Biopharmaceutical Contract Specialist

7 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Syneos Health Full time
Job Overview

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs, and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to make Syneos Health easier to work with and for.

  • Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do.

What We Do:

We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies because we are passionate about changing lives.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers to help our customers achieve their goals.

  • We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself.
  • We continuously build the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with.

Job Responsibilities:

  • May lead multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials.
  • Produces site-specific contracts from country clinical trial agreement (CTA) template.
  • Negotiates budget and contract with site and via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL with Sponsor until resolution of issues.
  • Performs quality control and arranges execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories.
  • Administers all contract management processes, including coordination with relevant protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level.
  • Generates amended contract and/or budget documents as necessary, preparing contract management documentation for projects.
  • Works closely with Site Contract Service Center and Legal to harmonize site contract to reflect sponsor's master service agreement terms.
  • Identifies possible contract or process operational risk and proactively works within the team to provide solutions.
  • Provides support to business development and represents site contracts/Site Start-Up (SSU) at internal or customer meetings.
  • Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance, and clinical operations departments.
  • Maintains and actively supports review and development of contract templates, budget templates and site specific files and databases.
  • Serves as key communication liaison between site contracts staff and internal and external customers.
  • Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
  • Facilitates the execution of contracts by company signatories.
  • Monitors basic financial aspects of the project and the number of hours/tasks available per contract.
  • Reviews and complies with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) in a timely manner.


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