Sponsor Dedicated Sr Site Contracts Lead - EMEA

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Sponsor Dedicated Sr Site Contracts Lead - EMEA Updated: February 5, 2025Location: Australia-Asia Pacific - AUS-Home-BasedJob ID: 25001552 Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives. Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. Job Responsibilities Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators. Serves as subject matter expert within the organization equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues, and escalation point within the Company for internal customers to seek assistance. Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTAs) on a study level and drives CTA document finalization and execution, including contractual language & terms, financial attachments, and investigator grant budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators. Provides oversight of contact & budget negotiations status and manages escalation of out-of-parameter queries on budgetary and contractual requests to sponsor decision-makers in all regions of study conduct. Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations. Acts as first-line subject matter expert for all such CTA elements on assigned studies for internal and sponsor stakeholders alike. Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies—including forecast of site-specific contractual execution timelines with as much accuracy as possible. Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators. Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters and processes. Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contractual templates fit into the global strategy set for the program. Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions. Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis. Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues. Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms. Identifies best practices, investigates root causes of fundamental issues and problems for projects and recommends solutions. Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates. May support BU and organization through help desk and other defined pathways to resolve and deescalate issues. May identify and lead internal team training and/or process improvement initiatives. Participates in business development presentations as a subject matter expert in site contracts and investigator budget management within the Company. Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%). Qualifications What we’re looking for BS degree in life sciences, a health related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong experience in a CRO/pharmaceutical industry and related clinical trial expertise. Thorough knowledge of applicable regulations, drug development and clinical project management procedures. Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, outlook and Internet. Ability to handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines, delivering high quality work in a dynamic environment. Above-average attention to detail, effective oral/written communication skills along with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines. Strong leadership skills, ability to teach/mentor team members. Strong background in issue resolution and driving best practices. The annual base salary for this position ranges from $67,000 to $115,000. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health. Additional Information: Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. 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