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Syneos Health · 2 days ago
Prin SSU Legal Contracts Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$80K/yr - $140K/yr
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Responsibilities
Establish, maintain, and update training material for BU on various aspects of site contracting process.
Develop expertise regarding sponsor processes, local country/site investigator contracts requirements within the team and BU.
Serve as mentor to less experienced members of the team.
Actively participate in higher-level discussions about overall company goals, functional objectives in the BU, and specific project aims.
Serve as a subject matter expert to help resolve global site contracting and legal issues arising from clinical trial set up activities.
Develop and maintain Company’s suite of investigator contract templates, confidentiality agreements, letter of authorization, and improve associated processes and procedures around this documentation.
Propose contracting solutions to issues that may arise during a project or contract life cycle, to enhance negotiation strategy and ensure deliverables are met.
Establish site contract project strategies around language parameters to reflect sponsor's master service agreement terms and required processes.
Identify possible contract or process operational risk and proactively work to provide solutions.
Establish strong working relationships with customers and internal project teams. Escalate deviations to senior management and resolve issues with Quality Assurance.
Serve as a resource to business development and represent site contracts at internal or customer meetings and input as required into site contracting RFPs.
Ensure site contract templates are drafted taking into consideration key operational aspects indicated in the relevant operational documents.
Establish strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contract templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.
Responsible for drafting, negotiating with Sponsor legal department or contract representatives and harmonizing site contract templates, site contract language, fallback templates and parameters.
Serve as the main point of contact for the sponsor legal to legal escalations to obtain timely approval of changes outside of approved negotiation and provide solutions to broker execution of contract-related documents for a given study.
Generate site contract documents of all variations, preparing contract management documentation for projects, and streamlining the contract/proposal or internal processes.
Support existing Company initiatives to streamline site contract negotiations. Introduce new initiatives to facilitate better contract negotiations and solutions and lead working groups to develop and improve aspects of site contracting strategy, policy, or documentation.
Create and maintain document status reports and updates department team members on a regular basis; ensure appropriate documentation is maintained for all exceptions.
Collaborate with internal and external legal, finance, and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.
Represent the Company at professional meetings or seminars.
Perform other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).
Qualification
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Required
BS degree in life sciences and/or English, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Legal degree or equivalent required.
Extensive experience in a CRO and related contract management, legal and/or site start-up experience.
Thorough knowledge of applicable regulations, drug development, and clinical project management procedures. Strong presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
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.
Strong leadership skills, ability to teach/mentor team members. Ability to coach employees to reach performance objectives. Strong background in issue resolution, meeting customer deliverables and driving best practices at organization or customer portfolio level.
Benefits
Company car or car allowance
Health benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision
Company match 401k
Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Eligibility to earn commissions/bonuses based on company and individual performance
Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time
Company
Syneos Health
Syneos Health, the only fully integrated end-to-end clinical and commercial solution organization.
Founded in 1985
10,001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Syneos Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (40)
2022 (45)
2021 (88)
2020 (76)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$524.65M2023-05-10Acquired· by Elliott Investment Management ($7.1B)
2021-03-01Post Ipo Secondary· $524.65M
2016-08-01Private Equity· Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Michael Bonello
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Brooks
COO
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