FSP Bench Contract Specialist

• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize agreements with clinical study sites
• Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters
• Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, and client expectations
• Follow budgetary guidance, templates, and established processes
• 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 to align site startup and contractual activities
• Align contract negotiations with timelines and the critical path for site activation
• Achieve target cycle times for site activations
• Escalate out-of-parameter issues according to established guidelines and processes
• Liaise with sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships
• Ensure quality, objectivity, and risk analysis in contract delivery

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• 2–5 years of comparable experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax, and stamp laws
• Ability to apply basic investigator grant negotiation principles
• Understanding of business and financial principles related to service agreements
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language
• Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and decision-making skills
• Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement
• Ability to work independently and 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 frequent mobility, bending, twisting, occasional crouching and stooping
• Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs
• Regular and consistent attendance