEA. Homebased

Updated: January 30, 2025
Location: Ireland-Europe - IRL-Home-Based
Job ID:25001276

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

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 accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Job responsibilities

  • Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators.
  • Serves as subject matter expert within the organization equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues, and escalation point within the Company for internal customers to seek assistance.
  • Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA´s) on a study level and drives CTA document finalization and execution, including contractual language & terms, financial attachments, and investigator grant budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators.
  • Provides oversight of contact & budget negotiations status and manages escalation of out-of-parameter queries on budgetary and contractual requests to sponsor decision-makers in all regions of study conduct. Provides consultation during escalation of out-of-parameter queries as needed.
  • Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations. Provides consultation on potential risks and mitigation tactics for negotiation issues pertaining to overall study start-up needs.
  • Acts as first-line subject matter expert for all such CTA elements on assigned studies for internal and sponsor stakeholders alike. Advises stakeholders on issue resolution within the context of assigned studies. May seek additional support from internal support structures as needed.
  • Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies—including forecast of site-specific contractual execution timelines with as much accuracy as possible—and coordinates with internal study team stakeholders to ensure that CTA strategy is aligned with overall study start-up plans and expectations overall. Manages expectations of internal and sponsor study team regarding global CTA negotiations for assigned studies.
  • Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators including roll-up of all status updates to regular team forum. Participates in regular study calls to facilitate communication as needed.
  • Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters and processes within Company standards in order to drive successful negotiation of contracts and budgets.
  • Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contractual templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.
  • Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions. Establishes strong working relationships with customer and internal project teams. Escalates deviations to senior management and is equipped to resolve issues with Quality Assurance.
  • Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis; ensures appropriate documentation is maintained.
  • Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.
  • Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms within corporate and industry standards during negotiation with sites.
  • Identifies best practices, investigates root causes of fundamental issues and problems for projects and recommends solutions.
  • Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates and ensures quality of teamwork products.
  • May support BU and organization through help desk and other defined pathways to resolve and deescalate issues.
  • May identify and lead internal team training and/or process improvement initiatives.
  • Participates in business development presentations as a subject matter expert in site contracts and investigator budget management within the Company.
  • Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

  • BS degree in life sciences, a health related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Strong experience in a CRO/pharmaceutical industry and related clinical trial expertise (Study Coordinator, CRA, Pharmacy, Nursing, Healthcare Administration) or site start-up experience.
  • Thorough knowledge of applicable regulations, drug development and clinical project management procedures. Strong presentation, documentation and interpersonal skills.
  • Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, outlook and Internet.
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines, delivering high quality work in a dynamic environment.
  • Above-average attention to detail, effective oral/written communication skills along with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines.
  • Strong leadership skills, ability to teach/mentor team members. Ability to coach employees to reach performance objectives.
  • Strong background in issue resolution, meeting customer deliverables and driving best practices at organization or customer portfolio level.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we take into consideration transferable skills from previous roles.

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of this website, please contact us at: Email: jobs@syneoshealth.com One of our staff members will work with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.

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