• Lead contract management across the acquisition lifecycle, including drafting, interpreting, negotiating, and administering Prime Contracts, Subcontracts, Non‑Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)/Proprietary Information Agreements (PIAs), and related agreements. • Provide contractual guidance, risk mitigation, and interpretation of rights, obligations, regulations, and policies to internal stakeholders while ensuring compliance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and corporate procedures. • Support proposal development by reviewing Requests for Proposal (RFPs), conducting front‑end assessments, managing cost volumes, coordinating with pricing/estimating, and preparing submission documents under tight deadlines. • Collaborate with Program Management, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Legal, and other cross‑functional partners to ensure aligned contract execution and business objectives. • Manage customer communications, contract changes, issue resolution, and flowdown of requirements, while professionally representing the company in negotiations and external interactions. • Analyze and negotiate terms and conditions, identify and manage contractual and business risks, and ensure compliant execution of contract scope across multiple contract types including Cost‑Plus‑Fixed‑Fee (CPFF), Cost‑Plus‑Incentive‑Fee (CPIF), Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF), Firm‑Fixed‑Price (FFP), and Level of Effort (CPFF-LOE & FFP‑LOE).

• 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.

• 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.

• Receives and analyzes Requests for Proposals (RFPs) documentation including study protocol or synopsis and ensures all appropriate Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are assigned and notified of the RFP. • Facilitates the development of basic proposal preparation including the coordination of all key strategic and operational areas, preparation and review of proposal and budgets, while ensuring adherence to the Decisions Right policy. • Prepares and modifies strategic proposal and budgets as appropriate to respond to RFPs and revisions, with assistance, based on SME feedback and proposal management staff. • Manages the RFP process from receipt to delivery, including identifying potential RFP barriers and/or their risks for completion while identifying and implementing effective and efficient mitigation strategies. • Obtains third party quotes as needed. • Ensures proposal and budgets align with RFP, client specifications and communications, and internal assumptions. • Creates, and finalizes budgets and contracts in accordance with departmental SOPs/guidance/work instructions. • Attend all relevant meetings and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Proactively leads and facilitates client meetings as required to negotiate costs and terms by targeted client signature date.