Contract & Budget Specialist

**Contract & Budget Specialist**

**Hybrid Remote - Mississauga, ON**

**Must Work On-Site 3 Days/Week**

Why settle for one thing when you can have everything? Labcorp Drug Development gives you the best two for one opportunity for career growth. Who doesn’t want twice the perks - working at one of the largest FSP CROs—and partnering with one sponsor with a dedicated therapeutic focus.

Our Energizing Purpose, Exceptional People and Extraordinary Potential combined with collaborative and proactive teams offer a great place for you to continue honing your therapeutic skills and growing and excelling in new exciting research. Our reach is global - extending to 60+ countries making us one of the largest FSP CROs. So, no matter where you are located on the globe, we have an FSP opportunity for you.

We are seeking a Contract & Budget Specialist to be responsible for the commercial relationship with sites involved in clinical trials including work from contract and amendment language, budget negotiation within the established timeline parameters. The Contract & Budget Specialist is able to perform in a fast paced environment, able to create and reset priorities as the need arises, identify and raise issues before they become critical, and adjust quickly to the changes of a dynamic organization.

**Additional responsibilities include**:

- Ensures the successful negotiation and on-going management of clinical trial agreements with investigative sites.
- Works cross functionally with Clinical Operations and Project Management in support of timely site start up for the conduct of clinical trials including accurate forecast of contract execution timelines.
- Collaborates with the sponsor LM who will partner with other compliance departments to ensure country specific laws and regulations are followed to minimize risk in clinical trials.
- Communicates and explains legal/ budgetary issues to internal and external parties per department guidelines.
- Reviews and evaluates client requested contract changes and based upon department guidelines escalates deviations as appropriate.
- Evaluates priorities and quickly readjusts priorities with the changing needs of business.
- Identifies and proactively raises issues prior to their becoming critical or creates risk.
- Appraises contracts for completeness and accuracy and ensures adherence to department guidelines; corrects documents and files changes to contracts.
- Participates in local study team meetings for the purpose of expediting the contract signing process as directed.
- Creates and maintains files for each contract.
- Tracks all site interaction in data base in a timely and accurate manner and ensures that status updates are fully descriptive.
- Generates ideas and solutions to improve requested contract/budget changes while appropriately partnering with sponsor LM for feedback and execution.
- Advances consistency, timeliness and completeness of all interactions with site in database.
- Exhibits increasing proficiency in executing documents that are complete and accurate delivered within shorter timeframes.
- Exhibits proficiency in managing multiple projects with competing priorities.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or international equivalent
- Two or more years relevant experience involving contracts and negotiation in the pharmaceutical or CRO environment
- Read write and speak fluent English; fluent in local language
- Familiarity with contracts
- Understands project management and service delivery
- Creative problem solver, skilled in risk management
- COVID-19 vaccination required

**Great Benefits at **Labcorp**:
Regular, full-time or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including:

- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life, STD/LTD
- 401(K)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO)
- Company bonus where applicable

**Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer**:
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