Clinical Trial Budgets & Contracts Analyst – CTA Amendments

I’m helping Equity Medical find a top candidate to join their team full-time for the role of Clinical Trial Budgets & Contracts Analyst – CTA Amendments.

You will drive clinical trial advancement by mastering complex budget negotiations.

Compensation:

USD 10K - 15K/year

Location:

Remote (specific timezones) - GMT-06:00 to GMT-04:00

Mission of Equity Medical:

"Advance clinical research by providing patient-centered trials and expanding access to innovative treatments across diverse communities."

What makes you a strong candidate:

• You have +3 years experience in Contract negotiation, Budget management.
• You are proficient in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Clinical research.
• English - Fully fluent

Responsibilities and more:

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of assigned CTA and budget amendments, including requests already in negotiation.
• Review the current agreement, budget, and sponsor or CRO correspondence to identify open issues and next steps.
• Compare revised protocols and visit schedules against the executed budget.
• Identify added or changed visits, procedures, screening requirements, cohorts, and extension phases that need to be priced.
• Draft and redline CTA amendments and budget exhibits.
• Build Excel counterproposals covering per-visit costs, invoiceable items, screen failures, pass-through costs, and site overhead.
• Negotiate directly with sponsor and CRO contacts on rates and payment terms, including holdbacks, invoicing timelines, and payment for work sites have already performed.
• Work with site teams and Finance to verify what was performed, what can be invoiced, and what remains outstanding.
• Hand off executed amendments with the updated budget, effective dates, and any retroactive billing terms.
• Track status, deadlines, and document versions through signature.
• Flag recurring budget gaps.
• Escalate legal issues such as indemnification, subject injury, and intellectual property to leadership or counsel.

Required Experience:

• At least three years of experience negotiating clinical trial agreements and budgets, including direct responsibility for drafting, redlining, and negotiating CTA and budget amendments for U.S. studies.
• Experience at a research site, site network, site management organization, research institution, or CRO.
• Ability to independently translate a protocol amendment into a revised site budget and explain the basis for a counterproposal.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. site budgets and payment terms, including per-visit costs, invoiceables, pass-throughs, overhead, and payment schedules.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word Track Changes and Excel, plus strong written and spoken English for direct negotiations with sponsors and CROs.
• Ability to manage 20 or more concurrent amendments, prioritize issues that affect site payments, and follow up independently.

Your potential leader:

• Grace Ulerio