Sr Site Contracts Lead with Clinical Trials Experience in Argentina or Mexico

**Description****Senior Site Contracts Lead**Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:**WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE****Why Syneos Health**- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.- We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.**Job responsibilities**- Establishes, maintains and updates training material for site contracts lead team and site contract negotiators.- Oversees negotiations of clinical study agreements (CTA´s) on a study level and drives CTA document finalization and execution, including contractual language & terms, financial attachments, and investigator grant budgets in collaboration with a global team of site contract & budget negotiators.- Provides oversight of contact & budget negotiations status and manages escalation of out-of-parameter queries on budgetary and contractual requests to sponsor decision-makers in all regions of study conduct. Provides consultation during escalation of out-of-parameter queries as needed.- Advises study team and Sponsor stakeholders on industry trends, norms, and emergent developments surrounding site contract and budgetary negotiations. Provides consultation on potential risks and mitigation tactics for negotiation issues pertaining to overall study start-up needs.- Plans contract execution strategy for assigned studies-including forecast of site-specific contractual execution timelines with as much accuracy as possible-and coordinates with internal study team stakeholders to ensure that CTA strategy is aligned with overall study start-up plans and expectations overall. Manages expectations of internal and sponsor study team regarding global CTA negotiations for assigned studies.- Coordinates communications between study team stakeholders and global team of site-facing site contract & budget negotiators including roll-up of all status updates to regular team forum. Participates in regular study calls to facilitate communication as needed.- Works closely with internal stakeholders and with Sponsor to prepare site contractual templates, including payment terms, and study-level negotiation parameters and processes within Company standards in order to drive successful negotiation of contracts and budgets.- Establishes strong working relationships and collaboration with Sponsor to ensure site contractual templates fit into the global strategy set for the program.- Identifies possible site contractual and investigator budgetary document or process operational risk and proactively works to provide solutions. Establishes strong working relationships with customer and internal project teams. Escalates deviations to senior management and is equipped to resolve issues with Quality Assurance.- Creates and maintains document status reports, and updates department tools/systems and team members on a regular basis; ensures appropriate documentation is maintained.- Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.- Manages site and study level discussions with internal and sponsor team stakeholders around fair market value of investigator budgets and payment terms within corporate and industry standards during negotiation with sites.- Identifies best practices, investigates root causes of fundamental issues and problems for projects and recommends solutions.- Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), processes, tools and templates and ensures quality of tea