Senior Contract Analyst

At ICON, it’s our people that set us apart. Our diverse teams enable us to become a better partner to our customers and help us to fulfil our mission to advance and improve patients’ lives.

Our ‘Own It’ culture is driven by four key values that bring us together as individuals and set us apart as an organisation: Accountability & Delivery, Collaboration, Partnership and Integrity. We want to be the Clinical Research Organisation that delivers excellence to our clients and to patients at every touch-point. In short, to be the partner of choice in drug development.

That’s our vision. We’re driven by it. And we need talented people who share it.
If you’re as driven as we are, join us. You’ll be working in a dynamic and supportive environment, with some of the brightest and friendliest people in the sector, and you’ll be helping shape an industry.

The role of the Senior Contract Analyst is to coordinate, develop, negotiate, and execute all client/sponsor contracts and change orders for newly awarded and on-going projects, and to peer review and QC projects as assigned.

**The role**:

- Recognize, exemplify and adhere to ICON's values which are based on our commitment to People, Clients and Performance.

Contract/Change Order Development:

- Coordinate, develop, and negotiate contracts and change orders for newly awarded and on-going projects at ICON.
- Work simultaneously on numerous contracts and/or change orders. Management of strategic clients /complicated budgets.
- Independently manage and prioritize workload in relation to timelines and client submissions with consistent accuracy and speed.
- Develop a good working knowledge of ICON’s costing tools, client budget grids, and any tools and templates developed within the client contract services group.
- Lead discussion and negotiation with clients related to the contractual document ( Start-up Agreements, standalone contracts) and project budgets
- Detailed knowledge of operational department’s tasks and roles within the task as well as cost drivers within ICON.
- Solicit input and review of contracts and change orders from the relevant operational departments.
- Understand reasons and challenge supporting information provided by the project team related to budget changes (timeline, specifications, tasks, hours, etc.) and that the budget changes are reasonable and justified.
- Understand and interpret legal language contained in a MSA, Start-up Agreements and standalone contracts.
- Recognize when client questions/comments need required input and review by Legal and/or operations/senior management.
- Lead discussion and negotiation with ICON Legal and Sales Team to determine the appropriate terms and conditions to be included in the contracts (inclusive of Start-up Agreements) and change orders.
- Provide the relevant information, analysis, recommendations required, and solution for negotiations and discussions with clients regarding cost proposals/change orders/contracts to the Contract Manager, the respective Sales personnel, and project teams.
- Liaise with their respective Contract Manager on any issues that need to be escalated within ICON or the client.
- Provide project/financial analysis on the project budget to justify supporting information from the project team on prior to client submission.
- Develop and maintain client/project files and tracking tools.
- Update ICON's reporting system in a timely and consistent manner with concise, accurate information on status of the contract or change order.

Quality
- Review client/project documents and budgets to ensure accuracy with mínimal to no errors prior to submission to their respective Contract Manager for final QC review.

Build Relationships:

- With ICON project teams, sales, proposals, finance and ICON management.
- Build strong client relationships and understand their respective contractual and work practices and guide the ICON project managers, project teams, finance, vendors etc. to follow such practices.

Communication:

- Ensure clear and direct communication when corresponding (verbally or written) with the project team and client on the status of the contract and/or change order.
- Organize, lead, chair, and manage internal meetings and/or client related meetings required related to contracts and change orders.

Process Improvement:

- As a member of staff, the employee is expected to embrace and contribute to our culture of process improvement with a focus on streamlining our processes adding value to our business and meeting client needs.
- Provide recommendations related to process improvements and training to the client contract services team.

Travel:

- Due to the nature of this position it may be required for the employee to travel. Therefore, dependent on the employee’s location, the employee may be required to possess a valid Drivers license.
- Travel (approximately 5% or less) domestic and/or international.

You will need:

- 1+ years of experience