Remote Senior Site Contracts Lead – CTA & Budget Negotiations

Syneos Health; United States; Remote; USD 68,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Health benefits

401k

Stock purchase plan

Commissions/bonus

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Syneos Health in the United States is seeking a Senior Site Contracts Lead with CRO/Pharma experience to manage CTA negotiations, budgets, and templates for global studies. The role emphasizes training, escalation, and collaboration with internal and sponsor teams.

Salary range $67,700–$115,100 reflects market levels for this client-dedicated remote-US position. Up to 25% travel may be required, with comprehensive benefits and opportunities for advancement.

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 budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators.
• Provides oversight of contract & 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 with as much accuracy as possible-and coordinates with internal study team stakeholders to ensure that CTA strategy is aligned with overall study start-up plans and expectations overall.
• Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators including roll-up of all status updates to regular team forum.
• Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters and processes within Company standards in order to drive successful negotiation of contracts and budgets.
• 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. Establishes strong working relationships with customer and internal project teams. Escalates deviations to senior management and is equipped to resolve issues with Quality Assurance.
• Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis; ensures appropriate documentation is maintained.
• Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.
• Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms within corporate and industry standards during negotiation with sites.
• 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 SOPs, processes, tools and templates and ensures quality of teamwork products.
• 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 within the Company
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

Job description

Syneos Health in the United States is seeking a Senior Site Contracts Lead with CRO/Pharma experience to manage CTA negotiations, budgets, and templates for global studies. The role emphasizes training, escalation, and collaboration with internal and sponsor teams.

Salary range $67,700–$115,100 reflects market levels for this client-dedicated remote-US position. Up to 25% travel may be required, with comprehensive benefits and opportunities for advancement.