Budget Builder Site Contracting

Bristol Myers Squibb; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,494,000 - 5,993,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Budget Builder for site contracting roles based in Warsaw. You will translate clinical protocols into precise, compliant budgets to fund investigator grants and site activities from day one.

You will analyse cost drivers, apply FMV principles, and collaborate with Finance, Compliance, and Study Teams to keep trials on track and audit-ready. This role offers hybrid work and exposure to global budgets.

Qualifications

• Clinically grounded financial expertise translating study protocols into costed budget components.
• Knowledge of investigator grants, site budgeting, and FMV within regulatory frameworks across geographies.
• Strong analytical thinking to extract cost stories from complex protocols.
• Excel proficiency and budgeting tools including Pivot tables and budget databases.
• Precision and process discipline to follow SOPs and templates for accuracy and compliance.
• Clear communication in a cross-functional, multinational setting.

Responsibilities

• Build investigator grant and site budgets from templates and study protocols to support negotiations.
• Analyse protocol-specific cost drivers including visit frequency, country considerations, and procedure intensity.
• Exercise ownership over cost mapping; escalate only true exceptions within approved frameworks.
• Apply FMV principles and governance to ensure compliance across regions.
• Prepare and release country-specific budget outputs used in negotiations with CRO partners.
• Collaborate with Finance, Compliance, Clinical Ops, Study Teams, and Site Contracting to resolve budget questions.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and version control for inspections.
• Support budget-to-actual variance analysis to help study teams course-correct.
• Contribute to process improvements by flagging recurring budgeting challenges and proposing solutions.
• Provide scenario-based modelling and benchmarking across studies to deepen cost insights.

Skills

Excel

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional communication

Budgeting

FMV principles

SOPs & compliance

Education

Finance/Economics/Business degree

Tools

Budget databases

Pivot tables

Job description

Job Description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

We are seeking to fill multiple Budget Builder Site Contracting roles as part of our Warsaw build!

Your Work Will Directly Shape How Clinical Trials Move Forward

If you're someone who loves turning complex clinical protocols into precise, compliant financial frameworks and you want to see the direct impact of your work in how trials are set up and run globally, this role puts you right at the centre of that process.

At Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), you won't just be building spreadsheets. You'll be a key player in making sure investigative sites are fairly funded, negotiations are grounded in solid financial insight and clinical studies can move forward without financial roadblocks.

This is a role where your financial precision directly enables clinical research. If that kind of purpose-driven work appeals to you, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing (and Why It Matters)

• Building investigator grant and site budgets from the ground up Using approved templates, cost grids, and your own deep reading of the study protocol, you'll create budgets that are accurate, compliant, and ready to support fast, confident negotiations, giving sites and study teams the clarity they need from day one.
• Analysing protocol-specific cost drivers From visit frequency and patient burden to country-specific considerations and procedural intensity, your analysis will ensure no cost is overlooked, meaning fewer surprises downstream and smoother trial execution.
• Exercising real decision-making authority You'll have genuine ownership over how procedures and costs are mapped. This isn't a role where everything gets escalated upward , you'll make calls within approved frameworks and only elevate true exceptions. That's a real level of professional trust.
• Applying Fair Market Value (FMV) principles and governance rules Your work keeps BMS compliant and consistent across regions, which means you're directly protecting the integrity of trials that could one day help patients.
• Preparing and releasing country-specific budget outputs The budgets you validate and export are what Contract Specialists and CRO partners take into negotiations, your accuracy is what makes those conversations credible and efficient.
• Collaborating across Finance, Compliance, Clinical Ops, Study Teams, and Site Contracting You'll be a go-to resource for interpreting protocol nuances and resolving budget questions, building cross-functional relationships that strengthen your professional network and visibility within the organisation.
• Maintaining audit-ready documentation and version control Your organisation and attention to detail will mean the team is always inspection-ready, a skill that's genuinely valued and recognised in regulated environments like clinical trials.
• Supporting budget-to-actual variance analysis By identifying cost deviations early, you'll help study teams course-correct before small issues become big problems, a tangible contribution to trial financial health.
• Contributing to process improvement initiatives You'll have a real voice here. When you spot recurring challenges in protocol-driven budgeting, you're encouraged to flag them and propose solutions, helping shape how the team works, not just executing within it.
• Providing scenario-based modelling and benchmarking support Working with standardised tools, you'll develop a broader view of cost patterns across studies, insights that add real depth to your financial expertise over time.

What You'll Bring To The Role

• Clinically grounded financial expertise You understand clinical study protocols — schedules of assessments, visit structures, procedural flow and you can translate that understanding into accurate, costed budget components. That's a rare combination.
• Knowledge of investigator grants, site budgeting, and FMV You're comfortable working within financial compliance frameworks and applying them consistently across geographies.
• Strong analytical thinking You can look at a complex protocol and see the cost story within it then communicate that clearly to colleagues who may not share your financial lens.
• Excel proficiency and familiarity with budgeting tools Pivot tables, formulas, and budget databases are second nature to you.
• Precision and process discipline You take SOPs and templates seriously not because you have to, but because you understand why accuracy and compliance matter in this environment.
• Clear communication in a cross-functional, multinational setting You're comfortable navigating different teams, time zones, and perspectives to get the right outcome.

Your Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
• 2–5 years of experience in investigator grant or site budget development within pharma or a CRO
• Experience with clinical trial budget governance is a definite plus

Additional Information

• Occasional travel, up to 10%, for regional strategy meetings and cross-functional collaboration.
• 50% hybrid working

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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