Legal Business Partner- Clinical Ops

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Job Description: Job Overview: The Position will oversee the cross-functional execution of Clinical Contracts to ensure consistency and quality while identifying and solving any issues that potentially would delay the negotiation and execution of site contracts. CM acts as Contract Lead (CL) in a project and directly supports the study Project Manager by collaboration with Clinical Trial Regulatory Manager (CTRM), Study Startup Lead (SSUL), and assigned personnel from the start-up functional areas: Site Contracts, Site Budgets, Feasibility and Country Specialists. The CL provides Clinical Contracts strategy, and expertise to deliver timely negotiation of site contracts and budgets and to ensure accurate forecasts of contract execution timelines to support cross functional coordination and delivery of site activations. The strategy will reflect the CL’s prior site contract and budget experience and technical knowledge of contract negotiations, budget fair market value practices, applicable legal theories and regulations including GDPR, and administrative requirements of participating study sites and countries. Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Act as the CL for the assigned countries and regions participating directly at kick-off meetings, sponsor calls providing the client with procedural and legal guidance, and study updates and advice as how to expedite and facilitate site contract execution. • Prepare the forecast of all Clinical Contract intermediate steps and oversees the execution in order to achieve contractual milestones. • Manage the Contracts Specialists and any other staff negotiating contracts with sites (CN) appointed to the project and ensuring they are included and granted access to all applicable study specific systems including appropriate Egnyte folder, D365, eTMF, and study startup system accesses. • Accountable for creation of all study specific contract templates within assigned countries of oversight, through either direct drafting of templates or collaboration with assigned CN • Work directly with Project Manager and Sponsor to develop cohesive contract negotiation guidelines and parameters, escalation pathways, and establishment of Sponsor specific signature requirements as applicable. • Work directly with Project Manager, Grants Administration, Sponsor, and local Country Experts (including CN as applicable) to develop country specific site budget templates, negotiation benchmarks, and escalation and fair market value assessment procedures and pathways. • Responsible for accurate forecasting of site contract execution dates and communicating timelines to key stakeholders to ensure timely activation of study sites, including oversight of site contracts and budget status entries in applicable tracking system(s) • Collaborate with CN to resolve negotiation impasses with site contracts and budgets, including direct contract and budget negotiation with study sites when appropriate • Conduct fair market value assessments of budget items that fall outside of negotiation benchmarks and as applicable to facilitate Sponsor approval or provide direct approval when authorized • Serve as internal point of escalation to facilitate resolution of legal language negotiations, including approval of contract terms when authorized • Responsible for maintaining and updating country specific contract templates in assigned countries of oversight within the Clinical Contracts CTA template repository • Supports the development and creation of contracts related departmental intelligence tools • Serves as mentor to fellow Clinical Contracts team members to assist in departmental outstanding of complex contracts issues • Serves as contracts related subject matter expert within the department and in a cross departmental capacity. • May be called upon to conduct trainings Supervisory Responsibilities: No supervisory responsibilities. Job Requirements: • Education o BA/BS degree in related field, with an advance degree preferred o L

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