Study Contract Manager
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Occupation Type
Business and financial project management professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£56,500
(£28.97 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Introduction To Role
Are you ready to turn precise contracting into faster site start-up and greater impact for people living with cancer? Do you thrive at the intersection of finance, law, and clinical operations, where clear agreements drive real-world outcomes?
In this role, you will shape how clinical sites partner with us, ensuring budgets reflect Fair Market Value, terms are watertight, and timelines move with purpose. Your work will help accelerate studies across a rich pipeline in cancer, connecting rigorous contracting with patient access to novel therapies sooner.
You will join a high-energy team committed to advancing transformative medicines. By leading negotiations and safeguarding contract integrity, you will remove friction from study start-up, protect audit readiness, and enable our scientists and clinicians to focus on delivering the next wave of breakthroughs.
Accountabilities
Are you ready to turn precise contracting into faster site start-up and greater impact for people living with cancer? Do you thrive at the intersection of finance, law, and clinical operations, where clear agreements drive real-world outcomes?
In this role, you will shape how clinical sites partner with us, ensuring budgets reflect Fair Market Value, terms are watertight, and timelines move with purpose. Your work will help accelerate studies across a rich pipeline in cancer, connecting rigorous contracting with patient access to novel therapies sooner.
You will join a high-energy team committed to advancing transformative medicines. By leading negotiations and safeguarding contract integrity, you will remove friction from study start-up, protect audit readiness, and enable our scientists and clinicians to focus on delivering the next wave of breakthroughs.
Accountabilities
- Local Contracting Excellence: Adapt global agreement templates for local use in line with local requirements and SOPs to ensure compliant, fit-for-purpose contracts.
- Budget Development: Build clinical site budgets based on Fair Market Value to create transparent and sustainable financial frameworks for each site.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Adapt global templates of agreements to local use in accordance with local requirements and SOPs.
- Develop and negotiate clinical site budgets based on Fair Market Value.
- Negotiate agreement language and budget with clinical study sites.
- Act as point of contact and interface with Legal if necessary to ensure integrity of contracts.
- For each agreement maintain the status of agreement, budgets, issues, payments, any amendments for the duration of the study, and communications with internal and external sources.
- Ensure final contract documents are consistent with agreements reached at negotiations.
- Ensure all agreements are executed in a timely manner contributing to efficient site start-up timelines.
- Support internal and external audit activities.
- Ensure compliance with AstraZeneca’s Code of Conduct and company policies and procedures relating to people, finance, technology and security.
- Ensure that all contracts are included in the TMF.
- Training and mentoring of new members of the local Study Team regarding financial/contractual issues and sharing experiences.
Here, your contracting expertise fuels science with urgency and care. We are advancing a diverse pipeline in cancer and investing at pace, aiming to bring multiple new medicines to patients by 2025. You will work alongside experts from clinical operations, legal, finance, data, and discovery—unexpected teams in the same room unleashing bold thinking—so that complex studies move faster and smarter. We back ambition with practical support, value kindness alongside high standards, and collaborate deeply with leading hospitals and academic centers to tackle some of the toughest cancers. Every precise clause you negotiate and every day you save helps transform potential into real patient benefit.
Call To Action
If you are ready to turn sharp negotiation and meticulous execution into faster trials and bigger patient impact, step forward and help shape what comes next!
Date Posted
03-mar.-2026
Closing Date
17-mar.-2026
Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.
Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.