Site Contracts Specialist (Polish Required)

Syneos Health, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health, Inc. is seeking a Site Contracts Specialist with Polish language requirement.

The role focuses on administering contract management for clinical trials, coordinating country templates, budgets, and site-level negotiations across a global network. You will work with contract managers, legal, finance, and clinical operations to ensure timely contract execution and maintain documentation and training materials.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Strong contracts management experience and knowledge of clinical trial processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Administers contract management processes across protocol, consent, institution, investigator, vendor, and sponsor documents.
• Leads multi-country project contracts and budgets, creates site contracts from templates, and negotiates terms.
• Collaborates with legal, finance, and clinical operations; maintains templates and training materials.
• Monitors contract milestones, ensures SOPs/WIs compliance, and mentors junior staff.

Skills

Contract management

Project management

Vendor management

Negotiation

Communication skills

Education

BA/BS in Business Administration/Public Administration/Public Health

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Site Contracts Specialist (Polish Required)

Updated: Today
Location: Remote, Serbia
Job ID:25110041

Description

Site Contracts Specialist (Polish Required)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

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 deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

• Administers all contract management processes, including coordination with relevant protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level.
• May May lead (with supervision) multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials. Provides support to SSUL to agree on country template contract and budget. Produces site-specific contracts from country template. Provide support in submissions for proposed contract and budget for site. Provides support in negotiating budget and contract with site via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL with Sponsor until resolution of issues. Performs quality control and arranges execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories and capture of metadata. Reviews contracts for completeness and accuracy, and ensures that corrections are appropriately made and documented. Provides supports to business development and represents site contracts/Site Start-Up (SSU) at internal or customer meetings.
• Work with Contract Managers and team members with the active project management of ongoing contract issues; performs follow-up on all outstanding contract issues.
• Support in generating amended contract and/or budget documents as necessary, preparing contract management documentation for projects, and streamlining the contract/proposal or internal processes; and initiates and introduces creative ideas and solutions.
• Works within the forecasted country/site contracting timelines, ensures they are complied with and tracks milestone progress in agreed upon SSU tracking system in real time.
  Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance, and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues. Facilitates the execution of contracts by company signatories.
  Maintains contract templates and site specific files and databases. Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and ensures quality of team work products.Maintains and updates training material for site contract team. Acts as a communication liaison between site contracts staff and internal and external customers. Provides functional guidance and keeps internal and external teams aware of all contract statuses or pending issues. Prepares correspondence as necessary.
• Monitors basic financial aspects of the project and the number of hours/tasks available per contract; escalates discrepancies in a timely fashion.
• Reviews and complies with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) in a timely manner, keeps training records updated accordingly and ensures timesheet compliance.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced degree preferred.
• High level of contracts management experience.
• Experience in a contract research organization or pharmaceutical industry essential.
• Strong knowledge of the clinical development process and legal and contracting parameters.
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Customer focused and ability to manage challenging priorities and to remain flexible and adaptable in stressful situations.
• Excellent understanding of clinical trial process across Phases II-IV and ICH GCP.
• Good understanding clinical protocols and associated study specifications.
• Excellent understanding of clinical trial start-up processes.
• Project management experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Good vendor management skills.
• Excellent written/oral communication, presentation, documentation, interpersonal skills as well as strong team-orientation.
• Strong organizational skills with proven ability to handle multiple projects excellent communication.
• Quality-driven in all managed activities. Strong negotiating skills. Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to mentor, lead and motivate more junior staff.
• Demonstrate an ability to provide quality feedback and guidance to peers Contribute to a training and Quality assurance plan within SSU and update SOPs/WI.

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.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Summary

Roles within the Site Start-Up/Site ID job family are responsible for managing and executing the site identification process in accordance with regulations, SOPs, and project requirements. This includes completing and negotiating site confidentiality agreements (CDAs) and site information forms (SIFs) with sites, maintaining, reviewing, and reporting on site performance metrics, serving as the primary point of contact for investigative sites, and tracking the completion of site identification for sites.Impact and ContributionIndividual contributors with responsibility in a professional or technical discipline or specialty, but may manage two or fewer employees. May direct the work of lower level professionals or manage processes and programs. The majority of time is spent contributing to the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs, and policies, using knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education. Established and productive individual contributor. May manage defined components of projects or processes within area of responsibility. Requires practical knowledge of a professional area, typically obtained through education combined with experience.

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improvespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

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. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients.