Senior Site Contracts Lead

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Healthtech • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
The Role
Lead and support global site contract and budget negotiations for clinical studies. Act as subject matter expert, develop training, manage escalations, advise sponsors/study teams on CTA strategy, maintain status reporting, collaborate with legal/finance/operations, mentor staff, and drive contract execution to meet study start-up timelines. Minimal travel (up to 25%).
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Senior Site Contracts Lead

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
 
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
 
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators.

Serves as subject matter expert within the organization equipped to help resolve global site contracting issues, and escalation point within the Company for internal customers to seek assistance.

Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA´s) on a study level and drives CTA document finalization and execution, including contractual language & terms, financial attachments, and investigator grant budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators.

Provides oversight of contact & budget negotiations status and manages escalation of out-of-parameter queries on budgetary and contractual requests to sponsor decision-makers in all regions of study conduct. Provides consultation during escalation of out-of-parameter queries as needed.

Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations. Provides consultation on potential risks and mitigation tactics for negotiation issues pertaining to overall study start-up needs.

Acts as first-line subject matter expert for all such CTA elements on assigned studies for internal and sponsor stakeholders alike. Advises stakeholders on issue resolution within the context of assigned studies. May seek additional support from internal support structures as needed.

Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies—including forecast of site-specific contractual execution timelines with as much accuracy as possible—and coordinates with internal study team stakeholders to ensure that CTA strategy is aligned with overall study start-up plans and expectations overall. Manages expectations of internal and sponsor study team regarding global CTA negotiations for assigned studies.

Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators including roll-up of all status updates to regular team forum. Participates in regular study calls to facilitate communication as needed.

Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters and processes within Company standards in order to drive successful negotiation of contracts and budgets.

Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contractual templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.

Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions. Establishes strong working relationships with customer and internal project teams. Escalates deviations to senior management and is equipped to resolve issues with Quality Assurance.

Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis; ensures appropriate documentation is maintained.

Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.

Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms within corporate and industry standards during negotiation with sites.

Identifies best practices, investigates root causes of fundamental issues and problems for projects and recommends solutions.

Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates and ensures quality of teamwork products.

May support BU and organization through help desk and other defined pathways to resolve and deescalate issues.

May identify and lead internal team training and/or process improvement initiatives.

Participates in business development presentations as a subject matter expert in site contracts and investigator budget management within the Company

Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Skills Required

  • Experience negotiating clinical trial agreements (CTAs) including contractual language, financial attachments, and investigator budgets.
  • Subject matter expertise in site contracting and global budget negotiations, including escalation management and risk mitigation.
  • Experience planning contract execution strategy and forecasting site-specific contractual timelines.
  • Proven collaboration with internal legal, finance, and clinical operations stakeholders.
  • Experience managing fair market value discussions and investigator payment terms.
  • Ability to create and maintain contract status reports and update departmental tools/systems.
  • Experience developing training materials, training and mentoring less experienced staff, and adherence to SOPs.
  • Willingness and ability to travel minimally (up to 25%).

Syneos Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Syneos Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Syneos Health.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Unlimited PTO for managers and flexible time‑off options make time away accessible and support work‑life balance. Day‑to‑day usability can depend on team and workload, but the policy breadth is a clear strength.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with company match is frequently highlighted as a strong component of the package. Despite vesting details to confirm, the retirement offering adds meaningful long‑term value.
  • Parental & Family Support Partnership with Maven provides fertility, adoption support, parental‑leave guidance, and women’s health resources across multiple regions. This family‑building support enhances the overall total rewards appeal.

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The Company
HQ: Raleigh, NC
22,543 Employees

What We Do

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. We bring together a talented team of professionals, who work across more than 110 countries, with a deep understanding of patient and physician behaviors and market dynamics. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. Syneos Health supports a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that cares for colleagues, customers, patients, communities and the environment.

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