Worldwide Clinical Trials
Vendor Contracts Manager (Contract-to-Hire) - U.S. - Remote
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Senior Vendor Contract Administrator (Contract Manager)
Hillsborough, NC & Virtual
About the Role
WHO WE ARE We’re a global, midsize Clinical Research Organization (CRO) dedicated to pushing boundaries and accelerating the path to cures for the world’s most persistent diseases. At Worldwide Clinical Trials, we’re a team of 3,500+ experts, innovators, and impact-driven professionals breaking barriers to change how CROs deliver excellence.
Our mission is to combine passion and purpose every day to improve lives. We believe every role matters and we foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment where professionals from diverse backgrounds can thrive. If you share our vision of innovation and patient-centric innovation, we’d love to work together.
Why Join Worldwide?
At Worldwide, we empower our teams to make a world of difference. Here’s why we stand out:
- Passion-driven purpose: We work to advance therapies that enhance patients’ lives.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: We prioritize collaboration, creativity, and professional growth.
- Global opportunity: Join a workforce that spans millions+ in global operations and operations.
- Impactful work: Your role fuels real-world change in healthcare innovation.
This isn’t just employment—it’s a personal journey to something greater.
The Vendor Management Team
The Vendor Management function at Worldwide fuels strategic success through:
- Cross-functional excellence: Driving exceptional outsourced services.
- Risk mitigation & cost control: Managing risks while maximizing vendor value.
- Partnership building: Converting transactions into long-term collaborative relationships.
Vendor Management oversees the entire vendor lifecycle from sourcing, onboarding, development, to offboarding, ensuring seamless execution and mutually beneficial partnerships.
What You’ll Do
In this pivotal role, you’ll manage vendor contracts with precision, efficiency, and ambition:
- Develop virtually flawless vendor contracts—incorporating budgets, scopes of work into templates—earning approvals.
- Review contracts for inaccuracy, omittances, or ambiguous terms, ensuring technical correctness.
- Draft proofread and edit correspondence (expertise in MS Word).
- Manage the contract approval workflow, documenting all authorizations (legal, financial, and management approvals).
- Track vendor contracts and accompanying documentation for compliance.
- Document policy, process deviations, or mandate substations.
- Assist the Director of Contracts in secondary vendor negotiations, refining terms and conditions.
- Build rapid, proactive relationships—internal/ external responsiveness improves outcomes.
- Handle confidential, sensitive materials with discretion.
- Monitor and update departmental and team documentation in SharePoint, maintaining accuracy.
- Engage in cross-office collaboration, aligning teams between U.S. and international.
- Lead initiatives as assigned while keeping management updated.
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What You’ll Bring
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Essential Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication paired with cosmetic precision.
- Discretion and diplomacy: professionalism under tight deadlines or complex scenarios.
- Ambitious, high-attention-to-detail driven, with the capability to work independently or within an agile team.
- Multitasking proficiency: execution of multiple projects simultaneously—prioritization and independent judgment.
- Resilience and anticipatory thought—recognizing alternative needs and directing work efficiently.
- Tech adaptive—proficient in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, with aptitude for advanced tools.
- Data literacy: understanding of contract terms, financial evaluations, and legal ramifications.
- Redlining expertise—down-to-details experience editing terms for central labs, contracts, service leases, and licensing agreements.
- **Process improvement_: drafting recommendations (contract procedures, trends, etc.).
Ideal Background
We prefer—and recognize—candidates with industry-specific experience:
- Minimum 2-4 years in CRO vendor contract administration, management, or distribution.
- 2+ years assisting or directly negotiating vendor contracts.
- Secondary degrees—Bachelor’s, or higher—in business administration, law, or related studies.
Professional Experience
- An CSO Perspective: Conflict reduction.
- Elevated judgement: Experiential problem-solving (years).
- Contract complexity: Proven track record in navigating negotiation stages.
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Culture & Opportunity
At Worldwide, we value team health as much as individual ambition.
Professional Setting
You’ll be part of a dedicated team operating in Hillsborough, NC with virtual-office flexibility. We celebrate:
- Adaptability—thriving in rapidly evolving environments.
- Ownership—driven to deliver, even on unexpected tasks.
- Collaboration—regardless of location, we build seamless, strategic harmony.
You’ve hit on our expectation for creativity and perseverance—now we’d like to hear from you.
Salary & Benefits
Compensation Transparency
Employer: [Worldwide Clinical Trials] Position: Senior Vendor Contract Admin Expected Salary (annual—U.S. based): $52,500.00 - $104,500.00
Compensation details above are indicative and contextual, determined by quantity/quality of experience.
When to Enquire
Compensation during interviews will align closely with your professional trajectory—we encourage candid conversations and options.
We are not accredited by formal pay scales; once you apply, your negotiation strength will set expectations. After evaluating your qualifications, background, and contributions, funding will reaffirm comfort fulfilling the position at equity-partnered terms.
We also offer:
- Strong inter-door collaboration—connecting opportunities with purpose.
- An inclusive, dynamically developing organization—growing teams and values together.
- The long-term commitment and a sense that your work matters.
Please join our team if you are ready to make impactful, standardized “difference” year over year. Apply or ** заявить о интересе** today.
Legal Considerations
wages are compensated based on federal, state, or international standards applicable. We in Worldwide:
- operate with
- legal transparency
- consistent human rights compliance.
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To spot similar opportunities, check our career page or connect with us via LinkedIn.
Join Us!
Whether you specialize in contract fundamentals, operations compromises, or the deeper facets of enterprise relationship management, Worldwide welcomes problem solvers.
Are you ready to be part of the solution for at-risk patient populations around the world?
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