Site Contracts Manager

📋 Description

• • Own the full life-cycle of site-level contracts across Europe for Precision for Medicine’s growing clinical portfolio. You will review, draft, negotiate and track confidentiality agreements, master confidentiality agreements, clinical study agreements and amendment agreements, ensuring every document is compliant, commercially sound and delivered on time.
• • Act as the primary point of contact between Legal, Clinical Operations, Finance, Sponsors and investigative sites. Your ability to translate complex legal language into clear business terms will keep study teams aligned and timelines intact.
• • Partner with Clinical Operations to map contract milestones to study start-up plans. You will proactively flag potential bottlenecks, propose alternative language and drive rapid resolution so that first-patient-in dates are never delayed by paperwork.
• • Build and maintain a centralized dashboard that tracks contract status, turnaround times, negotiation trends and KPIs. Your metrics will feed executive-level reporting and directly influence resource planning and process improvement initiatives.
• • Negotiate fair-market-value site budgets in parallel with legal terms, leveraging benchmark data and regional intelligence to secure cost-effective agreements without compromising site relationships.
• • Ensure strict adherence to company policies, SOPs, GDPR and all applicable regulatory requirements. You will conduct periodic audits of contract files and databases, guaranteeing audit-ready documentation at all times.
• • Lead or contribute to cross-functional working groups tasked with refining global contracting standards, playbooks and clause libraries. Your insights will shape scalable processes that accelerate study start-up across multiple therapeutic areas.
• • Mentor junior contract specialists and provide on-the-job training in negotiation tactics, risk assessment and system utilization, raising the overall capability of the European contracts team.
• • Drive continuous improvement by identifying manual touchpoints, proposing automation solutions and partnering with IT to implement enhancements in Veeva Vault, SharePoint or similar platforms.
• • Support business development by participating in bid defenses and capability presentations, showcasing our streamlined contracting approach as a competitive differentiator to prospective sponsors.
• • Manage the archival and retrieval of fully executed agreements, maintaining a defensible audit trail for internal and external inspections. You will also coordinate translations and notarizations when required.
• • Remain current on evolving industry standards, legislative changes and competitive practices, translating external intelligence into actionable internal guidance that keeps Precision for Medicine at the forefront of efficient clinical contracting.