INVESTIGATOR CONTRACT LEAD 2

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INVESTIGATOR CONTRACT LEAD 2
About the role:
Investigator Contracts Lead is responsible for direct site-facing contract and budget negotiations through contract execution with assigned clinical investigator sites including initial agreements and amendments and oversight of other contracting professionals on assigned studies. This also includes managing the Per-Subject Cost (PSC) process for assigned studies, managing escalation and resolution for budget and non-legal term issues from other ICL or pCRO and collaborating with other lines to plan site contracting timelines through start-up. This role may also act as a single point of contact for studies with high priority or complex or unique contracting structures and strategies and is expected to be able to plan and solve for this situations with minimum oversight.
Main responsibilities:

• Exercise independent judgement and decision making in areas of site contracting with moderate supervision.
• Effective management of contract and budget escalations from FSP / pCRO ICL with limited consultation.
• Make appropriate decisions, with limited oversight while balancing the risks for Pfizer in making budget and contractual choices against the impacts to Pfizer clinical trial timelines.
• Problem solving for site contracting issues of moderate complexity. This includes suggesting and implementing unique solutions, as needed, to achieve study goals
• Follow GPD processes to develop, negotiate, track and execute global clinical study agreements with institutions and investigators participating in sponsored clinical trials.
• Work with partners to develop and oversee the global site budget process.
• Work with clinical trial sites and directly negotiate cost, business and contractual terms and conditions with investigators/institutions, making changes to contract templates within the Legal division approved parameters.
• Lead and develop relationships with key investigational sites and Site Management Organizations across the contracting and budgeting interface.
• Lead other ICL, pCRO and FSP negotiators in achieving study goals with moderate support from site contracting team leads. Act as primary study point of contract for site contracting issues and timelines on assigned studies.
• Partner with Legal and other divisions to manage escalations in the site budgeting and contracting space.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, pCRO and other divisions to identify and implement areas of improvement in the site contracting space.
• Has advanced knowledge of the principles, concepts and theories in site contracting and budgets.
• Collaborates with invoicing specialists and/or invoice service provider to ensure alignment with Investigative Site contracting and compensation requirements.
• Applies acquired job skills and procedures to complete substantive assignments, projects and tasks of moderate scope and complexity in applicable discipline.
• Contributes to design, development and implementation of major business initiatives or special projects. Applies technical skills and discipline knowledge to contribute to achievement of business objectives at GPD or WSR Functional Line level - e.g., WSR Worldwide Safety, WSR Worldwide Regulatory Operations, GPD Clinical Development & Operations, etc.

About you:
Basic Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Significant experience with clinical study budgets and contracting negotiation principles, practices, processes, and activities.
• Balance of general business, compliance, finance, legal, and drug development experience.
• Precise communications and presentation skills.
• Ability to plan, identify and mitigate risks to site contacting timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead by influence rather than positional power to accomplish critical deliverables.
• Demonstrated success in working in a highly matrix-based organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong years of experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing with a master's degree.
• Significant years of experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing with a Juris Doctorate (or equivalent).
• Expertise in drafting and negotiating of Clinical Trial Agreements with clinical trial sites in a global operation.

What do we offer?
Innovative company Pfizer has a pipeline full of innovative medicines for a variety of conditions. As a Pfizer colleague, you'll have the opportunity to maximize the impact of medicines for patients in a variety of ways. In short, you make a real difference.
Development opportunities We are always looking for top talent. We believe you will never stop learning and there will always be a new opportunity for your development. That is why we have broad opportunities in the Belux organization. There are regular opportunities for training or to gain experience in a different field or even advancement to an international position.
A culture where you can be yourself We are a large, international organization with people from all over the world. At Pfizer everyone should be able to be themselves, that's what we strive for and live by.
Work/life balance At Pfizer, we know that if you really want to make an impact on people's lives, it's important that your people are at their best. That's why we offer our colleagues good working conditions, such as an appropriate salary and opportunities to work from home. Working a lot of overtime is not the norm for us. We also believe that work and having fun should go hand in hand. That's why, for example, you can participate in all kinds of activities outside of work.
Are you interested?
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Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
Pfizer's aim is to provide equality of opportunity in the recruitment process by avoiding any bias or potential discrimination on any grounds including (but not limited to): sex, age, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or disability. At Pfizer we are creating an organization and promoting a culture that respects each individual's unique character and life experiences and reflects the diversity of our society, customers and markets. We will achieve this through fostering and sustaining an environment in which every colleague feels valued and supported.
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