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Worldwide Clinical Trials

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Worldwide Clinical Trials is a global contract research organization (CRO) that provides comprehensive clinical trial services. They specialize in supporting studies across diverse therapeutic areas such as oncology, cardiology, and rare diseases. With over 30 years of experience, Worldwide Clinical Trials emphasizes personalized support and customized solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of drug development. Their services include clinical monitoring, data management, patient recruitment, and regulatory consulting, ensuring precision and tailored attention for each clinical trial.

📋 Description

• Review, redline, comment on, and negotiate MSAs, including sponsor-provided templates and amendments to existing MSAs. • Review, draft, revise, and negotiate CDAs, MSA amendments, contract notices, ad hoc sponsor agreements, and other sponsor-facing contract documents. • Apply internal contract guidance documents, playbooks, approved fallback positions, and Worldwide standard clauses when reviewing and revising sponsor templates and proposed contract language. • Identify contract terms that create legal, operational, financial, regulatory, or business risk; independently resolve routine issues; and escalate material, non-standard, or higher-risk issues to Legal, Finance, Operations, Business Development, Therapeutic Leaders, senior management, and other stakeholders as appropriate. • Draft and propose alternative contract language that supports business objectives while protecting Worldwide’s legal and commercial interests. • Evaluate the commercial and operational impact of contract terms, including implications for revenue, payment terms, scope, timelines, deliverables, and operational execution. • Manage assigned contracts from intake through review, negotiation, internal approval, finalization, execution, and recordkeeping, prioritizing matters based on deal urgency, revenue impact, sponsor needs, and business priorities. • Lead and participate in sponsor/client calls to discuss contract terms, resolve open issues, explain Worldwide positions, and align on next steps while representing the company professionally and constructively. • Collaborate with and influence internal stakeholders to ensure contract terms accurately reflect the agreed scope of work, budget, payment terms, operational commitments, and sponsor requirements. • Coordinate with Legal Counsel and internal approvers to obtain guidance, approvals, and alignment on non-standard or higher-risk contract language. • Ensure negotiated changes are accurately incorporated into final agreements, amendments, exhibits, schedules, and related contract materials, and that final contract packages are complete, internally approved, and execution-ready. • Maintain accurate contract records, status updates, and reporting in Salesforce, Worldwide’s finance system, contract trackers, and other applicable systems. • Attend internal project handover, escalation, and alignment meetings as needed to support contract development, negotiation, and finalization. • Recommend improvements to templates, playbooks, workflows, escalation processes, and contracting standards to support consistency, efficiency, and quality across sponsor contracts.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, contracts management, healthcare administration, life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience required; JD preferred but not required. • Minimum 5 years of experience reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and managing commercial contracts, with at least 3 years of experience in CRO, clinical research, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences, or sponsor-facing contracting preferred. • Demonstrated experience independently managing sponsor-facing contract matters, including MSAs, sponsor-provided templates, CDAs, MSA amendments, contract notices, and other commercial agreements. • Experience applying contract guidance documents, playbooks, standard clauses, and approved fallback positions with sound judgment and appropriate escalation. • Experience working directly with internal stakeholders and sponsors to resolve contract issues, support negotiations, and move contract matters to completion. • Familiarity with contract management systems, CRM platforms, Salesforce.com, Microsoft Word redlining, Excel trackers, and document-management processes preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusion and diversity in the workplace • Supportive teams