Site Contracts Specialist (Spanish Required)

7257 Syneos Health Argentina S.A.; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health Argentina S.A. seeks a Site Contracts Specialist to administer contract management processes at the project level across sites in Argentina.

You will coordinate with protocol, consent, institution, investigator, vendor, and sponsor agreements, ensuring templates align with country requirements. You will support multi-country projects, negotiate budgets, prepare site contracts, and maintain templates and metadata in repositories, while mentoring junior staff and ensuring timely

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• High level of contracts management experience.
• Experience in a CRO or pharmaceutical industry is essential.
• Strong knowledge of clinical development and contracting parameters.
• Excellent MS Office skills and vendor management.
• Strong negotiating and communication abilities.
• Ability to mentor and lead junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Administers all contract management processes at project level.
• Lead multi-country projects including contract and budget negotiation.
• Support country template contracts and budgets.
• Produce site-specific contracts from country templates.
• Assist in contract/budget submissions for sites.
• Negotiate budgets and contracts with sites through SSU until resolution.
• Maintain templates, conduct quality control, and archive documents.
• Provide training and guidance to staff on SOPs and WI.

Skills

Contracts management

CRO/pharma experience

Clinical development knowledge

Microsoft Office

Negotiation skills

Project management

Vendor management

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Site Contracts Specialist - ARG Hybrid

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 for. 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 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.
• Good understanding clinical protocols and associated study specifications.
• Excellent understanding of clinical trial start-up processes.
• Project management experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Good vendor management skills.
• Excellent written/oral communication, presentation, documentation, interpersonal skills as well as strong team-orientation.
• Strong organizational skills with proven ability to handle multiple projects excellent communication.
• Quality-driven in all managed activities.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to mentor, lead and motivate more junior staff.
• Demonstrate an ability to provide quality feedback and guidance to peers Contribute to a training and Quality assurance plan within SSU and update SOPs/WI.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment.

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the job description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by legislation of each country in which it operates, including implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job. Discover what our Syneos Health colleagues already know: work here matters everywhere. Work alongside the brightest minds in the biopharmaceutical industry taking down walls and removing barriers to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We are strategic thinkers who actively seek different perspectives, whether across offices or across oceans. Because we solve some of the toughest challenges facing the most prestigious healthcare companies today, you’ll gain exposure and be supported with comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing. The diversification and breadth of Syneos Health creates a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. We’re a growing, global company dedicated to advancing our talent past their initial role. Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career in which you’re guaranteed to: Partner with the most diverse team of experts in the industry. From the top down, our people are inspiring. Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it. Work in specialized Syneos Health teams that are therapeutically or functionally aligned for expert collaboration. We assemble clinical teams where everyone, from CRAs to senior management, is skilled in the same therapeutic area or customer teams. With this structure, everyone on your team speaks the same language and can deliver unique insights into the therapeutic environment and patient population. We are partners with purpose. We integrate seamlessly with our customers and do what’s best for their success. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insights and endless energy that accelerates the impact of life changing therapies worldwide.

Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com