Develop and manage clinical change order budgets for biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma clients. Coordinate with business development, finance, contracts, and project management teams; schedule and consolidate budget inputs; resolve issues; calculate resource and service fees; analyze costs; and support customer budget presentations. The role requires understanding CRO services and clinical trial processes, strong mathematics and accounting fundamentals, advanced Microsoft Office skills, and excellent organization and communication.
Premier Research is looking for a Senior Change Orders Associate to join our Proposal & Contracts team.
You will help biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma companies transform life-changing ideas and breakthrough science into new medicines, devices, and diagnostics. What we do is profoundly connected to saving and improving lives, and we recognize our team members are the most valuable asset in delivering success.
We are here to help you grow, to give you the skills and opportunities to excel at work with the flexibility and balance your life requires.
Your ideas influence the way we work, and your voice matters here.
As an essential part of our team, you help us deliver the medical innovation that patients are desperate for.
Join us and build your future here.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Promote commercial and operational success through collaboration with operational departments to ensure appropriate budget development for all clinical change orders.
- Effectively interfaces with the Business Development group, Finance group, the Contract Development group, Global Project Managers, and Regional Project Managers to achieve an accurate and appropriate budget.
- Effectively manages the budget development lifecycle for Change Order budgets, as needed, throughout the study.
- Ensures appropriate contributors are involved, sets budget development schedule, coordinates and collates input to meet final budget timelines; identifies, assess, resolves and/or escalates issues as needed
- Prepares appropriate resource/service fees using algorithms and electronic spreadsheets, which may also include assisting in departmental reviews, analyzing final costs and providing feedback to appropriate stakeholders for input
- If requested, works with Business Development or Project Management to interact with or present Change Order budget to customers
What We Are Searching For:
- Undergraduate degree or its international equivalent preferably in the Sciences or Business Administration/ Marketing, from an accredited institution
- Minimum of five year’s relevant industry experience, which includes a minimum of three years’ experience in the budget development process
- Demonstrates an understanding of CRO services, including knowledge of the processes and procedures for conducting a clinical trial, to ensure the production of an appropriate Final or Change Order budget
- Good mathematics skills, including ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages; and the ability to apply basic concepts of accounting and finance
- Advanced computer skills with Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Word
- Ability to multitask and work effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
- Excellent organizational, communication and time-management skills, able prioritize work to meet deadlines
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