Investigator Contracts Lead, Manager

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Investigator Contracts Lead, Manager

Location: Belgium

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Investigator Contracts Lead to manage site-facing contract and budget negotiations. This individual contributor role involves handling initial agreements, amendments, and overseeing other contracting professionals on assigned studies. You will also manage the Per-Subject Cost (PSC) process, handle escalations, and collaborate with other teams to plan site contracting timelines.
Key Responsibilities:

• Balance budget and contractual decisions with clinical trial timelines.
• Develop, negotiate, track, and execute global clinical study agreements.
• Oversee the global site budget process and directly negotiate terms with clinical trial sites.
• Build and maintain relationships with key investigational sites and Site Management Organizations.
• Lead study-level site contracting activities and act as the primary contact for site contracting issues.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, pCRO, and other divisions to manage escalations and improve site contracting processes.
• Ensure alignment with Investigative Site contracting and compensation requirements.

Qualifications / Skills:
Basic Qualifications:
• Significant years of experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing and a bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency in clinical study budgets and contracting negotiation principles.
• Strong business, compliance, finance, legal, and drug development experience.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to plan, identify, and mitigate risks to site contracting timelines.
• Proven ability to lead by influence in a matrix-based organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
• strong experience in clinical development operations or clinical trial outsourcing and a US Juris Doctorate or equivalent legal degree.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating Clinical Trial Agreements globally.
Language Requirements:
• Fluency in spoken and written English is mandatory.
• Proficiency in local languages such as Dutch or French is preferred.
Work Location Assignment:
• Remote – Field Based

What do we offer?

Innovative company Pfizer has a pipeline full of innovative medicines for a variety of conditions. As a Pfizer colleague, you’ll have the opportunity to maximize the impact of medicines for patients in a variety of ways. In short, you make a real difference.

Development opportunities We are always looking for top talent. We believe you will never stop learning and there will always be a new opportunity for your development. That is why we have broad opportunities in the Belux organization. There are regular opportunities for training or to gain experience in a different field or even advancement to an international position.

A culture where you can be yourself We are a large, international organization with people from all over the world. At Pfizer everyone should be able to be themselves, that’s what we strive for and live by.

Work/life balance At Pfizer, we know that if you really want to make an impact on people’s lives, it’s important that your people are at their best. That’s why we offer our colleagues good working conditions, such as an appropriate salary and opportunities to work from home. Working a lot of overtime is not the norm for us. We also believe that work and having fun should go hand in hand. That’s why, for example, you can participate in all kinds of activities outside of work.

Are you interested?

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Pfizer discovers, develops, manufactures and distributes medicines and vaccines. Pfizer wants to contribute to better health and wellness for everyone, at every stage of life. Pfizer works with the government and other health partners to provide quality and accessible healthcare. The patient is central to this story. 

Pfizer has four offices in Belgium with which it supports its Belgian and international activities: 1) Anderlecht, where the Pfizer Clinical Research Unit is located. This is a fully equipped phase 1 research center. With that of New Haven (US), it is one of two Phase 1 Pfizer research centers in the world, 2) Elsene, the Belgian headquarters, 3) Puurs, Pfizer’s production and packaging site, and 4) Zaventem, the international Pfizer’s Logistics Center. 

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