Contract Negotiation and Budget Specialist at Novo Nordisk

The Position

• Your main activities will include negotiation contract language and budget directly with clinical sites, draft original contracts for clinical sites and vendors in cooperation and under supervision of Clinical Contracts & Budgets Manager, Contracts Team Manager, Legal Manager, Local Legal/Law Firm. You will manage commercial and contractual relationship with investigators and clinical sites to meet timelines and demands of assigned clinical trials. You will establish and maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, deliver assigned activities proactively, independently and in accordance with NN Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs).

Key responsibilities also include:

• Escalate changes to legal language and budget requests other than previously approved to appropriate stakeholders (Clinical Contracts & Budgets Manager, CDC Trial Start-up Manager, CDC Trial Manager, Local Legal/Law Firm). Maintain status report on negotiation process and activities.
• Secure planned execution dates of contracts, meeting timelines and ensuring all stakeholders involved are notified of the status.
• Ensure any delays in planned contract execution dates are addressed and reported in a timely manner to Clinical Contracts & Budgets Manager.
• Collaborate with Clinical Trial Administrators on signing, shipping, and repository of contractual documents, interact independently with investigators, clinical site staff, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Follows up the contractual process in appropriate electronic systems (e.g. Coupa)

Qualifications

• Min. Bachelor’s degree, in Legal/Financial would be advantage.
• Min. 2 years of clinical research contracting experience from a similar position in the pharmaceutical industry, Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) or clinical site.
• IT proficiency: MS Office, clinical trial systems (e.g., Veeva, NovoTime, Coupa).
• Fluent English, read, verbal and writing skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, team oriented personality with high degree of flexibility.
• Ability to work in a structured and pro-active manner as well as part of the different trial teams.
• Excellent communication skills, excellent organization and long-term planning skills
• High focus on details.
• Ability and willingness to adjust quickly to new situations in a continuously developing environment, ability to manage multiple priorities.
• High degree of trustworthiness, proven decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.
• Act as an ambassador for NN values.