Contract Specialist

• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize agreements with study sites
• Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms, and conditions within approved parameters
• Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approval authority, contractual processes, client expectations, budgetary guidance, templates, and established procedures
• Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately
• Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for investigator contract negotiations
• Coordinate with internal functional departments on site-startup activities, contractual activities, and mutually agreed timelines
• Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation
• Achieve target cycle times for site activations
• Escalate out-of-parameter issues through established channels

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• 2–5 years of previous experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written) in English and local language
• Good understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws
• Ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation
• General understanding of business and financial principles related to service agreements
• Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
• Attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills
• Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs
• Ability to organize competing priorities and review contractual risks and issues
• Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications
• Customer-focused communication, problem solving, and collaboration skills
• Ability to work upright and/or stationary for 6–8 hours per day
• Ability to perform repetitive hand movements and frequent mobility
• Ability to lift and carry objects, luggage, and a laptop up to 15–20 lbs.
• Regular and consistent attendance
• Ability to perform under stress and multitask