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Sr. Associate, Clinical Contracts & Budgets

Remote, CA

Posted: 09/04/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Clinical Contracts/Finance Job Number: 3985

Job Description

As Sr. Associate, Clinical Contracts & Budgets, you will provide clinical site contracting services to clinical study teams to support study start-up and conduct activities.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage end to end process for clinical site contracts and clinical trial related consulting agreements (including contracts, amendments and termination letters preparation, negotiation, escalation, translation, distribution, signature, archiving).
  • Support site-related questions regarding invoice preparation with respect to submission of invoices in Amgen Payment System (eGPS)
  • Support resolution of contract and budget issues
  • Support contracting with local GSO vendors
  • Maintain contract tracking in appropriate systems 
  • Manage Confidential Disclosure Agreement process
  • Identify opportunities and best practices with local and regional partners that will contribute to overall operational effectiveness
  • Ensure payments are made in accordance with contracts
  • Maintain payment data tracking in appropriate systems
  • Responsible for providing information for entry into systems
  • Negotiate site contracts from the contract templates using appropriate guidelines, and collect necessary signatures for contract execution
  • Negotiate site budgets from base budget and payment milestones using appropriate guidelines; complete final budget for inclusion in the contract
  • Escalate contract and budget issues to Legal or Clinical Pricing & Payments Group and GCPM as appropriate to ensure Fair Market Value compliance
  • Set up financial data, raise purchase orders and handle appropriate entries/requests into relevant financial and payment systems
  • Support Clinical Pricing & Payments Group in setting up sites for eGPS, ClinCard or legacy systems. 
  • Track contract progression using appropriate systems
  • Amend and terminate contracts as necessary throughout lifecycle of study
  • Store and archive contracts and budgets in appropriate systems
  • Maintain payment records and provide assistance with audit review records
  • Responsible for reviewing and approving, with Law guidance, applicable changes within ICF part 2.
  • Responsible for the contracting process and/or point-of-contact for vendor for locally outsourced studies
  • Responsible for the Clinical Trials Insurance process
  • Participate in appropriate site/legal meetings as required to resolve contract issues
  • Participate in appropriate site/finance meetings as required to resolve payment issues
  • Maintain party information and contract activation in Contract Generation System
  • Approve or reject clinical invoices
  • Process and track Confidential Disclosure Agreements as appropriate
  • Manage contracting process with Clinical Trial Related Consulting Agreements
  • Manage all study-related Site payments not managed by Clinical Pricing & Payments Group
Requirements / Qualifications:
  • Recent (within last 3 years) contract and budget negotiation experience in a clinical trial setting.
  • Directly involved with the negotiation of terms for various contract types (CTA, CDA, Master Agreements, etc) and site budgets. We want to make sure they are not just a “middle man” passing the contract from clinical trial site/sponsor to legal.
The following competencies:
  • Attention to detail
  • Negotiation skills
  • Organizational Skills
  • Relationship management
  • Time management & prioritization
  • Flexibility
  • Written and oral communication skills
  • Good working knowledge of common software packages (e.g. Office 365 esp. Excel, Word, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, SAP)
  • Data analysis and presentation skills
  • Problem solver
  • Team work
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