Manager, Contracts & Budget

Manager, Contracts & Budget

The Manager will be responsible for leading and mentoring a team of Contract and Budget Specialists within the Global Clinical Contract Operations department, driving strategic initiatives, ensuring operational excellence, and achieving organizational goals. This role requires strong leadership skills, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. The manager will be ensuring the support to divisional clinical teams for the creation, negotiation, and finalization of site agreements and budgets for medical device clinical trials across multiple therapeutic areas. Collaboration with internal stakeholders will be at the heart of the role, ensuring seamless execution and fostering impactful partnerships.

Your responsibilities will include :

• Lead a group or team of employees in the achievement of organizational goals.
• Guide, coach, direct, and develop direct reports.
• Provides formal day-to-day supervision and support team including setting performance and productivity expectations, coaching on performance and development, coordinating activities, checking on quality and work progress
• Participate on the process of employee and contractor selection, which includes liaise with talent acquisition and related HR partners, conduction of interview and active participation on decisional brainstorm for the selection of the most appropriate candidates.
• To select contractors, work with procurement or directly with agencies.
• Collaborate with the procurement team to establish contracts and follow up to create the Purchase Order.
• Ensure contractor contracts are renewed on time and update SuccessFactor to keep their network and email accounts active.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.
• Participation on the resource forecast, seek for an appropriate level of information from divisional partners to facilitate the accuracy of the forecast model.
• Assures that appropriate resources (personnel, tools, etc.) are maintained in order to assure Quality System compliance and adherence to the BSC Quality Policy.
• Close collaborating with the legal team management to ease cross-team interactions
• Close collaboration with Trial Operations Managers (Global) to establish alignment on timelines and site authorization priorities
• Act as reference manager for assigned studies which include participating on the study kickoff meeting, collaborating with Divisional partners, Trial Managers, and Managers to ensure strategy alignment, ensure other C&B / FMV managers are informed to any relevant study information, participation on Study core team call to support the Lead C&B, and be the Point of contact as first level on the contract and budget escalation process.

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