# Sr Manager, Global Site Activation, Legal Liaison

**Company**: IQVIA
**Location**: Sofia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Sr Manager, Global Site Activation, Legal Liaison is responsible for providing expert operational support and guidance for clinical trial contracting activities when IQVIA Biotech is a contracting party.

This role serves as a key point of contact for contracting matters, ensuring efficient issue resolution, consistency in contract practices, and alignment with internal legal and organisational requirements.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Provide study-specific contracting support to Project Managers, SSUMs, Site Contract Negotiators, and Global Template Developers.

- Act as the primary operational contact for complex contracting issues and facilitate timely resolution while escalating legal matters internally to the Legal Department as appropriate.

- Advise stakeholders on approved contracting positions, templates, and IQVIA contracting policies.

- Own and maintain the Global Site Contracts Library, including country-specific contract templates, guidance documents, and supporting materials.

- Lead the development, validation, maintenance, translation coordination, version control, and continuous improvement of contract templates.

- Ensure consistency with IQVIA Legal guidance and implement updated contracting practices across the site contracting team.

- Deliver training and ongoing support to Site Contracts teams on templates, contracting processes, governance, and escalation procedures.

- Collaborate cross-functionally to drive standardisation, operational excellence, and compliance in contracting activities.

- Support the evolution of contracting processes and tools to meet changing business and country-specific requirements.

**Experience:**

- Master's degree in law and a minimum of 5 years' demonstrable experience as a qualified lawyer, preferably in a law firm or as an In-House Legal Counsel.

- 5 years' relevant experience with a sponsor or clinical research organisation (CRO) or with pharma clients, preferably in clinical site contracting.

- Preference for exposure to pharmaceutical and/or CRO environment.

- Strong negotiating and communication skills with the ability to challenge.

- Ability to coordinate and collaborate across and within complex projects.

- Excellent legal, financial, and/or technical writing skills.

- Thorough understanding of the regulated clinical trial environment and knowledge of the drug development process.

- Knowledge and ability to apply GCP/ICH and applicable regulatory guidelines.

## Skills

### Required
- GCP/ICH
- clinical trial contracting
- legal guidance
- contract template development
- negotiation
- communication

### Nice to have
- pharmaceutical industry
- CRO experience
- clinical site contracting

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