Senior Director, Site Contracts

Remote work situations can be considered. For a remote worker, candidates must be able to work on-site at one of our sites 1 week per month for 3 days that week. Candidates can work in any of our sites: Uxbridge, UK, Dublin, IRE, Armonk, NY or Basking Ridge, NJ.

The Senior Director, Site Contracts is responsible for leadership of a team of Site Contracts Leads and the day-to-day management of vendors for outsourced site budget and contract negotiations. You will interact with senior level management, external vendors, collaboration partners, and clinical study personnel.

In this role, a typical day might include:

• Think strategically about Regeneron’s ideal approaches to conducting site contracting and drive solutions, while ensuring compliance

• Help develop and implement a new site contracting operational support model, which includes a combination of in-house v. outsourced contracting

• Partner with colleagues in the Law Department and other stakeholder groups, as needed, to continuously enhance the operational model and prioritize assignments across assigned therapeutic areas

• Maintain key site contracting metrics for vendors and direct reports, ensure that internal systems are updated in a timely, accurate, and complete manner, and maintain an overview of contract statuses and issues, in order to proactively communicate progress, risks, issues or changes that may impact quality, timelines and/or budget

• Act as point of contact for clinical study escalations

• Provide innovative and flexible operational solutions and options to the cross functional and study teams and proactively creates and implements risk mitigation strategies

• Identify and recommend changes to practices and policies, including initiating and participating in strategic projects, initiatives, and continuous improvement projects

This role might be for you if can:

• Act as the single point of accountability for ensuring that team is meeting performance and efficiency standards and performing in a manger that is consistent with Regeneron’s values

• Responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality, compliant, effective, and timely work product; line management responsibilities include work assignments, performance management, staff recruitment, professional development, coaching, mentoring, ongoing training and compliance, and study support/oversight.

• Ensure that vendors and staff are conducting issue resolution of moderate to high complexity

• Establish team goals that will increase knowledge and skill level (delegate tasks accordingly, commensurate with skill level)

• Accountable for ensuring consistency of process and approaches across studies

• Helps drive decision making and integrates all operational considerations for studies to ensure that contract finalization goals are attainable prior to implementation

• Directly accountable for the day-to-day management of vendor counterparts, in partnership with CTM, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement, Study Optimization, and Vendor Management colleagues

• Handle site contracting related escalations effectively and efficiently

• Train the vendors on our templates, tools, and site contracting processes

• Assist with resource forecasting and resource allocation

• May require up to 25% of travel

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have the following:

• Ability to mitigate and drive solutions regarding investigator site budget and contract negotiation challenges

• Ability to identify and implement best practices and contribute to continuous improvement

• Strong management and coaching experience

• Comfortable leading cross functional teams

• Ability to effectively spearhead ongoing process improvements (including cross-stakeholder, strategic initiatives)

• Ability to provide strategic direction and guidance for assigned book of work

• Analytical skills with a data driven approach to planning, executing, and problem solving

• Ability to influence and negotiate

• Budget management experience

• Strong project management, cross-functional team leadership and organizational skills

• Proven vendor management experience

• Line management experience with demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills

• Extensive experience in global clinical trial operations

• Minimum of 12 + years of direct experience with global, Phase I-IV clinical site agreement and budget negotiations at a biopharmaceutical company or CRO required, including significant U.S. site negotiation experience

• Minimum of 7 years of direct line management experience

• Bachelors Degree required J.D. or MBA preferred