Sarah Cannon Research Institute · 4 hours ago

Contract Analyst

Tennessee, United States

Full-time, Contract

Remote

Entry Level

1+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Reviewing clinical trial agreements, contract amendments, confidentiality agreements, and nondisclosure agreements received from pharmaceutical sponsors or contract research organizations

Collaborating with Sarah Cannon Legal and other departments to ensure that Sarah Cannon's interests are clearly identified

Communicating with clinics, physician groups, hospitals, and other patient treatment facilities represented by Sarah Cannon to ensure that their interests are clearly identified

Negotiating with pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations and revising agreements to serve both Sarah Cannon's and its affiliated sites' interests in final contracts

Engaging in regular, professional contact with contracting parties to ensure understanding of all parties and to make certain that progress continues toward full resolution of unresolved issues

Revising contracts to include and track changes

Keeping Budgets & Contracts management informed of contract issues, breakdown of negotiations, and contract timing, escalating matters that require higher-level involvement

Cooperating with other Sarah Cannon departments, leaders, and executives that are affected by contracts and contract execution timelines to ensure clear understanding of statuses, issues affecting final execution, and likely timing of execution

Posting regular updated statuses in the designated tracking database

Coordinating with Budget Analysts to ensure that budgets are completed before scheduled contract execution

Responding promptly to questions from Budgets & Contracts management to secure approval of contracts before contract execution

Communicating regularly with Sarah Cannon Legal to ensure that contract language is current with changing legal requirements, that sponsor and site concerns are considered, and that contract language is altered to fully comply with current Sarah Cannon philosophy, policies, guidelines, and practices

Assisting various levels of management and executives with issues related to contracts

Monitoring timing of contract negotiations and ensuring that established timelines to contract execution are being consistently met

Representing to affiliated sites the services offered by Sarah Cannon Budgets & Contracts, the value added, and the processes that are required for a productive relationship

Complying with all Sarah Cannon standard operating procedures and guidelines, Good Clinical Practice, and regulations and guidelines from the International Conference on Harmonization

Ensuring strict confidentiality of proprietary information

Engaging in continuous improvement activities that lead to greater efficiency, more timely contract execution, and higher quality; and implementing ideas that are likely to have a favorable impact

Participating in departmental and cross-functional meetings

Attending conferences related to contract standards and industry practices, as approved by Sarah Cannon management

Completing other assigned duties and projects

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