Job Overview

This role serves as a Senior Contract Associate and is a sponsor dedicated role. You will be in charge of overseeing the preparation, negotiation, and finalisation of clinical trial agreements and budgets in compliance with FMV, legal, and regulatory requirements. You will act as the primary liaison with sites and internal stakeholders while managing timelines, maintaining accurate tracking, and supporting contract amendments and template updates.

Essential Functions

• Develop Coordinate the development of investigator grants and estimates, contracting strategies and proposal text to support the proposal development process.

• Develop contract language, payment language and budget templates as required as applicable to the position.

• Utilize and maintain contracting systems, tools, processes, and training materials for selected sponsors, studies or multi-protocol programs according to the Scope of Work and Project Plan, within the agreed project strategy.

• Ensure collaboration, including communication with sponsors, stakeholders and RSU regions and countries as applicable to the position, to successfully deliver the agreed project scope in compliance with sponsor requirements and/or the RSU Management Plan.

• Provide specialist legal, operational and financial contracting support to the Study Teams, as applicable to site agreements to facilitate efficient business development and initiation and maintenance of clinical trials, whilst enabling compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Assist with the creation and/or review of core scientific, technical and administrative documentation to support business development and enable study initiation and maintenance, as required.

• Contribute to the collection, interpretation, analysis and dissemination of accurate contracting intelligence to support assigned studies and the wider company, as required.

• Ensure overall contracting efficiency and adherence to project timelines and financial goals as applicable to site agreements.

• Report contracting performance metrics and out of scope contracting activities as required.

• Work with Quality Management to ensure appropriate contract management and quality standards. Mentor and coach colleagues as required including the delivery of training materials as required.

• Deliver presentations to clients as required. As applicable, e Ensure accurate completion and maintenance of internal systems (with emphasis on CTMS), databases, tracking tools, timelines and project plans.

• May take a proactive role in developing long standing relationships with preferred IQVIA clients/customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Related field

• 5 years relevant sponsor or clinical research organization clinical site contracting experience, including demonstrable global and/or regional experience acting as a contract negotiator.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

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