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Parexel

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Act as the single point of contact for high-priority or complex contracting structures and strategies • Plan and resolve contracting issues with minimal oversight • Exercise independent judgment in site contracting, balancing client risk against clinical trial timeline impacts • Manage contract and budget escalations from FSP and pCRO ICLs • Develop, negotiate, track, and execute global clinical study agreements with institutions and investigators • Lead ICL, pCRO, and FSP negotiators in achieving study goals • Partner with Legal, Finance, pCRO, and other divisions to manage escalations and identify improvements • Develop relationships with investigational sites and Site Management Organizations across contracting and budgeting • Collaborate with invoicing specialists and invoice service providers on site contracting and compensation requirements • Contribute to major business initiatives and special projects • Maintain compliance with Parexel processes, ICH-GCPs, and applicable requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and 7+ years of experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing, OR Master's Degree or equivalent and 5+ years, OR Juris Doctorate or equivalent and 2+ years • Significant experience with clinical study budgets and contracting negotiation principles, practices, processes, and activities • Advanced knowledge of site contracting and budgets • Fluency in written and spoken English • Strengths in contract negotiation, site budgeting, and cross-functional stakeholder management • Experience in clinical research, clinical trial outsourcing, or a regulated environment • Ability to lead by influence rather than positional authority • Detail-oriented mindset with precise communication and presentation skills • Comfort working in highly matrixed, global organizations across Legal, Finance, and CRO partner teams • Preferred: expertise drafting and negotiating Clinical Trial Agreements with clinical trial sites in a global operation • Preferred: experience managing contracting within an FSP or CRO model • Preferred: familiarity with pCRO and FSP contracting structures and escalation frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Continuous learning opportunities • Opportunity to deepen expertise and expand influence across global clinical research operations • Diverse teams • Growth-oriented environment