Clinical Trial Budgets & Contracts Analyst (CTA Amendments)

About the role

Equity Medical is looking for a full-time Clinical Trial Budgets & Contracts Analyst to handle CTA and budget amendments for clinical trials. The role is remote, within the GMT-06:00 to GMT-04:00 time zone, and focuses on driving clinical trial advancement through complex budget negotiations. Compensation is listed as USD 10K - 15K per year.

Key responsibilities

• Own assigned CTA and budget amendments, including those 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, identifying added or changed visits, procedures, screening requirements, cohorts and extension phases to price
• 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, payment terms, holdbacks, invoicing timelines and payment for work already performed
• Work with site teams and Finance to verify what was performed and what can be invoiced
• Hand off executed amendments with updated budgets, effective dates and retroactive billing terms, track status, deadlines and document versions, and flag recurring budget gaps
• Escalate legal issues such as indemnification, subject injury and intellectual property to leadership or counsel

Required profile

• At least three years of experience negotiating clinical trial agreements and budgets, including 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 translate a protocol amendment into a revised site budget and explain the basis of a counterproposal
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. site budgets and payment terms
• Ability to manage 20 or more concurrent amendments and follow up independently

Required skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word Track Changes and Microsoft Excel
• Fluent English for direct negotiations with sponsors and CROs