Sr Site Contracts Lead, Sponsor Dedicated. Open to EMEA. Homebased

Syneos Health, Inc.; Leeds; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative biopharmaceutical solutions organization is seeking a Sr Site Contracts Lead to enhance their clinical development model. In this pivotal role, you will establish training materials, oversee contract negotiations, and act as a subject matter expert in site contracts. Collaborating with a global team, you will ensure that contractual templates align with strategic goals while managing complex negotiations and providing mentorship to junior staff. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact in a company that values diversity and inclusion, all while working in a supportive and engaging environment. If you are passionate about driving success in clinical trials and fostering team development, this role is for you.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Total rewards program

Supportive management

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong experience in CRO/pharmaceutical industry and clinical trial expertise.
• Thorough knowledge of regulations and drug development processes.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and updates training material for site contracts lead team.
• Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements and drives finalization.

Skills

Clinical trial expertise

Issue resolution

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Leadership skills

Education

BS degree in life sciences

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

MS Project

Outlook

Job description

Sr Site Contracts Lead, Sponsor Dedicated. Open to EMEA. Homebased

Updated: January 30, 2025
Location: Europe-United Kingdom
Job ID:25001276

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

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 accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

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 our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job responsibilities

• Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators.
• Serves as subject matter expert within the organization equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues, and escalation point within the Company for internal customers to seek assistance.
• Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA´s) on a study level and drives CTA document finalization and execution, including contractual language & terms, financial attachments, and investigator grant budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators.
• Provides oversight of contact & budget negotiations status and manages escalation of out-of-parameter queries on budgetary and contractual requests to sponsor decision-makers in all regions of study conduct.
• Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations.
• Acts as first-line subject matter expert for all such CTA elements on assigned studies for internal and sponsor stakeholders alike.
• Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies—including forecast of site-specific contractual execution timelines.
• Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators.
• Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters.
• Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contractual templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.
• Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions.
• Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis.
• Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments.
• Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms.
• Identifies best practices, investigates root causes of fundamental issues and problems for projects and recommends solutions.
• Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates.
• May support BU and organization through help desk and other defined pathways to resolve and deescalate issues.
• May identify and lead internal team training and/or process improvement initiatives.
• Participates in business development presentations as a subject matter expert in site contracts and investigator budget management.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• BS degree in life sciences, a health related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong experience in a CRO/pharmaceutical industry and related clinical trial expertise.
• Thorough knowledge of applicable regulations, drug development and clinical project management procedures.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, outlook and Internet.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines.
• Above-average attention to detail, effective oral/written communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills, ability to teach/mentor team members.
• Strong background in issue resolution and driving best practices.

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.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.