Senior Site Contract Specialist (Sponsor-Dedicated/ Remote- Canada)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
 
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
 
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Are you an experienced clinical contracts and budget professional looking to make a strategic impact? We are seeking a Senior Site Contract Specialist to support a leading global biopharmaceutical sponsor. In this role, you will optimize clinical research support activities by providing smart business solutions to complex contracting, budget, compensation, and payment structures that enable successful clinical trial execution.

This position is remote within Canada, with a strong preference for candidates located in Ontario. Candidates in Eastern and Central time zones will also be considered. Occasional travel to sponsor offices for team meetings may be required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Public Health, Life Sciences, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 3–5 years of experience managing site contracts, budgets, and financial aspects of clinical research studies within a CRO, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology environment.

• Strong knowledge of:

  • Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs)

  • Clinical trial budgets and negotiations

  • Clinical trial start-up processes

  • ICH-GCP and Health Canada requirements

• Strong site contracting expertise with a proven track record of negotiating complex agreements and driving on-time study activation.

• Strong communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Veeva Clinical Contracts & Payments and grant tracking systems.

• Experience working in a Sponsor-Dedicated/FSP model.

• Knowledge of clinical trial payment processes and study forecasting.

• Experience supporting process improvement initiatives and mentoring junior team members.

• Develop, negotiate, and execute Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs), amendments, budgets, and related study documents.

• Manage clinical trial budgets throughout the study lifecycle, including budget development, negotiation, forecasting, and payment processing.

• Serve as a key business liaison between Clinical Operations, Finance, Legal, Procurement, FSP partners, vendors, and investigative sites.

• Provide expertise and guidance on study contract and budget management to internal stakeholders.

• Analyze study requirements and develop creative contracting and compensation solutions that support site participation and protocol execution.

• Manage financial aspects of clinical study contracts and budgets utilizing Veeva Clinical Contracts & Payments and grant tracking systems.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to implement processes, work instructions, and guidelines that align with business objectives and sponsor expectations.

• Identify contractual, operational, and financial risks and proactively develop solutions.

• Support multi-country contracting activities and ensure compliance with sponsor requirements, ICH-GCP guidelines, and Health Canada regulations.

• Maintain accurate contract documentation, reporting, milestone tracking, and Trial Master File (TMF) records.

• Contribute to process improvements, best practices, and training initiatives within Site Start-Up and Clinical Operations.

• Join a high-visibility role that combines contracts, budgets, financial management, and clinical operations.

• Work directly with a leading global pharmaceutical sponsor in a dedicated partnership model.

• Influence study success by driving creative business solutions and improving clinical trial execution.

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders while supporting innovative therapies that make a difference for patients worldwide.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.