Everest Clinical Research

General Counsel

• Negotiate, draft, and redline customer agreements, vendor agreements license agreements, partnership agreements, confidentiality agreements, work orders, data protection agreements, and other documents;
• Independently support critical commercial matters for the company, including complex and strategic transactions (partnerships, technology integrations, among others).
• Collaborate with internal and external experts to ensure that commercial agreements comply with policies, laws, rules, and regulations.
• Advise internal business teams on contractual obligations, risk management, and compliance related to commercial transactions.
• Lead negotiations in a respectful and professional manner to ensure favorable terms while maintaining strong business relationships.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, compliance, risk management, procurement, finance, and operations to support business objectives.
• Provide legal support for contract lifecycle management, including amendments, renewals, and dispute resolution.
• Stay current on relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices impacting commercial transactions.
• Identify potential legal risks and/or impacts to existing businesses, new ventures, and products, as appropriate.
• Assist with updating and drafting new corporate policies and SOPs.

Corporate Counsel

Manager

• Manage the end-to-end site payment process for assigned clinical trials.
• Ensure site payments align with approved study budgets and site agreements.
• Monitor and track payment status, ensuring payments are issued according to contractual timelines.
• Investigate and resolve payment discrepancies, delays, or site inquiries.
• Act as a point of contact for payment-related inquiries from internal teams and sponsor representatives.
• Partner with the Site Contracts & Budgets team to ensure financial terms in site agreements are accurately reflected in payment systems.
• Configure payment schedules and milestones in investigator payment systems (e.g. Medidata payments).
• Validate budget parameters prior to payment activation.
• Supervise and mentor Site Payment Specialists.
• Assign workload across studies and monitor team productivity.
• Provide training on payment processes, systems, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct performance reviews and support professional development.
• Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Data Management, and Project Management to verify visit completion, milestone triggers, and data transfers.
• Support timely and accurate monthly accrual reporting, payment processing, and cash reconciliation.
• Ensure payment processes adhere to contractual obligations, sponsor requirements, and financial and regulatory guidelines.
• Maintain accurate documentation of payment approvals and financial records.
• Support timely and accurate financial accrual reporting on monthly basis.

Site Payments Manager

• Manage the end-to-end site payment process for assigned clinical trials.
• Ensure site payments align with approved study budgets and site agreements.
• Monitor and track payment status, ensuring payments are issued according to contractual timelines.
• Investigate and resolve payment discrepancies, delays, or site inquiries.
• Act as a point of contact for payment-related inquiries from internal teams and sponsor representatives.
• Partner with the Site Contracts & Budgets team to ensure financial terms in site agreements are accurately reflected in payment systems.
• Configure payment schedules and milestones in investigator payment systems (e.g. Medidata payments).
• Validate budget parameters prior to payment activation.
• Supervise and mentor Site Payment Specialists.
• Assign workload across studies and monitor team productivity.
• Provide training on payment processes, systems, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct performance reviews and support professional development.
• Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Data Management, and Project Management to verify visit completion, milestone triggers, and data transfers.
• Support internal and external audits related to site payments.
• Maintain accurate documentation of payment approvals and financial records.

Manager, Site Contracts

Director

• Overseeing the operational execution of investigator site payments across assigned clinical trials
• Ensuring that payments to investigative sites are processed accurately, timely, and in accordance with study budgets, site contracts, and sponsor requirements
• Leading a team of site payment specialists managing the entire payment process
• Collaborating with Clinical Operations, Site Contracts & Budgets, Finance, and Sponsor stakeholders
• Managing the end-to-end site payment process for assigned clinical trials
• Ensuring site payments align with approved study budgets and site agreements
• Monitoring and tracking payment status, ensuring payments are issued according to contractual timelines
• Investigating and resolving payment discrepancies, delays, or site inquiries
• Acting as a point of contact for payment-related inquiries from internal teams and sponsor representatives
• Partnering with the Site Contracts & Budgets team to ensure financial terms in site agreements are accurately reflected in payment systems
• Validating budget parameters prior to payment activation

Director, Site Payments

• Manage the end-to-end site payment process for assigned clinical trials.
• Ensure site payments align with approved study budgets and site agreements.
• Monitor and track payment status, ensuring payments are issued according to contractual timelines.
• Investigate and resolve payment discrepancies, delays, or site inquiries.
• Act as a point of contact for payment-related inquiries from internal teams and sponsor representatives.
• Partner with the Site Contracts & Budgets team to ensure financial terms in site agreements are accurately reflected in payment systems.
• Configure payment schedules and milestones in investigator payment systems (e.g. Medidata payments).
• Validate budget parameters prior to payment activation.
• Supervise and mentor Site Payment Specialists.
• Assign workload across studies and monitor team productivity.
• Provide training on payment processes, systems, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct performance reviews and support professional development.
• Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Data Management, and Project Management to verify visit completion, milestone triggers, and data transfers.
• Support internal and external audits related to site payments.
• Maintain accurate documentation of payment approvals and financial records.
• Support timely and accurate financial accrual reporting on monthly basis.

• owns the end-to-end intake and delivery of project/opportunity proposals
• drives cross functional collaboration, input and review
• ensures organizational goals and strategies are reflected
• acts as a central bid leader to plan, notify, coordinate and follow up with internal Everest solutions teams
• supports the coordination and execution of bid defense meetings
• works with bid defense leaders to plan bid preparation and ensure key questions are covered
• participates in weekly proposal pipeline work planning and prioritization meetings

Proposals Manager

Project Manager

• Accountable for effective and efficient project and portfolio delivery from project start up through closure.
• Ensure all functional, technical, and financial aspects of the project are managed effectively and against client and Everest expectations.
• Establish project/portfolio management and tracking foundation for an assigned client.
• Define project scope and cost estimate budgets.
• Plan, direct, and control project activities, managing resources, budgets, and project team performance.
• Report project progress status to Everest internal management and clients, including regular project billing, invoicing, and financial tracking/reporting activities.
• Manage projects with activities focused on clinical operations, data management, statistics, medical writing, and clinical trial technologies.
• Coordinate activities across functional project teams and prepare status and progress reports.

Project Manager II

Research Analyst

• Interact with personnel from study Sponsors, investigational sites, vendors, and Everest functional groups to enable quality and on-time execution of clinical trials in compliance with ICH-GCP and relevant local regulations.
• Identify potential sites for participation in clinical trials.
• Perform protocol/site feasibility and Pre-Study Visits to recommend qualified sites.
• Participate in Investigator Meetings, Clinical Research Associate (CRA) and Study Coordinator training sessions, and assist sites with study-related questions as needed.
• Provide feedback to study manuals, Case Report Form completion guidelines, monitoring plans, informed consents, recruitment materials, and monitoring tools, as needed.
• Perform Site Initiation Visits, Interim Monitoring Visits, and Close-Out Visits in compliance with the approved protocol and monitoring plan.
• Submit quality and on-time Monitoring Visit Reports and follow-up letters to the Clinical Operations Lead or designee for review and approval via Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS).
• Complete monitoring visit reports and follow-up letters, including summaries of the significant findings, deviations, deficiencies, and recommended actions to ensure site compliance.
• Assist with oversight visits and monitoring visit report review/approval of CRA I/II, evaluating their performance and providing feedback to their supervisor, if requested.
• Review ISFs to ensure essential documents are current and submitted to the TMF throughout the trial for reconciliation purposes.
• Ensure sites have submitted relevant documents to their Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee as needed.
• The CRA is responsible for ensuring that the TMF is maintained in an inspection-ready state.
• Establish regular lines of communication and administer ongoing protocol/study-related training to assigned sites.
• Assist with site management tasks and ensure continuous data flow (i.e., on-time site data entry, query resolution, and source document verification).
• Assess the clinical research site’s patient recruitment/retention success and offer suggestions for improvement.
• Ensure proper handling, accountability, and reconciliation of all investigational products, medical devices, and clinical trial supplies.
• Prepare sites for inspections/audits conducted either by regulatory authorities, Sponsors, or Contract Research Organizations.
• Submit accurate and on-time expense reports.
• Assist with preparation of materials for Requests for Proposals and bid defenses.
• Assist the Clinical Operations team with additional related tasks as needed.
• Plan and carry out professional development.
• Complete timesheets as requested and on-time.

Senior Clinical Research Associate – Pain, Oncology, CNS Therapeutic Areas

Clinical Operations

• Provide leadership, local/global strategic planning and operational delivery of assigned clinical studies/program through all phases of study management (study start-up, conduct/maintenance, closure)
• Ensure the effective identification, initiation and motivation (patient recruitment/retention) of clinical study sites
• Focus on internal and external customers service (Sponsors, study sites, vendors) related to site management and clinical monitoring activities to ensure timely and high quality deliverables
• Develop a monitoring plan as well as monitoring tools
• Collaborate with other functional departments to identify issues and risks to clinical activities; assists in the development of mitigation plans to minimize risk

Clinical Operations Lead – Pain Therapeutic Area

• Own the end-to-end intake and delivery of project/opportunity proposals
• Interact with external customers and internal stakeholders
• Act as a central bid leader
• Review input gathered from contributors to ensure consistency
• Support the generation of new project contracts