Assistant Manager/Manager - Contract/Proposal Specialist - Clinical Research

Job Title: - Contract/Proposal Specialist

Level: - Asst. Manager / Manager

Experience: - 3-5 years of experience in contracting for CROs

Age Band: - 30 - 45

Reporting to: - Chief Manager, BD and Strategy

Location: - Faridabad

Salary: 10 lpa - 15 lpa

Role Responsibilities:

- Prepare draft contract documents, including Start-up Agreements, Work Orders and Change Orders in conjunction with relevant departments

- Amend project budgets as required

- Direct client interaction with established project contacts

- Provide quality client deliverables meeting strict deadlines

- Facilitate review and approval in accordance with relevant policies and procedures

- Communicate with and inform the Project / Study of ongoing budget changes and provide finance system load ready budget tools in accordance with relevant policies and procedures

- Participate in contract review meetings with clients and internal customers

- Review client contractual templates with support from Project /Study Manager and edit as appropriate to ensure positions are covered and to highlight areas of potential concern

- Ensure contracts with client edits received back from the client show all the appropriate changes

- Customize templates to meet client template requirements or use Client's template, if available

- Ensure contractual documents are processed into and maintained in relevant databases

- May customize templates approved by Legal for the relevant entities and post current copies on the Business Operations folders

- Participate in the development and testing of tools and procedures

- Will write compelling proposals, which will include drafting and strategically evaluating proposal budgets.

- Provide overall management for the proposal process, including coordination of all key operational areas, preparation of text and budgets, and review for basic proposals.

- Ensure smooth transition of awarded proposals to the Contracts Team, which may include first-run revisions/negotiations to text and budgets for newly awarded projects.

- Under the direction of Pre-Sales management, will provide overall management for the proposal process on larger more complicated more opportunities