Director, Site Contracting - EMEA Small Business Units

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Provides overall management to the clinical site contracting function in AbbVie’s small business units (SBUs) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  This includes all countries in Europe except Spain, France, Italy, Germany (plus Switzerland and Austria) and the United Kingdom (plus Ireland).  Dedicated to obtaining high quality, cost-effective, timely and compliant contracts with clinical site partners in support of AbbVie’s entire R&D portfolio.  Pursues AbbVie R&D’s strategic direction to facilitate the prompt activation of relevant clinical trial sites and to meet R&D’s strategic requirements for study success and portfolio advancement.  Understands, anticipates and fulfills R&D clinical contracting needs today and over the LRP. Identifies, implements and maintains process improvements and standards for their department designed to reduce cycle time, maintain compliance and improve productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the EMEA SBU team within Global Site Contracting (GSC), comprised of multiple subsidiary teams responsible for individual SBU countries or related groupings, who in turn, directly oversee individual contributor site contract managers, with responsibility for negotiating contracts and budgets with clinical partners within their respective territories.

• Represent AbbVie at all levels of site partner management and engagement without supervisory review or accompaniment, including the ability to understand contract terms and clinical trial budgets both from an execution and a risk to Abbvie perspective.

•Responsible for maintaining contracting process compliance with applicable laws and AbbVie policies, including those arising in R&D, Procuremen