Whitney Lanier Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Administers all contract management processes at a project level. • Maintains a consistent open line of communication to strategic customers to provide timeline and issue management and status updates. Collaborates with other Contracts team members to ensure questions and issues addressed by customers (directly or indirectly responsible to) are resolved.• Anticipates risk/benefit issues and troubleshoots to resolve any concerns. • Escalates deviations to department leadership and/or Legal Department. • Identifies possible contract or process operational risk and proactively works within the team to provide solutions. • Reviews contracts for completeness and accuracy, and ensures that corrections are appropriately made and documented. Performs overall quality control review of assigned team contracts.• Communicates and explains legal and budgetary issues to internal and external parties. • Serves as communication liaison between Contracts team and internal and external customers. Leads team in tracking and reporting of all contract statuses and pending issues. Creates and maintains document status reports and updates department team members on a regular basis.• Maintains contract templates, study specific files and databases.• Works closely with Clinical Operations and Finance to ensure the efficient negotiation of contracts and budgets. • Tracks and measures project and team progress through collection of cycle time metrics and other quality key performance indicators (KPIs). Communicates metrics, KPIs and other relevant project information to team and departmental leadership. Proposes solutions to issues that may arise during a project or contract life cycle.

- Serves as communication liaison between Contracts & Functional Services staff and internal and external customers. - Maintain detailed tracking and update of the “Weekly Finance/Contract and Change Order Report” for submittal to the Executive Management Team and Therapeutic Heads.- Develop and provide weekly and quarterly financial to Executive Management. - Create, update and manage Change Order Entries in SalesForce Database.- Set up internal budgets for new Change Orders.- Daily follow-up on Change Orders that are outstanding with sponsors.- Manage and obtain signatures on all Change Orders and Sponsor Contracts by company executives and/or General Counsel; following through with distributing to the operational teams, finance and contracts team.- Facilitate and manage departmental acquisition and integration activities.- Assist in preparation of contracts documentation for projects and coordinates the shipment of documents to sites.- Create and maintain document status reports and update department team members on a regular basis.- Establish strong working relationships with customer and internal project teams.-Manage documents and access for departmental Sharepoint site.

- Create, maintain and track document repository for all study related documents in accordance with guidelines to ensure compliance and security.- Participate in preparation and reconciliation of study documentation including the archival and shipping to sponsors.- Receive and inventory applicable project documents, Trial Master File Documentation, Investigator File Documentation.