Senior Site Contract Associate

About the Role IQVIA Biotech is seeking a Senior Site Contracts Associate to support start-up contracting activities for selected sponsors and studies, including pre-award work, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment across Serbia and the Czech Republic. This role focuses on delivering efficient contracting, alignment with sponsor requirements, and enabling study initiation and maintenance. What You'll Do

• Develop simple investigator grant estimates and proposal text to support proposal development.
• Utilize and maintain contract and budget templates, contracting systems, tools, processes, and training materials for selected sponsors and studies according to the Scope of Work and Project Plan.
• Ensure collaboration and communication with sponsors, stakeholders and RSU regions/countries to deliver the project scope in compliance with sponsor requirements and RSU Management Plan.
• Provide specialist operational and financial contracting support to facilitate business development and initiation/maintenance of clinical trials, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Assist in creation/review of core scientific, technical and administrative documentation to support business development and study initiation/maintenance.
• Contribute to collection, interpretation, analysis and dissemination of contracting intelligence to support studies and the wider company.
• Ensure contracting efficiency and adherence to project timelines and financial goals; report contracting performance metrics and out-of-scope activities as required.
• Comply with contract management and quality standards. Provide administrative/operational support to investigator site contract analysts, managers, and directors as required.
• Ensure accurate completion and maintenance of internal systems (CTMS), databases, tracking tools, timelines and project plans. What We're Looking For
• Bachelor's Degree in life sciences or health care.
• 5-7 years relevant experience, including demonstrable experience acting as a contract negotiator.
• Relevant sponsor or clinical research organization (CRO) clinical site contracting experience.
• Good negotiating and communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and a strong team player.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Understanding of regulated clinical trial environments.