Title: Manager, Clinical Site Contracting
(Remote)
Location: North Chicago United States
Job Description:
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
Job Description
The Manager, Clinical Site Contracting (MCSC) is responsible for ensuring that contracts required for Clinical Studies are executed in a compliant and timely manner. This position works both independently and in collaboration with other leaders, to implement the clinical contracting strategy and ensure the quality of contracts and budget produced. This includes Clinical Disclosure Agreements (CDAs), Clinical Study Agreements (CSAs), Master Clinical Study Agreements (MCSAs), Investigator Initiated Study (IIS) Agreements, and other contract types as applicable. Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and leader for specific focus areas (e.g., US budgets, global implementation of best practice, system superuser etc.). The ability to manage internal and external relationships effectively and lead and develop a highly experience team are key success factors for this position. The MCSC will have direct line management / supervisory responsibility.
Responsibilities
Understands cost drivers associated with CSAs and associated contract types and drives negotiations that ensure fair market value, compliant agreements. Highly competent in negotiation, strategy, and contracting business standards.
Demonstrates a high level of outsourcing and technical competencies across clinical study agreements and therapeutic/functional areas and plays 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. Plays 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.
Managing templates, works with legal to make sure they are updated from language and systems perspective.
Development of SOPs and job aides, and the development of training tools associated with new processes.
This is a remote position anywhere in the US or Canada. If local to any of our offices will be required to work a hybrid schedule.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; a Health Care, business or scientific discipline required. Advanced degree preferred.
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.
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.
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.
Experience managing people preferred.
Strong multitasking and organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple contracts and address urgent/critical issues.
Key Stakeholders
R&D Legal, Clinical Development Operations, Office of Ethics and Compliance, Finance, Other PSM functions, Global Clinical Trial Sites
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status
