Clinical Trial Budget and Contracts Manager

Summary

Join Natera as their Budgets & Contracts Manager and contribute to the success of clinical trials. You will manage clinical agreements, budgets, and payments, ensuring compliance and timely execution. Collaborate with various teams, including study teams, legal, and finance, to optimize processes and resolve issues. This role requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience in managing clinical site budgets and contracts, and a bachelor's degree. The position offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, as well as free testing for employees and their families. Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study
• Minimum 8 years of working experience managing clinical site budgets and contracts
• Working knowledge of ICH Good Clinical Practice guidelines
• Must be self‐motivated with a demonstrated ability to work independently
• Demonstrated analytical skills and ability to identify problems and propose solutions
• Detail oriented, with solid organization, planning, and time management skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong customer focus

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day management of site contracts and tracking to OKRs for key deliverables
• Lead meetings with study teams and data management, to ensure creation of site budget templates and study plan templates are aligned to study protocols and their database
• Lead site contract negotiations, communicate risks to cross functional partners with proposed solutions
• Deliver activity status updates to internal and external parties, communicate timeline risks and propose mitigations
• Collaborate with cross functional partners to lead systems updates, so that they meet team requirements and are optimized for day‐to‐day management of assigned tasks
• Manage and track clinical contracts, study plans, amendments, site budgets, and POs across multiple studies, and multiple systems, simultaneously
• Utilize existing processes to draft, negotiate and execute a variety of clinical agreements in collaboration with Legal and Clinical Operations Study teams
• Propose and implement solutions for identified gaps in budget, contract, and payment processes
• Analyze Fair Market Value (FMV) to support budget development, negotiation, and documentation
• Issue purchase requests against executed contracts and manage the lifecycle of corresponding POs; tracking associated invoices and their payments
• Ensure timely payments to sites, partnering closely with AP to troubleshoot as needed
• Ensure that budgets, contracts, PRs/POs are loaded into CTMS, ERP, legal systems
• Provide leadership to one or more Natera initiatives, as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with international trials

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Generous employee referral program