Investigator Contracts Lead 1

Why Patients Need You 

Controlling risk and achieving planned study start-up timelines procurement processes is needed to getting our next meaningful medication to market to help those in need. Your role is critical to getting our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most, faster and more efficiently than ever before. 

What You Will Achieve 

You will negotiate contract terms and budgets following processes designed to manage risk to Pfizer and obtain desired study start-up timelines.

As an ICL1 , you provide guidance to operational teams for managing projects. Your planning skills will help in preparing accurate timelines for site activation and your experience will help to find ways to improve upon processes. Through your comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts and theories of the discipline, you will also work towards advancing new concepts and methodologies. You will be able to take a leadership role to facilitate agreements between different teams including monitoring and influencing the progress of other ICL assigned to your study.

How You Will Achieve It

• Exercise good judgment in balancing the risks for Pfizer in making budget and contractual decisions against the impacts to Pfizer clinical trial timelines.
• Follow processes to develop, negotiate, track and execute global clinical study agreements with institutions and investigators participating in sponsored clinical trials.
• Work with partners to develop and oversee the global site budget process.
• Work with clinical trial sites and directly negotiate cost, business and contractual terms and conditions with investigators/institutions, making changes to contract templates within the Legal division approved parameters.
• Lead and develop relationships with key investigational sites and Site Management Organizations across the contracting and budgeting interface.
• Lead study level site contracting activities, direct other ICL and act as primary study point of contract for site contracting issues and timelines on assigned studies.
• Partner with Legal and other divisions to manage escalations in the site budgeting and contracting space.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, CRO and other divisions to identify and implement areas of improvement in the site contracting space.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the principles, concepts and theories in applicable business disciplines.
• Collaborate with invoicing specialists and/or invoice service provider to ensure alignment with Investigative Site contracting and compensation requirements.
• Apply acquired job skills and procedures to complete substantive assignments, projects and tasks of moderate scope and complexity in applicable discipline.
• Contribute to design, development and implementation of major business initiatives or special projects. Applies technical skills and discipline knowledge to contribute to the achievement of business objectives at the Functional Line level.

Qualifications 

Must-Have 

• 5+ years of experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing and a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating of Clinical Trial Agreements with clinical trial sites in a global operation. 
• Experience with clinical study budgets and contracting negotiation principles, practices, processes, and activities.
• Balance of general business, compliance, finance, legal, and drug development experience.
• Precise communications and presentation skills.
• Ability to plan, identify and mitigate risks to site contacting timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead by influence rather than positional power to accomplish critical deliverables.
• Demonstrated success in working in a highly matrix-based organization.

Nice-to-Have 

• 2+ years of experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing and a US Juris Doctorate or equivalent legal degree.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• None

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• None

Other Job Details:

• Last Date to Apply: 205 AUGUST 2024
• Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus.

Work Location Assignment: Remote - Field Based

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $93,500.00 to $155,900.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfi