Trial Capabilities Associate, Budgets

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Eli Lilly Cork is made up of a diverse team of over 2000 employees across 60 nationalities who deliver innovative solutions across a variety of Business Service functions including Finance, Information Technology, Medical, Clinical Trials and more. The Cork campus offers a premium workspace with flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension and life assurance benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies and on-site parking. In-house People Development services, Educational Assistance, and our wellbeing initiatives are part of the holistic benefits that enhance the career experience for our colleagues. Eli Lilly Cork is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) with pillars focused on EnAble, embRACE, LGBTQ+ & Ally and GIN-Gender Inclusion Network, and collaboration with the Access Lilly initiative to promote an accessible and inclusive environment.

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Trial Capabilities Associate, Budgets & Contracts provides clinical trial capabilities in support of clinical development. The Associate is accountable to ensure investigator sites meet requirements to enroll study participants from budgets and contracts perspectives and to support ongoing budgets and contracts activities during site maintenance and close-out. The Associate will execute budgets and contracts and related clinical finance and records management activities, and contribute to a complete, accurate, and readily available Trial Master File to ensure inspection readiness. Additional local responsibilities may be required as needed for local geography or regional differences.

1. 1. Clinical Trial Responsibilities
2. Initiate investigator site activities, communicate and negotiate budgets and contracts with site personnel, service providers and internal teams, obtain fully executed contracts, and drive timelines aligned with company priorities
3. Meet and strive to exceed goals for clinical trial initiation for development programs in the region of responsibility
4. Ensure site initiation and maintenance activities comply with local/regional requirements, data privacy requirements and Lilly quality standards
5. Communicate with sites to enable start-up and maintain active collaboration regarding budgets and contracts during maintenance and close-out
6. Identify, communicate, and resolve issues related to budgets and contracts
7. Ensure country-specific regulatory and data privacy requirements are incorporated into budget and contract documents
8. Leverage previous site/review board engagements to efficiently drive new work
9. Populate internal systems to ensure accuracy of trial/site performance
10. Understand and comply with procurements, legal and financial requirements and procedures
11. Populate relevant Trial Master Files and libraries for future reference
12. Provide feedback and shared learning for continuous improvement
13. Leverage trial prioritization and anticipate dynamically changing priorities
14. 2. Clinical Finance Responsibilities
15. Collect and administer financial data from contracting partners and vendors
16. Ensure finance-specific requirements are administered in budget and contract documents
17. Ensure internal financial requirements are communicated to contracting partners and vendors
18. Ensure contracting partner and vendor financial requirements are communicated internally
19. Support contracting partners, vendors and internal stakeholders during the payment process
20. Identify, communicate, and resolve issues related to payments

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree preferably in a scientific, health-related, engineering, economics or project management field
2. Two years clinical research experience (CRO, sponsor or healthcare service provider) or relevant budget and contract negotiation experience preferred
3. Understanding of the overall clinical development paradigm and the importance of efficient site activation
4. Appreciation of / experience in a compliance-driven environment
5. Ability to learn and comply with financial and legal guidelines and policies (budget and contract)
6. Effective communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
7. Self-management and organizational skills
8. Language Capabilities: English and French

Other Information/Additional Preferences:

1. Applied knowledge of project management processes and skills preferred

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