Scoping and Budgeting Specialist

Summary

Join Celerion's Proposal and Financial Management team as a Clinical Research Scoping and Budgeting Specialist! You will be responsible for generating and managing clinical research budgets, proposals, and project awards. Collaborate with Business Development to manage all aspects of pre-award clinical research projects. This full-time benefited position offers flexibility with options for locations in Phoenix, AZ, Lincoln, NE, or 100% remote work. Develop early-phase clinical research budgets, evaluate RFPs, review protocols, consult with experts, coordinate with vendors, and ensure accurate budget mapping. Participate in bid defense meetings and respond to sponsor inquiries. Manage the budget throughout the contracting process and facilitate project hand-offs.

Requirements

• Ability to quickly identify key proposal and budgeting parameters based on knowledge and experience
• Ability to prioritize workflow quickly and efficiently against deadlines
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Adept at cross-functional team collaboration, including the ability to interact with all levels of the organization

Responsibilities

• Develop early-phase clinical research budgets through the following
• Evaluation of RFPs for technical specifications, deliverables, roles and responsibilities, deadlines, assumptions, and format requirements
• Review of early phase clinical research protocols to identify key service requirements and assumptions needed for budget
• Consultation with internal subject matter experts to determine project-specific requirements and pricing structure for non-standard activities
• Communication and Coordination of all required third-party vendors and subcontractors throughout the scoping and budgeting process
• Development of comprehensive, accurate, and timely project-specific budgets using an Excel-based tool
• Accurately defining and mapping budgets to sponsor format templates or grids
• Modifying or re-bidding of all budget revisions
• Participation in bid defense meetings, project scoping calls, and ad hoc budget review calls with sponsor and internal teams
• Responding to sponsor questions regarding proposed budget and operational strategy via written and verbal communications
• Generation and submission of project-specific documents to legal department as well as managing the budget through the entire contracting process
• Hosting project alignment and hand-off calls to operational managers

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS in business/finance/life sciences or equivalent education and experience
• 3-5 years of experience in early phase clinical research
• 3-5 years of experience reading, reviewing, and understanding information contained within clinical research protocols
• Previous experience with clinical trial proposal processes and budget generation