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

Key responsibilities and day-to-day activities

- Establishes, maintains and updates training material for investigator budget team and site contract negotiators.

- Serves as subject matter expert equipped to help resolve global site budgeting issues, and escalation point for internal customers to seek assistance.

- Proposes site budgeting solutions to issues that may arise during a project or contract/budget life cycle to enhance negotiation strategy and ensure deliverables are met.

- Establishes project strategies around investigator budget template development and/or budget negotiation parameters to reflect specifications, communications and required processes. Initiates and introduces creative ideas and solutions.

- Develops detailed investigator grant budget estimates and country budget templates according to - protocol specifications through currently available software package/resources.

- Updates detailed investigator grant budget estimates and country budget templates according to protocol amendment specifications through currently available software package/resources.

- Works closely with internal stakeholders to draft and harmonize investigator budget templates, investigator budget parameters and payment terms within clients' processes.

- Ensures investigator budget templates are drafted and updated taking into consideration fair market value and key operational aspects indicated in the relevant operational documents (e.g. protocol, Integrated Site Activation and Maintenance Plan, etc.).

- Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with study teams to ensure site budget templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.

- Validates investigator grant budget estimates against available internal and external benchmarking data.
- Identifies possible investigator budget or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions.

- Escalates deviations to senior management and is equipped to resolve issues with Quality Assurance.

- Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis; ensures appropriate documentation is maintained.

Must-have qualifications

• BS degree in life sciences, a health related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong experience in a CRO/pharmaceutical industry and related clinical trial expertise (Study Coordinator, CRA, Pharmacy, Nursing, Healthcare Administration) or site start-up experience.
• Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of progressive investigator budgeting experience.
• Thorough knowledge of applicable regulations, drug development and clinical project management procedures.
• Strong presentation, documentation and interpersonal skills. Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, outlook and Internet.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines, delivering high quality work in a dynamic environment.
• Above-average attention to detail, effective oral/written communication skills along with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines.
• Strong leadership skills; ability to teach/mentor team members.
• Strong background in issue resolution, meeting customer deliverables and driving best practices at organization or customer portfolio level.

• Advanced knowledge of Grantplan or comparable benchmarking software

• Strong ability to read and interpret clinical trial protocols for the purposes of identifying expenses that will be incurred by site participation on the study.

• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (GCPs) as relates to clinical trial management required

• Good understanding of Fair Market Value principles

At  Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.  Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Salary Range:

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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.