Job Title: Associate / Senior Associate - Clinical Trials
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced professional to join our team in a role that involves providing clinical trial capabilities in support of clinical development. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in clinical research, budgeting, and contract negotiation.
Key Responsibilities:
* Initiate investigator site activities, including communicating and negotiating budgets and contracts with site personnel, service providers, and internal teams.
* Negotiate and obtain fully executed contracts, driving timelines aligned with company priorities.
* Ensure site initiation and maintenance activities comply with local and regional requirements, data privacy requirements, and Lilly quality standards.
* Identify, communicate, and resolve issues related to budgets and contracts.
* Populate internal systems to ensure accuracy of trial/site performance, understand and comply with procurements, legal and financial requirements and procedures.
* Provide feedback and shared learning for continuous improvement.
* Leverage trial prioritization and anticipate 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.
* Support contracting partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders during the payment process.
* Identify, communicate, and resolve issues related to payments.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree preferably in a scientific, health-related, engineering, economics, or project management field.
* Two years of clinical research experience (CRO, sponsor, or healthcare service provider) or relevant budget and contract negotiation experience.
* Understanding of the overall clinical development paradigm and the importance of efficient site activation.
* Appreciation of/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 in English and Spanish.
Benefits:
* A supportive and inclusive work environment.
* Competitive salary and benefits package.
* Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
* A collaborative and dynamic team environment.
Others:
Lilly is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We cater to all dimensions, ensuring the inclusion of all ethnicities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, generations, sexuality, visible and invisible disabilities, and gender.