Contracts Coordinator Job

CONTRACTS COORDINATOR needed for a CONTRACT opportunity with Yoh's client located in Sw iftwater, PA.

The Big Picture - Top Skills Should You Possess:
- Budget/contract experience
- Expertise in Microsoft Word applications
- Knowledge of life sciences and clinical trial administration

What You'll Be Doing:
- Support Clinical Program Managers, Operational Spend Managers and the Business Support Manager in overseeing the operational spend. Work with Clinical Program Managers and Representatives of the functional platforms (eg Data Management, Study Management and Logistics, Biostatistics, Medical Writing) to gather the documents for contract execution and maintain links with Legal, Finance and Procurement in order to supervise the contract signature process.
- Manage preparation of stand-alone contracts with internal contractors in collecting documents and finalizing the process through contract signature.
- Ensure contract milestone payments are accurately depicted in the appropriate budget tracking tool and follow up on outstanding milestone payments with the functional platform representative until resolution.
- During the budgetary exercise, support Clinical Program Managers, Operational Spend Managers, Business Support managers along with Global Heads of functional platforms in estimation of the Investigator fees and outsourcing budget using internal tools and metrics. Responsibilities include providing budget reports that will be extracted from internal reporting tools, confirming that invoices are accurate and verify what has been paid to date.
- Develop expertise in current systems (eShopping, OPX2, SAP) and in any new systems (eg, NEXTs) to support Clinical Program Management responsibilities.
- Manage the Business Support database (structure, upgrade, data entry) and support Clinical Program Managers, Operational Spend Managers, Clinical Program Management and Business Support Management in providing reports to upper management.
- Work in collaboration with staff from Clinical Program Management and functional platforms to capture operational information, such as confirmation of project milestones, verifying project specific data, (eg project start and stop dates) and contractual out of scope changes that may lead to project extensions.
- Provide project specific cost information from internal tools that will be used by the operational platforms for the meetings with strategic partners
- Support transparency initiative through entry of required information into the transparency portal, resolve discrepancies between internal information and the vendor and provide reports to management as requested
- Work with CPM Global Head to develop tools to streamline outsourcing activities.

What You Need to Bring to the Table:
- Associate's degree in a Business type major (ie Finance, Accounting, Administrative Management)
- Knowledge of life sciences and clinical trial administration is an asset.
- Strong expertise with WORD, EXCEL, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with NEXTS, eShopping, SAP, and other ARIBA tools.
- Ability to work in a Global team environment.
- Self-Motivation.
- Good English Communication skills. (Verbal and Written)

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? APPLY NOW!

RECRUITER: Kara Lloyd

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