Senior Manager, Clinical Business Operations

The role

The Senior Manager, Clinical Business Operations will manage vendor selection, contracts, budgets, and performance metrics. This person will partner with clinical study teams and senior stakeholders to ensure vendors meet goals, service levels, budgets, and timelines.

What you will do

• Identify, engage and contract with clinical vendors and manage relationships with key vendor stakeholders.
• Manage the RFP and vendor selection process.
• Oversee the negotiation and execution of contractual agreements and change orders.
• Work with clinical study leads and cross-functional teams to establish governance processes.
• Monitor service levels and key performance indicators with key clinical vendors.
• Manage issue escalation and resolution.
• Partner with finance on the monthly accruals.
• Provide support for financial planning and the financial management of clinical studies.
• Develop more efficient processes to calculate budgets and track expenses.
• Identify opportunities for operational and process improvements and efficiencies.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience with all aspects of vendor oversight or alliance management including vendor selection, RFP process, contract development, and performance management.
• Expertise working with cross-functional teams such as clinical operations, finance, legal, quality, systems and process.
• Strong understanding of clinical development phase activity finance with hands on financial analytics experience.
• Effective negotiation, project management and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills.
• Motivated self-starter capable of flourishing in a fast-paced small company environment.
• Creative problem-solver with excellent communication and public speaking skills.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Pragmatic and able to manage multiple projects and needs effectively.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of experience in clinical vendor management and/or clinical financial management.
• Sponsor experience is strongly preferred.

About the company

Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process. The company uses a Dynamo platform to integrate experimental and computational approaches to drug protein targets.