Senior Contracts Lead (Sponsor dedicated) Greece

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.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Indicate the primary responsibilities critical to the job.

Manage investigator site and ancillary clinical contracts for clinical trials:

· Draft clinical contracts and perform direct negotiation with contractual entities in accordance with negotiation

playbooks.

· Maintain the Contract Lifecycle Management System and clinical contract tracking system in real-time.

· May serve as primary contact for Clinical Study Team and management regarding contract negotiation during

the lifecycle of the study.

· Attend operations meetings and provided status updates as required.

· Train and support team members on the clinical contracts process when necessary.

· Liaise with peers to drive forward clinical contracts.

· Perform consistent quality audits of work output and document knowledge base as needed.

· Contribute to clinical contract and Study Start-Up quality, systems, and process initiatives.

Negotiate Clinical Site Contracts & Budgets:

· Works directly with sites for all aspects of study start up and amendment negotiations within parameters,

including development of negotiation timeline.

· Monitors projected fully executed dates (via internal systems or CRO reports) and escalates via standard

pathways when at risk.

· Manage and own the contract process through its lifecycle from initial template stage to fully negotiated

contract.

· Perform direct negotiation of clinical contracts with contractual entities in accordance with negotiation

playbooks.

· Negotiate and manage site budgets that will assist in early site activation. For countries with national budget

templates, prepare budget using approved study budget on national template. Ensure consistency in site

payment schedules and terms to facilitate the payment system.

· Respond to queries related to contracts and budgets.

· Manage the contract escalation process to appropriate individuals, as needed.

· Establish good customer relations with sites starting with the primary point of contact for budgets contracts.

· Analyze contract trends using available tools and assist with developing team metrics with regard to contract

timelines.

Other:

· Develop written processes relevant to the scope of work listed above as needed.

· Contribute to team efforts for continuous process improvements.

· Contribute to Study Start-Up quality, systems, and process initiatives.

· Workflow Management

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

Indicate qualifications and skills that are necessary for performance of responsibilities including: education, relevant

experience, licenses, certifications and other job-related technical and managerial skills.

· BA/BS or equivalent or any relevant qualifying training

· Minimum five (5) years of global experience working in a Pharma, Biotech or CRO, finance and/or business

environment as a contract analyst/specialist.

· Experience negotiating contract language, payment terms and budgets.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Law or Accounting (Preferred)

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Details

Location

Greece

Experience

Min. 5 years

Senior Contracts Lead (Sponsor dedicated) Greece

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Indicate the primary responsibilities critical to the job.

Manage investigator site and ancillary clinical contracts for clinical trials:

· Draft clinical contracts and perform direct negotiation with contractual entities in accordance with negotiation

playbooks.

· Maintain the Contract Lifecycle Management System and clinical contract tracking system in real-time.

· May serve as primary contact for Clinical Study Team and management regarding contract negotiation during

the lifecycle of the study.

· Attend operations meetings and provided status updates as required.

· Train and support team members on the clinical contracts process when necessary.

· Liaise with peers to drive forward clinical contracts.

· Perform consistent quality audits of work output and document knowledge base as needed.

· Contribute to clinical contract and Study Start-Up quality, systems, and process initiatives.

Negotiate Clinical Site Contracts & Budgets:

· Works directly with sites for all aspects of study start up and amendment negotiations within parameters,

including development of negotiation timeline.

· Monitors projected fully executed dates (via internal systems or CRO reports) and escalates via standard

pathways when at risk.

· Manage and own the contract process through its lifecycle from initial template stage to fully negotiated

contract.

· Perform direct negotiation of clinical contracts with contractual entities in accordance with negotiation

playbooks.

· Negotiate and manage site budgets that will assist in early site activation. For countries with national budget

templates, prepare budget using approved study budget on national template. Ensure consistency in site

payment schedules and terms to facilitate the payment system.

· Respond to queries related to contracts and budgets.

· Manage the contract escalation process to appropriate individuals, as needed.

· Establish good customer relations with sites starting with the primary point of contact for budgets contracts.

· Analyze contract trends using available tools and assist with developing team metrics with regard to contract

timelines.

Other:

· Develop written processes relevant to the scope of work listed above as needed.

· Contribute to team efforts for continuous process improvements.

· Contribute to Study Start-Up quality, systems, and process initiatives.

· Workflow Management

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

Indicate qualifications and skills that are necessary for performance of responsibilities including: education, relevant

experience, licenses, certifications and other job-related technical and managerial skills.

· BA/BS or equivalent or any relevant qualifying training

· Minimum five (5) years of global experience working in a Pharma, Biotech or CRO, finance and/or business

environment as a contract analyst/specialist.

· Experience negotiating contract language, payment terms and budgets.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Law or Accounting (Preferred)

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information