ICON Strategic Solutions
Manager, Investigator Site Budgets & Contracts
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Manager, Investigator Site Budgets & Contracts
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, welcoming you to join our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
About the Role
As a Manager, Investigator Site Budgets & Contracts at ICON, you will need extensive experience with Grants Manager/GrantPlan, ensuring accurate budgeting across Phase 1–IV studies. The ideal candidate will provide critical input into scenario planning and assess its impact on study budgets.
Key Responsibilities
- Site budget generation and review: Oversee the development and management of investigator site budgets linked to investigator grants (IGs) using Grants Manager.
- Support Clinical Operations teams: Provide up-front and ongoing strategic financial planning, ensuring budgets align with program and study needs.
- Benchmarking & forecasting: Utilise internal, CRO-provided Investigator Grant (IG) reference data and Fair Market Value (FMV) tools to create budget estimates for forecasting.
- FMV-based IG budget development: Lead or support the creation of target FMV-based IG budgets and negotiation parameters (focusing on infectious disease, oncology, and/or therapeutics within an outsourced CRO model).
- Cross-program alignment: Act as the Primary Point of Contact (POC) for all CRO site budget activities, ensuring global investigator site budgets and negotiation parameters align with GCP and FMV principles.
- Contract documents: Directly manage and track negotiatons for Investigator Site CTAs/budgets, maintaining consistency across studies and therapeutic areas.
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Your Profile
- Experience: Minimum 5 years in global investigator site budget creation, negotiations, and oversight, with expertise in GrantManager/GrantPlan.
- Compliance expertise: Preferable experience in CTA template language negotiations (preferably with Legal support).
- Collaboration: Strong ability to work with key internal (CDO) and external stakeholders, including CROs and site personnel.
- Financial analysis & justification: Proficient in constructing financial assertions and assessments.
- Outsourced model familiarity: Experience in direct CRO oversight of CTA/budget negotiations.
- Technical skills: High Excel proficiency (advanced to power user level) and adaptability to stand-alone applications (e.g., Grants Manager/GrantPlan).
- Attention to detail: Ability to manage high-volume site financial data with meticulous accuracy.
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What ICON Offers You
ICON’s culture values diversity, inclusion, and high performance, offering a supportive environment for talent growth. Benefits include:
- Annual leave entitlements (country-specific)
- Health insurance options for optimal family coverage
- Competitive retirement planning, including savings incentives
- Global Employee Assistance Programme (LifeWorks) for 24/7 professional well-being support
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific benefits:
- Childcare vouchers
- Bike purchase schemes
- Discounted gym memberships
- Subsidised travel passes
- Health assessments
ICON is committed to an inclusive and accessible workplace, ensuring equal consideration for every applicant. Regardless of race, gender, disability, protected veteran status, or other classifications, you are encouraged to apply.
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