Site Budgeting and Contracting Specialist - FSP

Job Title: Site Budgeting and Contracting Specialist - FSP Job Location: Durham Job Location Type: Remote Job Contract Type: Full-time Job Seniority Level: Fortrea's FSP team is hiring Budget Builder & Site Contract Specialist! Home Based in USA or Canada. Must have 2+ years of budget/contract negotiation experience at CRO level, direct site facing experience and experience building global budget templates. As part of a global team you will be responsible for preparing country site budgets and study financial appendices, assisting with the negotiation of site agreement budgets and financial exhibits of a certain complexity. Responsibilities include: Develop Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) utilizing standard templates and information from Contract Information Sheets. Ensure CTAs are executed in a timely manner in order to meet expected timelines for study start-up. Liaise with the legal departments to ensure any content changes to the CTAs are mutually agreeable, and in accordance with client's legally approved standard agreement language. Participate in Study kick-off meetings to obtain necessary information required for effective CTA execution Solid understanding of standard contract language to enable decision making pertaining to sections of CTAs when language modifications are proposed by external contract parties. If language is not compliant, discuss issues with legal and work with the legal department, sites, contractors or vendors to resolve them. Generate site budgets based on final approved country budget in preparation for distribution to sites and following up with investigators. Research medical procedure costs using local or global database in order to provide accurate data for development of the site level budgets to allow Country Lead Monitors/Study Managers to calculate the latest average costs on procedures for their new studies. Manage CTAs ensuring all changes to agreements and corresponding components are updated according to client’s legal sta