kps life · 2 weeks ago
Manager, Site Contracts
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
7+ years expKPS Life is looking to hire a Manager, Site Contracts with significant experience in site negotiation and budget development within the pharmaceutical clinical trial space. This role is responsible for drafting, negotiating, and executing global site contracts, ensuring high quality and compliance while maintaining productive relationships with stakeholders.
Health CareMedicalWellness
Hiring Manager
Brian Jardon
Responsibilities
Manage specified group systems and processes
Fine-tune and enhance the SMO contracting approach and handle all SMO agreements in a manner that drives efficiencies and optimizes costs
Assist with on-boarding, training, and mentoring peers (including handling delegated tasks as needed, e.g., first-level budget escalations)
Provide subject matter expertise for assigned therapeutic areas and support high priority, complex studies
Assist with updating the site contracting processes
Engage with the study teams from early planning throughout the end-to-end contracting lifecycle
Develop and enhance relationships with internal clients, internal stakeholders, vendors, and sites
Partner with colleagues in the Law Department and other stakeholder groups
Ensure that vendors are enhancing site relationships and conducting issue resolution of moderate to high complexity
Meet with study teams regularly and prioritize assignments
Manage and address changes to study scope, ensuring timely contract amendment and implementation
Lead ongoing, group-specific process improvements
Single point of contact for internal client, vendors, and site counterparts for assigned studies
Qualification
Required
Significant experience in site negotiation and budget development within the pharmaceutical clinical trial space
Demonstrates a strong knowledge and expertise of site budget and contract negotiations that drives new business and executive decisions
Makes decisions on complex issues regarding work approach for project components and completion of team tasks and responsibilities
Works on unique and complex assignments/projects independently that require independent judgment in evaluating criteria to obtain results where no precedent is available
Guides and mentors staff at all levels and provides advice to senior management on complex/strategic issues
Ability to effectively manage and maintain systems and tools
Ability to mitigate and drive solutions regarding investigator site contracting challenges
Ability to influence vendors and internal stakeholders
Required minimum of 7 years of direct experience with clinical site contracting and budgeting at a biopharmaceutical company, or vendor managing broader systems and processes, and participating in cross-stakeholder initiatives
Bachelor's Degree required
Preferred
J.D. or MBA
Company
kps life
KPS Life is a functional service solution that improves efficiency, lowers trial costs, and gives the sponsor strategic control.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$3.5M2025-06-11Undisclosed· $3.5M
2021-02-26Debt Financing
2021-01-12Private Equity
Leadership Team
Kevin Duffy
Chief Commercial Officer
Recent News
2023-06-05
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