Contract Analyst II (CRO Services)

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead and own the contract development process for the development of assigned deliverables that support contracting requirements with clients.
• Create and revise contractual documents for clients including LOIs, SUAs, Work Orders, Change Orders, CNFs, and ancillary documents, as required.
• Create and revise budgets for insertion in and in support of contractual documents, as required.
• Understand how to revise and remap client grids with management support.
• Review projected profit margins on budgets and escalate, as required.
• Maintain internal company trackers and CRM systems for assigned deliverables.
• Maintain departmental folders and filing for all assigned deliverables.
• Perform analysis and research on assigned budgets and/or contracts to support internal stakeholder and/or client inquiries.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives, tool building, template refinement, and reporting and analysis efforts, as needed.
• Support team initiatives and process improvement efforts, as needed.

Job Requirements

• Educational Background: Bachelor's Degree: Life Sciences, Business, or similar degree preferred, but not required if relevant related experience in these fields has been achieved.
• Experience: 2-4 years of experience in proposal development, change order development, project financial analysis, or related functions. Experience in the Clinical Research industry required; CRO experience strongly preferred.

Skills/Competencies

• Independently, consistently, and successfully develop, manage, and deliver multiple contracts of varying types from medium to complex levels of complexity (inclusive of budgets, text, and ancillary documents) with intermediate support from the Line Manager.
• Lead the LOI, SUA, WO, CO, and CNF process for RSD, full service, and FSP opportunities, including gathering all approvals. Minimal process guidance from the Line Manager is needed.
• Multi-task and prioritize workload, be proactive and forward-thinking, and be comfortable challenging operational leadership input.
• Manage delivery timeline milestones with the contract input teams on any given deliverable and maintain clear communication throughout the contracting process for any shifts to the delivery timeline.
• Proactively seek out feedback, responses, and approvals (using email, Microsoft Teams messaging capability, and phone calls/meetings) from project teams in order to meet delivery timelines.
• Problem solve and investigate the source of errors/issues independently before seeking support from management.
• Subject matter expert on simple budget and contract construction and standard processes to the degree that allows effective training/Q&A responses for more junior team members.
• Able to link data and spreadsheets. Navigate MS Excel, customize Excel-driven formulas and trace dependencies, format Word documents and utilize Adobe PDF for deliverable finalization.
• Maintain CRM with relevant and accurate data, as required.
• Able to use SharePoint and Egnyte for file storage needs, as required.