FSP Site Budget & Contracts Specialist

FTINC Fortrea Inc.; North Carolina; Remote; USD 80,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life

401(K)

ESPP

PTO / Flexible time off

Job summary

Fortrea's FSP team is hiring Site Budget & Contracts Specialists to manage CTAs and site budgets for clinical trials. You will work with legal and cross‑functional teams to ensure timely CTA execution and accurate budgeting for sites and investigators.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and experience in healthcare or clinical research; travel to client sites is involved. Fortrea offers comprehensive benefits and a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, or clinical research preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop CTAs using templates and contract info sheets.
• Ensure CTAs are executed on time to meet study start-up timelines.
• Collaborate with legal to align CTA language with approved templates.
• Generate site budgets based on final country budget and distribute to sites.
• Negotiate MSAs with institutions and ensure timely renewals.

Skills

CTA development

Contract negotiations

Budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Fortrea's FSP team is hiring Site Budget & Contracts Specialists!

Location: Home Based in USA or Canada

Responsibilities

• Develop Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) utilizing standard templates and information from Contract Information Sheets.
• Ensure CTAs are executed in a timely manner in order to meet expected timelines for study start-up.
• Liaise with the legal departments to ensure any content changes to the CTAs are mutually agreeable, and in accordance with client's legally approved standard agreement language.
• Participate in Study kick-off meetings to obtain necessary information required for effective CTA execution.
• Solid understanding of standard contract language to enable decision making pertaining to sections of CTAs when language modifications are proposed by external contract parties.
• If language is not compliant, discuss issues with legal and work with the legal department, sites, contractors or vendors to resolve them.
• Generate site budgets based on final approved country budget in preparation for distribution to sites and following up with investigators.
• Research medical procedure costs using local or global database in order to provide accurate data for development of the site level budgets to allow Country Lead Monitors/Study Managers to calculate the latest average costs on procedures for their new studies.
• Manage CTAs ensuring all changes to agreements and corresponding components are updated according to client's legal standards and client Global SOPs.
• Responsible to ensure annual review of all templates with the Legal department and Local Head of Monitoring and Site Management.
• Manage the contract tracking database, including coordination of timely updates with respect to CTA.
• Ensure accuracy of information and reconcile discrepancies between documents and the database.
• Responsible for posting of fully executed contracts in eFiliA and locally on the Clinical Operations secure drive.
• Process for each study, internal approval forms and other documents which are required to ensure compliance with the Internal Signatory Process and are also required for annual audits.
• Ensure excellent communication and collaboration as point person among clinical trial site personnel (Investigator, Study Coordinator, Institution's Legal Counsel) client's Head, Clinical Operations, Legal Counsel and Manager, Insurance, throughout the contract negotiation process.
• Responsible for preparing for internal audits by maintaining a complete and accurate paper trail for each site contract negotiation.
• Negotiate Master Services Agreements (MSAs) with Institutions where Clinical Trials have been conducted and ensure they are reviewed prior to their renewal dates.

Education

• Must have a Bachelors’ degree or an equivalent scientific or commercial Higher Vocational education

Experience

• Experience in the healthcare field, pharmaceutical industry or clinical research preferred.

Pay Range: $80,000K- 89,000K USD - this range does not apply to candidates residing in Canada

Benefits

All job offers will be based on a candidate’s skills and prior relevant experience, applicable degrees/certifications, as well as internal equity and market data.

Regular, full-time or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• STD/LTD
• 401(K)
• ESPP
• Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO)
• Company bonus where applicable

Work Environment

Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment. Frequent travel to clients/ site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.

Physical Requirements

Ability to sit for extended periods and operate a vehicle safely. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck. Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf. Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. Regular and consistent attendance. Varied hours may be required.

At Fortrea, we're all about turning the "impossible" into 'I'm possible.' Together, we break barriers to deliver exceptional service to our patients, fueled by a shared commitment to teamwork and excellence. Regardless of your role, we're all family, working together to achieve extraordinary results. At Fortrea, your career isn't just a job – it's a journey of making the exceptional possible, every day.