Site Contracts Specialist (Spanish Required)

Syneos Health, Inc.; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 106,019,000 - 151,455,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health, Inc. is seeking a Site Contracts Specialist who will administer contract management processes and support multi-country clinical trials.

The role requires Spanish proficiency and works across site contracts, budgets, and templates to ensure timely execution. The candidate will coordinate with protocol, informed consent, institutions, investigators, vendors, consultants, and customers, shaping contracts to meet project needs and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent with advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive contracts management experience.
• Experience in CRO or pharmaceutical industry essential.
• Strong knowledge of the clinical development process and legal considerations.

Responsibilities

• Administers all contract management processes, including coordination with protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level.
• Leads multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials.
• Provides support in negotiating budgets and contracts with sites via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL until resolution of issues.
• Produces site-specific contracts from country templates and maintains documentation in repositories.

Skills

Contracts management

Clinical research experience

Pharma industry experience

Education

BA/BS in Business Admin or related field

Job description

Site Contracts Specialist (Spanish Required)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver - for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Administers all contract management processes, including coordination with relevant protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level. May May lead (with supervision) multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials. Provides support to SSUL to agree on country template contract and budget. Produces site-specific contracts from country template. Provide support in submissions for proposed contract and budget for site. Provides support in negotiating budget and contract with site via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL with Sponsor until resolution of issues. Performs quality control and arranges execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories and capture of metadata. Reviews contracts for completeness and accuracy, and ensures that corrections are appropriately made and documented. Provides supports to business development and represents site contracts/Site Start-Up (SSU) at internal or customer meetings. Work with Contract Managers and team members with the active project management of ongoing contract issues; performs follow-up on all outstanding contract issues. Support in generating amended contract and/or budget documents as necessary, preparing contract management documentation for projects, and streamlining the contract/proposal or internal processes; and initiates and introduces creative ideas and solutions. 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. Facilitates the execution of contracts by company signatories. Maintains contract templates and site specific files and databases. 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. Acts as a 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. Monitors basic financial aspects of the project and the number of hours/tasks available per contract; escalates discrepancies in a timely fashion. Reviews and complies with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) in a timely manner, keeps training records updated accordingly and ensures timesheet compliance.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced degree preferred.
• High level of contracts management experience.
• Experience in a contract research organization or pharmaceutical industry essential.
• Strong knowledge of the clinical development process and legal and con