Job Overview
Direct, oversee and manage the contracts, proposals and other designated processes for assigned customers to efficiently produce accurate and timely proposals, contracts, change orders and pricing.;
Essential Functions
• Serve as an advisor on contracts, proposals and / or other designated processes and provide expert review and guidance for production of Proposal/Contracts Group deliverables, such as proposals, contracts and change orders.
• Develop relationships with assigned customers and ensure high quality deliverables and customer service by overseeing the accurate and timely production of information to customers regarding contracts, change orders and pricing.
• Develop and negotiate change orders and drive the change order process, to maximize profit on each contract and ensuring timely revenue recognition.
• Key customer interface for assigned customers, ensuring consistency in approach, metric and format and serve as an as an escalation point to resolve any issues.
• Contribute to discussions on implementation of Contracts and Proposals strategy on a global basis.
• Ensure team follow global processes to deliver a quality product to customers.
• Develop and implement processes with a primary focus on increasing customer satisfaction and by creating efficiencies while maintaining consistency among all teams.
• Provide direction and strategy on projects and initiatives with minimal oversight.
• Maintain a focus and actively work toward attainment of all corporate goals (including but not limited to revenue, sales, and employee retention) and implements strategies to achieve those goals.
• May take a lead role in developing and negotiating MSA.
• Negotiate contractual documents, in consultation with Legal and/or Finance, as required.
• Provide regular updates to management regarding pending Contracts deliverables.
• Participate in bid defense, customer meetings and on task forces.
• Provide advice, support and guidance as needed and serve as a mentor to colleagues.
• Perform other duties as required.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's Degree in Life Science, Business Management or related field and 12 years experience in Contracts or Proposals or
equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.; Req
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• Knowledge of CRO Industry.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and understanding of costing models.
• Excellent knowledge of contract, proposals and budget processes and ability to interpret budgets and protocols.
• Possess strong analytical skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and customers.
Our idea of the right candidate:
Have a strong common sense, with analytical and critical thinking skills. Ability to speak their mind and explain reasons for clinical strategy proposed. Listen to needs and concerns of others with a willingness to accommodate strategy alterations, and supply information on the relative impacts (for example if the team wants to use RBM but it is actually more expensive than 100% SDV as the subject to site ratio is low and the CRF is not especially large).
Have a functional understanding of how assumption changes functionally impact across service lines. An understanding of each component of a clinical trial process. Don’t need to know everything, just some things most relevant to each operational group. How changes in things like timelines, treatment duration, follow-up duration, recruitment rates by country, CRF size, SAE rates, number of programmed edit checks, Bios T/L/G outputs, interim analysis inclusion, interim vs final CSR, site considerations, would impact across cross-functionally in the various operational groups.
Knowledge of how each operational step is influenced by the steps that run concurrent or preceding them. If your goal is a quality CSR for Regulatory purposes, you won’t succeed if there is a poorly designed protocol, or a poorly planned data management plan, clinical monitoring plan, or statistical analysis plan (as examples). The quality of the whole is the sum of the quality of the pieces.
Be a resource to the proposal and contract staff that you interact with in explaining why a particular strategy is proposed and things to be considered moving forward as changes in contracting with client and specific assumptions may change and their impacts. Those that are self-motivated can learn and apply appropriately in future situations via upskilling.
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