Job Description Summary
Negotiates and finalizes Clinical Trial Agreement and Clinical Trial Amendments to include protocol budgets, PI changes, fixed costs, contract assignments, site/payee name change, terminations, and extensions, and IRB task orders.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Aid in developing Clinical Trial Agreements, contracts amendment concepts, techniques and standards with senior contract manager.
- Independently negotiate and execute Agreements and budget amendment with minimum supervision.
- Develop budget and negotiate cost for all contract amendment types and task orders.
- Collaborate cross functionally with Legal, Compliance, Patent and Insurance to negotiate Agreements and Amendments.
- Evaluate Investigational sites amendment requests from a fair market value perspective.
- Work with amendment requestor to ensure amendment integrity prior to negotiation.
- Maintain proactive communication with Payments team to ensure payment reconciliation prior to contract termination.
- Work closely with finance specialist to ensure completion of payment reconciliation prior to terminating sites contract.
- Liaison/collaborate with Clinical Study Manager, Investigational Sites, and study start up groups to expedite and finalize amendments.
Role Requirements:
- Degree in business administration, legal, finance, science, or related field or equivalent on-the-job experience may be considered.
- Four+ years of experience in pharmaceutical services with contract management and/or study start-up activities including contract negotiations and management.
- Budget negotiation experience.
- High degree of organizational, analytical, and team management skills.
- Computer literacy with document and spreadsheet applications. Ability to work on complex, multi-faceted projects.
- Excellent negotiation skills and vast knowledge of clinical trial agreements.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Novartis Compensation and Benefit Summary: The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $88,000- $132,000/year; however, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills, and abilities.
EEO Statement: The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers who are focused on building and advancing a culture of inclusion that values and celebrates individual differences, uniqueness, backgrounds and perspectives.
Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodations: The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.
Salary Range: $88,000.00 - $132,000.00
Skills Desired: Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, Compliance And Controls, Data Cleansing Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management Reporting, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Understanding Value Drivers.
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