Senior Associate Clinical Contracts & Budgets (33556)

Orion Group Life Sciences are looking for a Senior Associate Clinical Contracts & Budgets on behalf of our Multinational Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology client located in Breda. Initial 12-month contract, with high possibility of extension. This is a hybrid position.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical site contracting services to clinical study teams to support study start up and conduct activities.
• Manage end to end process for clinical site contracts and clinical trial related consulting agreements (including contracts, amendments and termination letters preparation, negotiation, escalation, translation, distribution, signature, archiving).
• Support site-related questions regarding invoice preparation with respect to submission of invoices in the Payment System of our client.
• Support resolution of contract issues.
• Support contracting with local vendors (translation vendors, printing vendors, …).
• Maintain contract tracking in appropriate systems.
• Manage Confidential Disclosure Agreement process.
• Identify opportunities and best practices with local and regional partners that will contribute to overall operational effectiveness.
• Ensure payments are made in accordance with contracts.
• Maintain payment data tracking in appropriate systems.
• Responsible for providing information for entry into systems.

Key Activities

• Negotiate site contracts from the contract templates using appropriate guidelines and collect necessary signatures for contract execution.
• Negotiate site budgets from base budget and payment milestones using appropriate guidelines.
• Escalate contract and budget issues to the appropriate stakeholders to ensure Fair Market Value compliance.
• Set up financial data, raise purchase orders and handle appropriate entries/requests into relevant financial and payment systems.
• Track contract progression using appropriate systems.
• Amend and terminate contracts as necessary throughout lifecycle of study.
• Store and archive contracts and budgets in appropriate systems.
• Maintain payment records and provide assistance with audit review records.
• Involvement in obtaining legal approval for changes to legal parts in consent documents.
• Responsible for the contracting process and/or point-of-contact for vendor for locally outsourced studies.
• Responsible for the Clinical Trials Insurance process.
• Participate in appropriate site/legal meetings as required to resolve contract issues.
• Participate in appropriate site/finance meetings as required to resolve payment issues.
• Maintain party information and contract activation in Contract Generation System.
• Approve or reject clinical invoices.
• Process and track Confidential Disclosure Agreements as appropriate.
• Manage contracting process with Clinical Trial Related Consulting Agreements.

Required Qualifications and skills

• Master's OR Bachelor's degree.
• Relevant experience in Legal, Negotiation and/or Finance.
• Working in a global environment.
• Experience in a Matrix environment.
• Knowledge of local contracting and payment processes in The Netherlands.
• Business English and Dutch language (written and oral communication).
• Attention to detail.
• Negotiation skills.
• Organizational Skills.
• Relationship management.
• Time management & prioritization.
• Flexibility.
• Data analysis and presentation skills.
• Problem solver.
• Working effectively in a team/matrix global environment.
• Good working knowledge of common software packages (e.g., Office 365 esp. Excel, SAP).

If you would like to have a confidential conversation regarding this opportunity please reach out to Tim Browaeys, tim.browaeys@orioneng.com or contact Tim on 0044 7593448607

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