Clinical Site Contracting Manager

Summary

Join AbbVie as a Manager, Clinical Site Contracting (MCSC) and ensure timely and compliant execution of contracts for clinical studies. Collaborate with leaders to implement clinical contracting strategies and maintain contract quality. Manage and develop a team, acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in areas like US budgets and global best practices. Negotiate fair market value in contracts and maintain effective collaborations with internal and external stakeholders. This remote position, based anywhere in the US or Canada (hybrid if local to an office), requires extensive experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical contracting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience; a Health Care, business or scientific discipline required
• Extensive experience (at least 6 years), in clinical research or contracting within the pharmaceutical industry is required
• Understanding of compliance and regulatory matters in clinical research
• Knowledge and overview of clinical studies and how they work is required for this role
• Superior written and oral communication skills including written and verbal fluency in English and local language (if not English), with the ability to convey objectives and maintain open lines of communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Proven negotiation, tact and diplomacy skills including conflict resolution and problem solving
• Ability to effectively and independently provide leadership and mentoring to other team members to strategically drive the business, solve issues efficiently and mitigate risk
• Proactive and positive leader. Able to maintain high performance of self and others during times of ambiguity and change in the work environment
• Strong multitasking and organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple contracts and address urgent/critical issues

Responsibilities

• Understand cost drivers associated with CSAs and associated contract types and drive negotiations that ensure fair market value, compliant agreements
• Demonstrate a high level of outsourcing and technical competencies across clinical study agreements and therapeutic/functional areas and play a key role in making decisions through careful evaluation of benefit/risk
• Communicate, liaise with, manage, and train colleagues and customers, including investigational sites, on the contracting process and the life cycle of a contract
• Play a key role in the performance and maintenance of effective collaborations with internal and external stakeholders
• Build, manage and develop staff, supporting the growth and development of up to 5 direct reports
• Provide guidance and subject matter expertise to support, train, and mentor direct and indirect reports
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and effectively present key information to stakeholders
• Play a key role in working closely with TA/FA's, Legal, OEC and investigational sites to resolve contract issues
• Demonstrate subject matter expert (SME) status and leadership to identify the need for and play a key role in cross-functional process improvement initiatives
• Drive continuous improvement in team performance and areas of subject matter expertise
• Manage templates, work with legal to make sure they are updated from language and systems perspective
• Develop SOPs and job aides, and the development of training tools associated with new processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree preferred
• Experience of leading in cross-functional interactions and working within a global environment an advantage
• Demonstrated ability in influencing and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate across projects/programs/timelines
• Experience managing people preferred

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Short-term incentive programs
• Long-term incentive programs