Job Title: Clinical Trial Budget Associate
The role of a Clinical Trial Budget Associate is crucial in ensuring the smooth execution of clinical trials. This individual will be responsible for managing trial budgets, contracts, and related financial activities.
Main Responsibilities:
* Initiate investigator site activities, including communicating and negotiating budgets and contracts with site personnel and internal teams.
* Meet and exceed goals for clinical trial initiation for development programs in the region of responsibility.
* Ensure 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.
Qualifications and Requirements:
* 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 preferred.
* Understanding of the overall clinical development paradigm and the importance of efficient site activation.
* 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 French language).
Benefits:
We offer a premium workspace across our campus, complete with flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension, and life assurance benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies, and on-site parking. In-house People Development services, Educational Assistance, and our 'Live Your BEST Life' wellbeing initiatives are just some of the holistic benefits that enhance the career experience for our colleagues.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
We cater for all dimensions ensuring inclusion of all ethnicities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, generations, sexuality, visible and invisible disabilities, and gender. We have four pillars: EnAble, embRACE, LGBTQ+ & Ally, and GIN-Gender Inclusion Network. EnAble, our pillar for people with disabilities and those that care for them, partners with the Access Lilly initiative to make our physical and digital environment accessible and inclusive for all.
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