Senior Site Contracts Specialist (Sponsor Dedicated /Remote - U.S. Only) Clinical Trial Contracts experience required!

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Site Contracts Specialist, you will serve as a key business partner throughout the clinical trial start-up process by:
• Independently negotiating and managing Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs), CTA amendments, an d site budgets for U.S. and Canadian clinical research sites.
• Drafting, cloning, reviewing, and negotiating site-specific CTAs from approved country templates.
• Leading contract and budget negotiations directly with investigative sites while partnering with Sponsor stakeholders until all issues are resolved.
• Applying approved CTA fallback language and budget negotiation parameters with minimal supervision.
• Maintaining accurate contract negotiation status and milestones within the Sponsor's clinical trial tracking system.
• Preparing amendments, revised budgets, and supporting documentation throughout the study lifecycle.
• Performing quality control reviews to ensure contracts are complete, accurate, compliant, and execution-ready.
• Coordinating contract execution and maintaining all required documentation and metadata within electronic repositories.
• Partnering closely with Clinical Operations, Site Start-Up, Finance, Legal, and Site Contract Service Center teams to ensure efficient study activation.
• Identifying contractual or operational risks early and proactively driving solutions.
• Tracking contracting timelines, deliverables, and project milestones to support study start-up goals.
• Serving as a trusted point of contact for internal teams, investigative sites, and Sponsor stakeholders.
• Supporting customer meetings, business initiatives, and continuous process improvements.
• Mentoring junior team members and contributing to SOPs, training materials, and quality initiatives.
• Monitoring contract-related project metrics and escalating issues when appropriate.

Requirements

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Public Health, Life Sciences, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2-3+ years of direct clinical trial site contract and budget negotiation experience within a CRO, pharmaceutical company, or Sponsor-dedicated environment.
• Demonstrated experience independently managing:
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Benefits

Additional Information

Senior Site Contracts Specialist (Sponsor Dedicated /Remote - U.S. Only) Clinical Trial Contracts experience required! Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver - for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health - We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. - We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life. - We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. Job Responsibilities Senior Site Contracts Specialist (Sponsor Dedicated /Remote - U.S. Only) Lead Clinical Trial Contract & Budget Negotiations That Accelerate Research Are you an experienced clinical trial contracts professional who enjoys negotiating complex agreements, partnering directly with investigative sites, and driving study start-up success? If so, we'd love to hear from you. We are seeking a Senior Site Contracts Specialist to join a high-performing, Sponsor-Dedicated team supporting a leading global biopharmaceutical company. In this highly visible role, you will independently manage U.S. and Canadian site contract and budget negotiations , partnering with cross-functional teams to help bring innovative therapies to patients faster. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and can confidently manage Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) and budgets with minimal oversight.

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