About this role
The Budgets & Contracts Manager primary role is to analyze operational and financial data, improve contracting process and contribute to overall effectiveness improvement of the financial and operations health of DMCR.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Review CRO/Sponsor budgets and contracts to the study-specific budget parameters
- Negotiate and review contract amendments and letters
- Develop and maintain various financial KPIs for maintaining budget decision logs
- Oversee the internal contract execution process, including but not limited to signatures and uploading to the contract management system and other specified areas
- Develop and enhance relationships with internal clients, internal stakeholders, vendors, and sites and effectively communicate with them
- Ensure that internal systems, folders, and reports are updated in a timely, accurate, and complete manner
- Any other matter as assigned by management
Knowledge & Experience:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or a related field required
Experience:
- 2+ years of financial planning experience or budget development and contract negotiation required
- Experience with clinical budgeting and contracting at a biopharmaceutical company, CRO, or clinical site is preferred
Credentials:
- N/A
Knowledge and Skills:
- The ability to mitigate and drive solutions regarding site budgeting challenges
- Critical thinking and analysis skills to identify and implement best practices and contribute to continuous improvement for site budgeting and contracting
- Ability to handle a large volume of assignments while effectively dealing with ambiguity
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to participate in cross-functional teams of peers and vendors