Senior Site Contract Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Act as the main contact for escalations related to CRO site contracts.

• Manage the intake, triage, and resolution of escalations from CRO partners.

• Ensure contract templates and approved fallback language are aligned with CRO partners.

• Facilitate negotiations led by CROs while managing sponsor-required exceptions.

• Address complex legal and operational contracting challenges.

• Evaluate proposed contract deviations and offer feedback to CROs.

• Raise any novel risks, policy inquiries, and non-standard positions to the Legal team.

• Collaborate with study teams, Legal, Procurement, CROs, and other relevant parties.

• Analyze the reasons behind escalations and their impacts on cycle times.

• Promote continuous improvement through enhanced fallback language, clarified decision rights, updated templates, and CRO training.

• Oversee escalation governance and knowledge management.

• Record decisions, reasoning, and outcomes.

• Provide guidance on negotiations, best practices, and escalation pathways.

• Assess escalated terms for legal, financial, and operational risks.

• Ensure compliance with sponsor requirements and relevant standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will be taken into account.

• Capability to manage escalations related to CRO site contracts.

• Expertise in contract negotiation and escalation management.

• Skill in assessing contract deviations and suggesting acceptable alternatives.

• Ability to evaluate legal, financial, and operational risks.

• Proficient in collaborating with CROs, study teams, Legal, Procurement, and other stakeholders.

• Familiarity with contract templates, playbooks, fallback language, and decision-making pathways.

• Competence in analyzing escalation drivers and their effects on cycle times.

• Ability to document decisions, rationales, and outcomes for governance and knowledge management.

• Proficiency in applying relevant standards and requirements.

• Ability to consult with Legal when facing novel risks, policy inquiries, or non-standard positions needing guidance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for career development and advancement.

• Supportive and engaged management.

• Technical and therapeutic area training provided.

• Peer recognition and a total rewards program.

• Company car or car allowance available.

• Medical, dental, and vision health benefits offered.

• Company match for 401(k).

• Eligibility to take part in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Opportunity to earn commissions/bonuses based on both company and individual performance.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy.

• Sick leave provided.