Remote Clinical Research Budget Specialist (TX)

Actalent; United States; Remote; USD 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Time Off / PTO

Job summary

Actalent in Houston, TX is seeking a Clinical Research Budget Associate to manage and prepare budgets for industry-sponsored clinical trials. This remote role requires residency in Texas and offers a contract-to-hire path with competitive hourly pay.

You will collaborate with research planning, development leadership, regulatory, and finance teams to ensure accurate budgets, apply coverage analyses, and participate in sponsor/CRO negotiations.

Qualifications

• Experience budgeting industry-sponsored clinical trials.
• Experience in oncology or clinical research environments.
• Familiar with coverage analysis processes and collaboration with regulatory, budget, and clinical research finance teams.
• Experience participating in sponsor and CRO negotiations for new and amended budgets.

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed budgets for industry-sponsored clinical trials in collaboration with research planning and development leadership.
• Manage and create budgets for all alliance clinical trials coming into the department's clinical trials portfolio.
• Complete advance setup requests to establish funding accounts for clinical trials and ensure accurate account configuration.
• Review protocols, amendments, and ancillary documents to identify discrepancies and work with PI teams and sponsors to resolve issues.
• Collaborate with regulatory, budget, PI teams, and finance to review coverage analyses and report discrepancies.
• Assist with strategic and long-range planning for the department's clinical trials program and participate in weekly meetings.
• Work with department faculty to support clinical trial goals and align with financial and operational objectives.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews of budgets created by pre-award staff to ensure accuracy.
• Train new employees on pre-award budgeting duties and provide ongoing training on budget processes.
• Maintain training manuals and documentation for the budget team to ensure consistent processes and standards.
• Help manage team workload by updating assignment lists and monitoring progress.
• Collaborate with protocol processing to streamline schemas and maximize efficiency of charges and financial workflows.
• Participate in negotiations with industry sponsors and CROs to process budgets.
• Analyze sponsor budget proposals to determine whether funding covers trial costs based on complexity, visits, and reporting.

Skills

OnCore budgeting

Budgeting for industry-sponsoredTrials

Sponsorship/CRO negotiations

Tools

OnCore

Job description

Actalent in Houston, TX is seeking a Clinical Research Budget Associate to manage and prepare budgets for industry-sponsored clinical trials. This remote role requires residency in Texas and offers a contract-to-hire path with competitive hourly pay.

You will collaborate with research planning, development leadership, regulatory, and finance teams to ensure accurate budgets, apply coverage analyses, and participate in sponsor/CRO negotiations.