QPS Holdings, LLC

Director of Budgets – Proposals, Clinical Trials

QPS Holdings, LLC

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Netherlands

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Salary

💰 €4,300 - €5,100 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
  • Senior leadership role with real influence on commercial execution
  • A leadership culture that values accountability, flexibility, and trust
  • Autonomy to manage your time in line with business and client needs
  • Opportunity to lead and shape patient and healthy volunteer proposal teams
  • Exposure to complex, global, multi-site clinical trials
  • Collaborative, science-driven culture with flexible, remote working within Europe
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
patient-side budgetingclinical trial proposalsExcel modellingpricing analysismargin analysisscenario planningproposal developmentquality reviewscompliance standardsrisk assessment
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic oversightclear communicationcollaborationorganizational capabilitiesownership mindsetflexibilityfocus on qualitycontinuous improvementproblem-solving