Associate Director, Contracts – National Center for Clinical Trials

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $54 - $82 / hour

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👔 Director

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Advocate Aurora Health

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $10.2M Grant on 2019-08

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

Advocate Aurora Health is a leading healthcare organization that operates across various regions including Central Chicagoland, Central Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee, and more. With a diverse range of career areas such as advanced practice clinicians, behavioral health, nursing, and more, Advocate Aurora Health is committed to helping people live well. The organization offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career advancement, fostering an environment where individuals can thrive and innovate in the healthcare sector. Advocate Aurora Health prioritizes the safety of its candidates and maintains a robust recruitment process to protect sensitive information.

📋 Description

• Provides operational leadership and oversight for enterprise clinical research contracting activities supporting industry-sponsored clinical research • Directs the clinical trial contracts team, including selection, coaching, development, performance management, and workload allocation • Oversees negotiation, review, execution, and management of Clinical Trial Agreements, Confidential Disclosure Agreements, Master Clinical Trial Agreements, amendments, and other research-related agreements • Monitors contract performance metrics, turnaround times, service levels, and operational workloads • Develops and implements strategies to improve efficiency, quality, and customer service • Maintains standardized contract templates, workflows, negotiation strategies, and best practices • Collaborates with investigators, research administration, legal counsel, finance, compliance, regulatory affairs, and operational stakeholders • Provides guidance and resolution for high-risk or complex contractual negotiations • Supports research administration systems and technologies for contract management, reporting, and operational efficiency • Prepares and presents operational reports, dashboards, and performance analyses to research administration leadership • Ensures contracting activities and supervised employees comply with organizational policies, applicable regulations, and governing laws

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; equivalent years of direct research administration experience or applicable professional certifications may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree • Minimum seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in clinical research, research administration, clinical trial contracting, grants and contracts administration, or related healthcare research environment • Minimum three (3) years of leadership, supervisory, or management experience overseeing staff involved in research administration, contracting, or related operational functions • Knowledge of clinical research regulations, sponsor-funded research administration processes, and clinical trial agreement requirements • Knowledge of Clinical Trial Agreements, Confidential Disclosure Agreements, Master Clinical Trial Agreements, amendments, and related research contracts • Knowledge of contractual provisions including intellectual property, publication rights, confidentiality, subject injury, indemnification, insurance, and data use terms • Strong contract negotiation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills • Ability to analyze complex contractual language and communicate business, legal, and operational impacts to diverse audiences • Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills • Ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment • Demonstrated leadership, coaching, mentoring, and personnel management abilities • Strong oral, written, and presentation communication skills • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and research administration technology platforms • Ability to evaluate operational metrics and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency, quality, and service delivery • Occasional travel for meetings, training, or organizational initiatives may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits Eligible • Competitive compensation • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job • Incentive pay for select positions • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance • Paid Time Off programs • Medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability benefits • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses • Adoption assistance • Paid parental leave • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match • Other financial wellness programs • Educational Assistance Program