Sr Contracts Specialist

Covista•Lisle, IL

1d•$49,199 - $86,254•Hybrid

About The Position

As the senior contract specialist for our clinical operations team, you will be responsible for the full clinical contract lifecycle including partnering closely with the contract team manager, clinical operations teams, hospitals and site partners, legal, insurance, and compliance groups to lead the execution of a variety of clinical contracts while applying legal and clinical expertise. This is a collaborative role that requires relationship building, outreach and care for the student during the contracting process.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Required
Master's Degree or equivalent experience in business administration, contract management, or a related field. Preferred
3+ years years of professional work experience preferably in online higher education industry Required
3+ years years experience negotiating contracts with academic partners for clinical sites. Required
3+ years Salesforce b2b & DocuSign experience Required
Successful experience in relationship management across a range of partners.
Models leadership, professionalism and accountability.
Proven organizational, analytic, project management and presentation skills with an ability to communicate at all organizational levels.
Strong communication, facilitation, organizational, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Must be thorough and detail-oriented. Must have excellent time-management and organizational skills.
Creative, innovative, able to work independently on several projects simultaneously with little or no supervision.
Ability to handle sensitive and private company matters confidentially and with integrity.
Proven mastery of MS Excel, Outlook, SharePoint and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Must have demonstrated evidence of consistently exhibiting healthy organizational behaviors.
Must gain & maintain confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Must be able to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.

Responsibilities

Serve as the subject matter expert and liaison for contracting needs, escalations and regulatory questions.
Manage case assignment in b2b, ensuring that all contracts are being worked on effectively.
Serve as liaison to the academic programs as the Data Use contract specialist.
Monitor and facilitate the progress of contracts through the contract process and all phases through contract completion.
Interface with Legal to support one off contracts that serve the needs of various academic partners.
Manage Contracts SharePoint site. Create and update data views, and reports, to support scheduled and ad-hoc requests. Generate financial reports as needed.
Analyze historical contract data to provide critical information to management, Legal and Finance. This includes providing reports to highlight recommendations to improve or change process with little to no input from management.
Orient new staff on contracting policies and procedures.
Represent team at pertinent department meetings.
Support Contract Manager role through things such as scheduling, onboarding and systems access requests, and special projects.
Act as a change agent to improve current procedures and systems.
Cross-functional support of departmental teams, on such occasion as need arises due to capacity constraints.
Remain current on corporate contract & finance policies, procedures, and systems.
Designs workflows and procedure, manages workflow and adjusts when necessary.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards