Senior Clinical Site Budget Specialist

Company Overview
ImmunityBio, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBRX) is a commercial-stage biotechnology company developing cell and immunotherapy products that are designed to help strengthen each patient’s natural immune system, potentially enabling it to outsmart the disease and eliminate cancerous or infected cells. We envision a day when we no longer fear cancer, but can conquer it, thanks to the biological wonder that is the human immune system. Our scientists are working to develop novel therapies that harness that inherent power by amplifying both branches of the immune system, attacking cancerous or infected cells today while building immunological memory for tomorrow. The goal: to reprogram the patient’s immune system and treat the host rather than just the disease.

Why ImmunityBio?
• ImmunityBio is developing cutting-edge technology with the goal to transform the lives of patients with cancer and develop next-generation therapies and vaccines that complement, harness and amplify the immune system to defeat cancers and infectious diseases.
• Opportunity to join a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Southern California.
• Work with a collaborative team with the ability to work across different areas of the company.
• Ability to join a growing company with professional development opportunities.

Position Summary

The Senior Clinical Trial Budget Specialist position will develop, deploy and administer standardized approaches to suppliers, contracts, and budgets for clinical trial operations.  The role will build clinical trial budgets for negotiation as well as provide budget and administrative policy guidance to the clinical operations departments.  The Senior Clinical Trial Budget Specialist may mentor, coach and train lesser experienced budget team members.

Essential Functions

• Guide and support clinical operations departments in the site budgeting process for ImmunityBio trials, as well as investigator initiated trials including the preparation, negotiation and execution of clinical trial budgets, service contracts and agreements
• Identify opportunities for improvement to the clinical trial business process and recommend and draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and templates
• Monitor budget timelines, provide regular updates to trial stakeholders, and recommend tactics to achieve clinical program milestones
• Provide reports/analysis of trends in negotiation of budgets/agreements to management
• Triage incoming protocols for coverage analysis and budget build
• Perform detailed coverage analysis for clinical trials based on Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Policy, National Coverage Determinations (NCDs), Local Coverage Determination (LCDs), Drug Compendia, etc.
• Develop, review, and negotiate clinical trial budgets
• Partner and communicate with Legal, Finance/Accounting, and Clinical Operations Teams.
• Develop and maintain study-specific site budget templates and negotiate parameters for the budgets and contracts.
• Assist in budget, forecasting, auditing, and variance management activities
• Respond to coverage analysis, billing compliance, and budget-related questions
• Act as subject matter expert to select the best method to address billing compliance issues and negotiate budgets
• Educate others on the processes for budgets and billing compliance as needed
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and training to lesser-experienced members of the budget team
• Performs ad-hoc and cross-functional projects as assigned to support business needs and provide developmental opportunities.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years’ progressive experience in budget and contract development required
• 4+ years’ experience in clinical research required
• Experience with contract negotiations preferred
• Experience with domestic and international research studies preferred

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Knowledge and expertise in the use of Clinical Trial Management Systems and excel for budget development and negotiation
• Advanced skills in Excel
• Knowledge in coverage analysis and CPT coding
• Sound judgment, problem solving, matrix management, and collaboration in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions to problems.
• Knowledge of the drug development process and cross-functional responsibilities
• Ability to influence various teams without direct reporting structure
• Extremely flexible, highly organized, and able to balance and quickly shift priorities
• Excellent project and process management skills with a track record of a