Clinical Trial Budget Manager

Aptask Global Workforce (AGW) is seeking a Clinical Trial Budget Manager for a contract position with a Pharmaceutical Company located in Ridgefield, CT. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. This is a fully Remote role.

The Clinical Trial Budget Manager is responsible for ensuring that clinical trial and site budgets are high quality and allocations are within fair market values. This role involves developing and maintaining the Sites Fee Framework, as well as coordinating, processing, monitoring, and administering payments to sites according to budget and contract terms.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures clinical trial site budget is of high quality and allocations are within fair market values (FMV); analyze protocol flowcharts to create costing, payment strategies, and budget estimates and negotiation prameters within FMV
• Drives development and maintenance of Site Fee Framework
• Sets up year-end accruals and developing plausibility checks
• Coordinates, processes, monitors and administers payments (invoice and visits) in accordance with agreed terms of Contracts and Budget Exhibits
• Sets up, closes, re-opens, and submits payments within all grants
• Effectively uses budget-specific and trial metrics and tools to report on, provide visibility into, and analyze performance and deliverables
• Maintains a focused continuous improvement culture by identifying and executing strategies and priorities to enable the Budget group to deliver value and enhance overall operational effectiveness
• Actively remains current with industry standards, trends, and competitive intelligence on budget best practices
• Interfaces across Medical, all TAs, Finance, Legal, and external parties e.g., investigators, site personnel, third party vendors
• Liaises within Clinical Trial Manager and TA Lead for review and approval of budget and payment decisions
• Supports Finance in reviewing any issues with payment execution based on agreed contract and ensuring matching of accrual statuses
• Liaises with Clinical Finance/Accounting Department, Legal Department (if needed) and the local Head of Clin Ops and/or Clinical Operations Management for approval of payment related decisions (e.g., standard payment frequency) and maintain proper documentation
• Partners with Contract Managers to identify issues and propose mitigations
• Supports contract manager in developing negotiation strategy for site budget
• Represents Budget group processes on local/global working groups
• Ensures commitment to customer-centric behaviors
• Maintains high degree of responsiveness to both internal and external requests

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with minimum of five (5) years of relevant business experience in regulated pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry
• Strong clinical background and budgeting understanding of cost drivers and benchmarks for clinical site budget
• Ability to think strategically and initiate strong and persuasive contractual arguments to support business policies and objectives
• Track record in setting priorities, organization and problem-solving skills which support and enable sound decision making
• Excellent customer service skills and high attention to detail
• Demonstrated analytical skills and critical thinking to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations requiring new solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to be clear and concise in a variety of communication settings
• Experience in working with systems, applications related to clinical and/or project management planning and reporting systems
• Excellent knowledge of computer applications (Excel, Word, Access) is essential
• Experience with Veeva and grant plan required

Pay range: up to $57.14 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Aptask Global Workforce (AGW) employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, apply today!

Aptask Global Workforce (AGW)

ApTask Global Workforce (AGW) is a certified Minority and Veteran workforce solutions company. AGW delivers operational, clinical, lab and professional talent with a strong focus on healthcare and life sciences. The company supports clients with reliable staffing, program expertise and a commitment to quality, speed and consistent delivery.

Benefits of working with ApTask Global Workforce include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)

Our team stays close to the process and is here to guide you every step of the way. To learn more, please visit our website https://www.agwtalent.com/. 

ApTask Global Workforce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.