# Sr Site Contracts Specialist/Contract Navigator

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $56,400.00 - $95,900.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a Sr Site Contracts Specialist/Contract Navigator to support the end-to-end contracting process for internal stakeholders and external parties.

The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational guidance, coordinate cross-functional activities, and help ensure contracts are executed efficiently, accurately, and in accordance with applicable policies, legal requirements, and ethical standards.

**Core Responsibilities:**

- Guide stakeholders through the contracting process to reduce administrative burden and accelerate project execution.

- Manage contract-related activities from intake through completion, including coordination, tracking, documentation, and issue resolution.

- Apply critical thinking to evaluate requests, clarify business needs, identify risks and gaps, and recommend appropriate paths forward.

- Exercise independent judgment and discretion when addressing complex, high-priority, or time-sensitive matters.

- Build and maintain productive relationships across a matrix organization, aligning stakeholders with different priorities, responsibilities, and decision-making authority.

- Serve as a strategic thought partner who can influence outcomes without direct authority and promote timely, transparent, and informed decisions.

- Coordinate with internal partner functions and external parties during contract development and negotiation, including discussion of business terms and financial considerations.

- Implement applicable strategies, standards, processes, and controls in alignment with business needs and operational objectives.

- Maintain visibility into contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and related activities so stakeholders can monitor project status, risks, and next steps.

- Proactively identify and resolve process, purchase order, invoice, and vendor issues, escalating when appropriate.

- Identify improvement opportunities, remove barriers, share best practices, and help develop scalable tools and processes.

- Promote customer focus, enterprise thinking, cross-functional collaboration, compliance, ethics, safety, and responsible risk management.

**Qualifications and Experience:**

- Bachelor’s degree in science, business, law, operations, or a related field; a legal or paralegal credential is preferred.

- Five or more years of relevant experience in a regulated, contract-intensive, or similarly complex CRO environment working with site contracts, CDAs, HCP, Vendor Agreements, and/or other types of contracts.

- Demonstrated ability to think critically, analyze complex information, anticipate downstream impacts, and make well-reasoned recommendations.

- Experience working effectively in a matrix environment with cross-functional teams and shared accountability.

- Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and deliver accurate results within established timelines.

- Demonstrated compliance aptitude, including the ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, legal requirements, and ethical standards; recognize potential compliance risks; and escalate concerns appropriately.

- Experience with contract processes, purchasing, invoicing, vendor management, or related systems and tools is preferred.

**Benefits:**

- Company car or car allowance

- Health benefits, including Medical, Dental, and Vision

- Company match 401k

- Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

## Skills

### Required
- contract management
- critical thinking
- stakeholder management
- communication
- negotiation
- influencing
- compliance

### Nice to have
- legal or paralegal credential
- contract processes
- purchasing
- invoicing
- vendor management

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