Purpose
The Trial Capabilities Associate/Sr Associate, Budgets & Contracts provides clinical trial capabilities in support of clinical development.
The Associate, Budgets & Contracts is accountable to ensure the investigator sites meet requirements to enroll study participants into clinical trials from budgets and contracts perspective and support ongoing budgets and contracts activities during site maintenance and close-out.
The Associate, Budgets & Contracts is responsible for execution of the budget and contract, and activities related to clinical finance and records management.
The Associate, Budgets & Contracts will ensure inspection readiness through contribution to a complete, accurate and readily available Trial Master File.
Additional local responsibilities may be required as needed/appropriate for the local geography and/or to cover regional differences.
This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the job requirements at the time it was prepared.
The job requirements of any position may change over time and may include additional responsibilities not specifically described in the job description.
Consult with your supervision regarding your actual job responsibilities and any related duties that may be required for the position.
Clinical Trial Responsibilities
Initiate investigator site activities, including communicate and negotiate budgets and contracts with site personnel, service providers and internal teams, negotiate and obtain fully-executed contract, and effectively drive timelines aligned with company priorities
Responsible for meeting and exceeding goals for clinical trial initiation for development programs in the region of responsibility
Responsible for ensuring site initiation and maintenance activities comply with local/regional requirements, data privacy requirements and Lilly quality standards
Communicate directly with sites to enable start-up and maintain an active collaboration with sites regarding budgets and contracts activities during maintenance and close-out
Identify, communicate, and resolve issues related to budgets and contracts
Ensure country specific regulatory and data privacy requirements are incorporated into budget and contract documents and any other documents/systems
Leverage previous site / review board engagements to efficiently drive new work
Populate internal systems to ensure accuracy of trial / site performance
Understand and comply with procurements, legal and financial requirements and procedures
Populate relevant Trial Master Files and libraries for future reference
Provide feedback and shared learning for continuous improvement
Leverage trial prioritization
Anticipate and monitor dynamically changing priorities
Clinical Finance Responsibilities
Collect and administer financial data from contracting partners and vendors
Ensure finance specific requirements are administered in budget and contract documents
Ensure internal financial requirements are communicated to contracting partners and vendors
Ensure contracting partner and vendor financial requirements are communicated to internally
Support contracting partners, vendors and internal stakeholders during the payment process
Identify, communicate, and resolve issues related to payments
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Bachelor's degree preferably in a scientific, health related, engineering, economics or project management field, two years clinical research experience (CRO, sponsor or healthcare service provider) or relevant budget and contract negotiation experience preferred
Understanding of the overall clinical development paradigm and the importance of efficient site activation
Applied knowledge of project management processes and skills preferred
Appreciation of / experience in compliance-driven environment
Ability to learn and comply with financial and legal guidelines and policies (budget and contract)
Effective communication, negotiation, and problem solving skills
Self-management and organizational skills
Language Capabilities (English and another European language)
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