QPS Holdings, LLC

Director of Budgets – Proposals

QPS Holdings, LLC

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Netherlands

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Salary

💰 €8,000 - €11,500 per month

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead and develop the Patient-Side Budgets & Proposals team, ensuring effective resourcing, prioritisation, and on-time delivery.
  • Provide strategic oversight of the Healthy Volunteer proposals team via the Global Proposal Manager reporting into this role.
  • Establish clear expectations, governance, and quality standards across teams.
  • Act as the senior escalation point for complex proposals, timelines, or resourcing challenges.
  • Demonstrate strong personal ownership of outcomes, flexing availability and working patterns as required to meet business needs, global timelines, and client expectations.
  • Oversee the end-to-end development of patient-side proposals and budgets for full-service, multi-site clinical trials.
  • Personally lead selected complex or strategic proposals and budgets for patient-side trials, as required.
  • Ensure proposals are accurate, competitive, compliant, and aligned with protocol and operational assumptions.
  • Conduct final quality and commercial reviews prior to submission.
  • Partner closely with Business Development on RFP intake, bid strategy, pricing, and risk assessment.
  • Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Finance, Contracts, and subject matter experts to align scope and assumptions.
  • Participate in, and as needed lead, bid defences and sponsor discussions related to budgets and commercial strategy.
  • Drive consistency, efficiency, and scalability across proposal and budgeting processes.
  • Apply advanced Excel modelling for pricing, margin analysis, and scenario planning.
  • Ensure accurate tracking of proposals and opportunities in Salesforce or related systems.
  • Support smooth handover of awarded studies to operational teams.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in patient-side budgeting and proposals within a CRO or similar clinical research environment.
  • Proven leadership of teams delivering high volumes of full-service clinical trial proposals, including multi-site studies.
  • Strong commercial judgement and comfort operating at both strategic and delivery levels.
  • Advanced Excel skills and strong organisational capabilities.
  • Clear communicator and collaborative leader with a focus on quality and continuous improvement.
  • Ownership mindset with the flexibility to adjust working hours and availability to support global time zones, proposal deadlines, and periods of high workload.
  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in clinical research proposals and budgeting, with significant patient-side exposure.
  • Prior senior management or Director-level experience preferred.
  • Salesforce or similar CRM experience advantageous.
Benefits
  • Vaccination Program
  • Healthy workplace environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
patient-side budgetingclinical trial proposalsadvanced Excelmargin analysisscenario planning
Soft Skills
leadershipcommercial judgementclear communicationcollaborationorganizational capabilitiesownership mindsetflexibility