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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.