Job Details

Duties and Responsibilities:

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Reviewing clinical trial agreements, contract amendments, confidentiality agreements, and nondisclosure agreements received from pharmaceutical sponsors or contract research organizations

• Collaborating with Sarah Cannon Legal and other departments to ensure that Sarah Cannon's interests are clearly identified

• Communicating with clinics, physician groups, hospitals, and other patient treatment facilities represented by Sarah Cannon to ensure that their interests are clearly identified

• Negotiating with pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations and revising agreements to serve both Sarah Cannon's and its affiliated sites' interests in final contracts

• Engaging in regular, professional contact with contracting parties to ensure understanding of all parties and to make certain that progress continues toward full resolution of unresolved issues

• Revising contracts to include and track changes

• Keeping Budgets & Contracts management informed of contract issues, breakdown of negotiations, and contract timing, escalating matters that require higher-level involvement

• Cooperating with other Sarah Cannon departments, leaders, and executives that are affected by contracts and contract execution timelines to ensure clear understanding of statuses, issues affecting final execution, and likely timing of execution

• Posting regular updated statuses in the designated tracking database

• Coordinating with Budget Analysts to ensure that budgets are completed before scheduled contract execution

• Responding promptly to questions from Budgets & Contracts management to secure approval of contracts before contract execution

• Communicating regularly with Sarah Cannon Legal to ensure that contract language is current with changing legal requirements, that sponsor and site concerns are considered, and that contract language is altered to fully comply with current Sarah Cannon philosophy, policies, guidelines, and practices

• Assisting various levels of management and executives with issues related to contracts

• Monitoring timing of contract negotiations and ensuring that established timelines to contract execution are being consistently met

• Representing to affiliated sites the services offered by Sarah Cannon Budgets & Contracts, the value added, and the processes that are required for a productive relationship

• Complying with all Sarah Cannon standard operating procedures and guidelines, Good Clinical Practice, and regulations and guidelines from the International Conference on Harmonization

• Ensuring strict confidentiality of proprietary information

• Engaging in continuous improvement activities that lead to greater efficiency, more timely contract execution, and higher quality; and implementing ideas that are likely to have a favorable impact

• Participating in departmental and cross-functional meetings

• Attending conferences related to contract standards and industry practices, as approved by Sarah Cannon management

• Completing other assigned duties and projects

Mandatory:

• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement”

• During your employment with Sarah Cannon you will be routinely assigned training requirements. You are expected to complete any training assignments by the due date.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

• At least 1 year of experience in contract language​; Negotiating contracts in a Health Care Research setting strongly preferred

• Experienced in negotiation strategies with proven success

• Strong communication, adaptability, and attention to detail

• In-depth understanding of complex contractual language

• Expertise in building and maintaining relationships

• Strong adaptability and problem-solving abilities

• Proactive and self-driven attitude