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Canton, Ma, Us

Canton, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston Area

Newton, Ma

• Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated US and ex-US clinical trial agreements, site budgets, and related documents for sponsored clinical trials. • Managed external vendors/CROs providing services to clinical contract/clinical operations teams. Ensured clinical trial agreements and site budgets were in line with Karyopharm guidance and parameters.• Developed study site budget, negotiation parameters and financial terms using study protocol, industry tools and benchmarking.• Provided continuing support on executed vendor agreements, including monitoring ongoing performance of vendors throughout their engagement lifecycle, installed operational corrective action plans as needed, drafted amendments, extensions and terminations, interpreted contractual language for internal functional end-users in response to issues or questions that arose.• Provided continuing support on clinical trial agreements with research sites, including amendments and termination notices.• Worked closely with members of the Clinical Operations and Site Payment teams and other internal clients while participating in regular meetings with internal clients to ensure operational and strategic alignment.• Maintained relevant company systems impacting contracts and/or assigned clinical studies to verify accuracy.• Stayed current on internal company-controlled processes related to department processes and contract management systems. Contributed to existing or new department process guidelines to ensure consistencies and improvement.

Waltham, Ma

• Provided guidance to study management teams, clinical trial managers, Legal, Finance, external service providers and research site personnel.• Facilitated the process of selecting vendors for Clinical Organization. Proposed potential vendors, ensured contract owner/teams clearly defined the specifications of work required from the vendor and developed request for proposal (RFP). • Created proposal comparison documents to ensure the vendors' proposals were analyzed in a fashion where the study teams had the right information to make the optimal vendor selection.• Negotiated contract terms and conditions in collaboration with company legal group, functional teams, and vendors. • Ensured respective vendor scopes of work were clear and comprehensive, with appropriate business terms; including risk mitigation elements. • Negotiated costs with the vendor to ensure reasonable pricing, and prepared contract payment schedules that promoted work progress and fiduciary responsiveness.• Addressed or internally escalated (per quality standards) vendor and/or research site issues as they arose. • Actively contributed to company’s benchmarking to measure company performance against its own history and industry best performance and associated practices.

Boston. Ma

• Supported communications within the IPT while leading the risk management process as it related to sub-contracts. • Worked with technical end-users to draft RFPs including working with functional groups to establish service support needs on a per study basis.• Coordinated and facilitated bid evaluation meetings.• Established and facilitated standardized contracting processes. • Created and maintained shared contracts database. • Tracked contracts for status from bid solicitation through contract execution with regular updates to study teams.• Verified satisfactory completion of contract deliverables with internal technical end-users.• Identified risk/issues and facilitated problem-solving, contingency planning and decision-making around contracts and corresponding vendor management.• Contributed to the creation and maintenance of the integrated budget and schedule with respect to the company’s earned value management system to be reported back to the customer.• Determined contract-based schedule and cost variances and helped to develop corresponding corrective action plans.• Managed contracts in coordination with Program Management, Program Controls, subcontractors and the customer.