Sr. Clinical Contracts Manager
Becton Dickinson
Summary
The Clinical Contracts Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing global clinical research contracting activities. This role serves as the primary point of contact for negotiating, executing, and managing a wide range of clinical research agreements, ensuring compliance with company standards, legal requirements, privacy regulations, insurance obligations, financial controls, and risk management practices.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership & Team Management: Initially structured as an individual contributor role, this position is posted at the Senior Manager level to support future organizational growth. As the team expands, the role may assume responsibility for leading and developing direct reports, supporting career growth, evaluating resource requirements, and ensuring effective workload planning and allocation.
- Global Contract Management: Lead the preparation, negotiation, execution, and management of clinical research agreements including CTAs, CSAs, CDAs, DPAs, image transfer agreements, and other study-related contracts.
- Negotiation & Risk Management: Negotiate contract terms, budgets, payment schedules, and key legal provisions while identifying, evaluating, and escalating contractual, financial, legal, privacy, and operational risks.
- Privacy & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with global privacy regulations and data transfer requirements, including GDPR, UK GDPR, HIPAA, China PIPL, SCCs, and other regional requirements governing patient data and biological specimens.
- Insurance Oversight: Evaluate clinical trial insurance requirements and coordinate the provision of insurance documentation to sites, investigators, ethics committees, and regulatory authorities.
- Financial Management & Payment Processing: Incorporate site budgets into agreements, establish payment schedules, review and process invoices, coordinate payments to clinical sites and vendors, reconcile financial records, and ensure payments comply with contractual terms, transparency reporting requirements, fair market value standards, and applicable anti-bribery regulations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, Risk Management, Insurance, Finance, Clinical Project Management, and business stakeholders to facilitate timely contract execution, invoice processing, and study startup activities.
- Contract Administration: Maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, tracking systems, legal databases, and Trial Master Files (TMFs), while providing status updates and key metrics to leadership.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives that improve contracting efficiency, payment processing, reduce risk, standardize practices, and enhance global contracting processes.
- Sunshine Reporting & Financial Compliance: Ensure accurate tracking, reconciliation, and reporting of invoices, payments, honoraria, grants, travel, meals, and other transfers of value in accordance with transparency reporting requirements and company policies.
Requirements
- Experience leading and overseeing global clinical research contracting activities
- Experience negotiating, executing, and managing clinical research agreements including CTAs, CSAs, CDAs, DPAs, and image transfer agreements
- Experience negotiating contract terms, budgets, payment schedules, and key legal provisions
- Knowledge of global privacy regulations including GDPR, UK GDPR, HIPAA, China PIPL, and SCCs
- Experience evaluating clinical trial insurance requirements
- Experience with financial management, budgeting, payment processing, and reconciliation
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Legal, Privacy, Risk Management, Insurance, Finance, and Clinical Project Management
- Experience maintaining contract templates, negotiation playbooks, tracking systems, and Trial Master Files (TMFs)
- Experience with transparency reporting and Sunshine reporting requirements
- Minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Wellness Resources
- Mental Health Support
- 401(k)
- Deferred Compensation
- Financial Counseling
- DailyPay
- Paid Time Off
- Company Holidays
- Educational Assistance
- Parental Leave
- Adoption Assistance
- Backup Care
- Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Services
- Associate Discount Programs
Company overview
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a leading American multinational medical technology company founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. As one of the largest global medical technology companies, BD specializes in manufacturing and selling medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents while also providing consulting and analytics services. The company operates through three main segments: BD Medical (focusing on medication delivery and management), BD Life Sciences (specializing in diagnostics and biosciences), and BD Interventional (concentrating on surgical and critical care interventions). With over 72,000 employees worldwide, BD has established a significant presence in virtually every country and serves healthcare providers, hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical companies, and research institutions. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BDX) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. BD has a long history of innovation, including developing the first insulin injection device in 1924, the first sterile disposable medical device in 1952, and pioneering safety-engineered syringes. The company continues to advance healthcare through its commitment to improving medical discovery, diagnostics, and care delivery while addressing global health challenges.