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, budgetary guidance, templates, and client expectations
• 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 with agreed timelines
• Align contract negotiations with 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
• Deliver contracts with quality, objectivity, and risk analysis

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• 2–5 years of previous relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, and directly related experience
• 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
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language
• Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters, with appropriate oversight
• Attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills
• Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement
• 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
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment
• Good organizational and time management skills
• 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, occasional crouching/stooping, bending/twisting, and light to moderate lifting/carrying of 15–20 lbs
• Regular and consistent attendance