• Administers all contract management processes, including coordination with relevant protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level. • May lead (with supervision) multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials. • Provides support to SSUL to agree on country template contract and budget. • Produces site-specific contracts from country template. • Provide support in submissions for proposed contract and budget for site. • Provides support in negotiating budget and contract with site via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL with Sponsor until resolution of issues. • Performs quality control and arranges execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories and capture of metadata. • Reviews contracts for completeness and accuracy, and ensures that corrections are appropriately made and documented. • Provides supports to business development and represents site contracts/Site Start-Up (SSU) at internal or customer meetings. • Work with Contract Managers and team members with the active project management of ongoing contract issues; performs follow-up on all outstanding contract issues. • Support in generating amended contract and/or budget documents as necessary, preparing contract management documentation for projects, and streamlining the contract/proposal or internal processes; and initiates and introduces creative ideas and solutions. • Works within the forecasted country/site contracting timelines, ensures they are complied with and tracks milestone progress in agreed upon SSU tracking system in real time. • Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance, and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues. • Facilitates the execution of contracts by company signatories. • Maintains contract templates and site specific files and databases. • Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and ensures quality of team work products. • Maintains and updates training material for site contract team. • Acts as a communication liaison between site contracts staff and internal and external customers. • Provides functional guidance and keeps internal and external teams aware of all contract statuses or pending issues. • Prepares correspondence as necessary. • Monitors basic financial aspects of the project and the number of hours/tasks available per contract; escalates discrepancies in a timely fashion. • Reviews and complies with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) in a timely manner, keeps training records updated accordingly and ensures timesheet compliance.