Global Site Contracts Specialist

7257 Syneos Health Argentina S.A.; Argentina; Remote; ARS 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health Argentina S.A. is seeking a Site Contracts Specialist with experience in site agreements and budget negotiation to support multi-country clinical trials across ARG/CHL/MX.

The role involves negotiating, drafting and reviewing site-level CTAs, budgets, and related documents, coordinating with SSU and Legal, and ensuring timely contract execution. Strong knowledge of clinical development, contract templating, and vendor management is required.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Moderate contracts management experience that includes experience in a contract research organization or pharmaceutical industry.
• Management experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the clinical development process and legal and contracting parameters.
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Customer focused and ability to manage challenging priorities and to remain flexible and adaptable in stressful situations.
• Excellent understanding of clinical trial process across Phases II-IV and ICH GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials.
• Produce site-specific contracts from country clinical trial agreement (CTA) template.
• Review and own site-specific contracts from country template.
• Submit proposed CTA and investigator budget for site review.
• Negotiate budget and contract with site and via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL with Sponsor until resolution of issues.
• Perform quality control and arrange execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories and capture of metadata.
• Review contracts for completeness and accuracy, and ensure that corrections are appropriately made and documented.
• Administer all contract management processes, including coordination with relevant protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level.
• Generate amended contract and/or budget documents as necessary, preparing contract management documentation for projects, and streamlining the contract/proposal or internal processes; initiates and introduces creative ideas and solutions.
• Works closely with Site Contract Service Center and Legal to harmonize site contract to reflect sponsor's master service agreement terms.
• Works closely with SSU lead, Clinical Operations and Finance to validate the load of departmental budgets and corresponding backlog.
• Identifies possible contract or process operational risk and proactively works within the team to provide solutions.
• Establishes strong working relationships with SSU lead, customer and internal project teams.
• Escalates deviations to department leadership and/or Site Contract Service Center and/or Legal Department.
• Provides support to business development and represents site contracts/Site Start-Up (SSU) at internal or customer meetings.
• Works within the forecasted country/site contracting timelines, ensures they are complied with and tracks milestone progress in agreed upon SSU tracking system in real time.
• Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance, and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.
• Maintains and actively supports review and development of contract templates, budget templates and site specific files and databases.
• Serves as key communication liaison between site contracts staff and internal and external customers.
• Provides functional guidance and keeps internal and external teams aware of all contract statuses or pending issues.
• Prepares correspondence as necessary.
• Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and ensures quality of team work products.
• Maintains and updates training material for site contract team.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Budget management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project coordination

Vendor management

Education

BA/BS in Business Administration or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Contract management software

Job description

Syneos Health Argentina S.A. is seeking a Site Contracts Specialist with experience in site agreements and budget negotiation to support multi-country clinical trials across ARG/CHL/MX.

The role involves negotiating, drafting and reviewing site-level CTAs, budgets, and related documents, coordinating with SSU and Legal, and ensuring timely contract execution. Strong knowledge of clinical development, contract templating, and vendor management is required.