Senior Site Contracts Specialist – Sponsor Dedicated

Syneos Health

Senior contract specialist overseeing contracts, budgets, and agreements for clinical trials in Belgium. Collaborating across teams to support industry-sponsored studies at Syneos Health.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇪 BelgiumSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in contract management and negotiation within the clinical trial landscape, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards while effectively managing multiple projects. Proficient in fostering strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate successful clinical trial operations.

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Contract ManagementClinical Trial Process KnowledgeProject ManagementNegotiation SkillsVendor Management

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Hard Skills

Contracts ManagementClinical Development ProcessClinical Trial Start-Up ProcessesBudget PreparationQuality ControlMetadata CaptureSite-Specific ContractsClinical Protocols UnderstandingSOP DevelopmentMicrosoft Office Suite

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsOrganizational SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsCustomer FocusMentoring Ability

Tools & Technologies

SSU Tracking SystemContract TemplatesBudget Templates

Industry Keywords

Clinical TrialsICH GCPPharmaceutical IndustryContract Research OrganizationInformed Consent

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Google Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

May lead multi-country projects including negotiating and preparing contracts, budgets, and related documents for participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials.
Produces site-specific contracts from country clinical trial agreement (CTA) template.
Reviews and owns site-specific contracts from country template.
Submits proposed CTA and investigator budget for site review.
Negotiates budget and contract with site and via Site Contracts Service Centre and SSUL with Sponsor until resolution of issues.
Performs quality control and arranges execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories and capture of metadata.
Reviews contracts for completeness and accuracy, and ensures that corrections are appropriately made and documented.
Administers all contract management processes, including coordination with relevant protocol, informed consent, institution, investigator, vendor, consultant, and customer agreement documents at a project level.
Generates amended contract and/or budget documents as necessary, preparing contract management documentation for projects, and streamlining the contract/proposal or internal processes; initiates and introduces creative ideas and solutions.
Works closely with Site Contract Service Center and Legal to harmonize site contract to reflect sponsor's master service agreement terms.
Works closely with SSU lead, Clinical Operations and Finance to validate the load of departmental budgets and corresponding backlog.
Identifies possible contract or process operational risk and proactively works within the team to provide solutions.
Establishes strong working relationships with SSU lead, customer and internal project teams.
Escalates deviations to department leadership and/or Site Contract Service Center and/or Legal Department.
Provides support to business development and represents site contracts/Site Start-Up (SSU) at internal or customer meetings.
Works within the forecasted country/site contracting timelines, ensures they are complied with and tracks milestone progress in agreed upon SSU tracking system in real time.
Collaborates with internal and external legal, finance, and clinical operations departments, including communicating and explaining legal and budgetary issues.
Maintains and actively supports review and development of contract templates, budget templates and site specific files and databases.
Serves as key communication liaison between site contracts staff and internal and external customers.
Provides functional guidance and keeps internal and external teams aware of all contract statuses or pending issues.
Prepares correspondence as necessary.
Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and ensures quality of team work products.
Maintains and updates training material for site contract team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Advanced degree preferred
Moderate contracts management experience that includes experience in a contract research organization or pharmaceutical industry
Strong knowledge of the clinical development process and legal and contracting parameters
Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite
Customer focused and ability to manage challenging priorities and to remain flexible and adaptable in stressful situations
Excellent understanding of clinical trial process across Phases II-IV and ICH GCP
Good understanding clinical protocols and associated study specifications
Excellent understanding of clinical trial start-up processes
Project management experience in a fast-paced environment
Good vendor management skills
Strong organizational skills with proven ability to handle multiple projects
Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
Quality-driven in all managed activities
Fluency in English, French and Dutch
Strong negotiating skills
Strong problem-solving skills
Ability to mentor and motivate more junior staff
Demonstrate an ability to provide quality feedback and guidance to peers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.