Head of Site Contracting
Novartis
Summary
About the Role
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, implementation and ongoing management of contracts and grants workflow, process, tools and technology
- Ongoing proactive assessment of Novartis process, tools and technology as it pertains to contract execution, with a focus on cycle time optimisation and efficiency
- Ensure contracting process is compliant with appropriate quality standards and regulations and leads any associated actions required
- Establish strong working relationships across the matrix of stakeholders that impact contract execution to harness their expertise in line with goals
- Ensure appropriate data and metrics are in place to provide timely insights for both operational study level delivery and process control.
- Maintain a strong understanding of external best practice and clinical trial landscape factors that could impact contract execution
- Line manage the grant plan team
- Lead the design and implementation of Novartis’ Grant Plan strategy and Fair Market Value (FMV) assessments in support of clinical trials.
- Oversee quality and timely translation of clinical protocol visit assessment schedule into intelligent Grant Plan and FMV cost estimations, ensuring clinical operational and scientific requirements are reflected accuracy.
- Lead and empowers Study Grants Expert/Managers to implement innovative and efficient processes which are in line with Novartis strategy.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in life science, business or operations
- 10+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience, with previous significant experience in site contracts
- Strong leadership and people management skills in a global setting with proven ability to develop high- performing teams and diverse profiles.
- Proven expert level knowledge of and experience with operational management, and exceptional technical, analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
- Credible and confident at building relationships at the leadership level while demonstrating organizational agility.
- Proven ability to build strong, effective relationships with internal partners.
- Demonstrated effective influencing and negotiation skills at all levels.
- Experience working with electronic databases, clinical and/or project management planning and reporting and analytics systems.
Desired Qualifications:
- Advanced degree preferred
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting, and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.