Clinical Contracts and Payments Manager
Alpine Immune Sciences is applying our platform discovery technology to bring innovative new therapies to people living with serious or life-threatening illnesses or conditions, such as cancer and autoimmune/inflammatory diseases. Exciting challenges lie ahead—guided by our core values, we’ll meet these challenges. Join us!
Primary responsibilities will include leading in the preparation, negotiation, execution, and tracking of study start-up, site, and vendor agreements. The Contract Manager will work directly with CROs and internal functional teams through each contract lifecycle. If you are passionate about your work and looking to make an impact, this is the position for you!
Key Responsibilities:
- In conjunction with AIS legal team to develop and finalize country-specific site/investigator Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) and parameters
- Manage CROs to ensure optimization, quality, and efficiency of CTA and budget negotiations
- Work with Clinical Operations Lead and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) to develop global and country-specific site/investigator study budgets and parameters
- Oversee CROs, and sites/investigators as required to review and negotiate study start-up documents inclusive of Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs), ancillary agreements, amendments, and other contract agreements along with corresponding budgets, as applicable
- Support, negotiate, and track vendor study-related Scope of Work (SOW), Project Work Authorization (PWA), and Change Orders (CO) through execution
- Support in the development of master templates and playbooks
- Identify and escalate contract terms and budgets to AIS Legal, Finance, and other appropriate stakeholders
- Present strategic contracting strategies to the internal and external study team
- Liaise with internal and external study teams to coordinate and review contract and/or budget impact to start-up timelines and activities
- Pinpoint and effectively communicate priorities, risks, and urgencies to applicable stakeholders
- Track contract and budget negotiations utilizing AIS’s contract lifecycle management software, Agiloft
- Facilitate the appropriate approvals and signatures for all applicable agreements
- Review and distribute invoice approval requests and track for Clinical Operations Lead of assigned study(ies)
- Support the AD, Clinical Contracts & Payments
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5-7 years of global contracting experience
- Experience negotiating global site/investigator agreements
- Experience working with CROs strongly preferred
- Strong written, oral communication, interpersonal, and organization skills
- Excellent analytical skills, problem-solving skills, and ability to identify errors, omissions, inconsistencies, and ambiguities
- Ability to effectively prioritize workload and communicate priorities and risks
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Ability to work and adapt in a fast paced, complex, dynamic organization handling multiple projects with tight timelines.
Alpinists share a passion for meaningful work and are committed to solving the most complex problems in immunology to create new therapies for patients. We believe in innovative thinking, collaboration, flexibility, bias for action, and healthy debate. To foster our team of outstanding scientists and business professionals, we provide a premier work environment with a state-of-the-art lab and office spaces with truly inspiring views, and an open design to facilitate teamwork.
Our treasured culture has been shaped by our diverse team who truly enjoys working and playing together. We nurture Alpine’s culture in many ways, including all-company social events and happy hours, lunch-and-learn and education opportunities, interest groups like book club and movie nights, peer-to-peer recognition programs, a robust wellness program to help support physical, mental, and emotional health, and more.
We take care of our employees with competitive benefits package which includes premium medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, wellness programs, FSA and 401(k) plans. We believe that quality time outside the office is vital to our employees’ satisfaction at work. That’s why our flexible PTO plan encourages team members to take time off so they can come back refreshed. Alpine team members enjoy competitive salaries and equity participation (stock options).
Alpine is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Alpine is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
As a condition of employment, Alpine requires that employees are up to date with COVID-19 vaccination. In order to be considered up to date, employees must have completed a primary series of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, followed by a booster dose, as recommended by the CDC. Employees can submit requests for medical or religious exemption so that Alpine can consider possible accommodations.
Our office and lab are located in the blossoming biotech neighborhood of Eastlake in Seattle. Alpinists enjoy the flexibility to work onsite, remotely, or a hybrid schedule, with evolving options as we prioritize keeping Alpinists safe and healthy during the COVID pandemic. Onsite employees enjoy an open-office layout with comfortable huddle rooms and Zoom Room-enabled conference rooms, a spacious breakroom and kitchen with a coffee bar and snacks, and rooftop access to enjoy gorgeous views of Lake Union and Gas Works Park.
Exciting challenges lie ahead—guided by our core values, we’ll meet these challenges. Join us!