Associate Director, Study Startup (CONTRACT)

Required

• You know clinical site budgets from the inside: how a protocol translates into procedures, how procedure-level benchmarks and institutional overheads differ by country, and where negotiations typically stall. You are comfortable holding a firm, well-reasoned position with a site while keeping the relationship intact, and you know when to escalate. You bring structure to complex, cross-functional study start up work and use data to shorten cycle times rather than just report on them.
• Position Overview
• Eikon Therapeutics is seeking an Associate Director, Contracts & Budgets Management and Negotiations to join our Study Start Up group within Clinical Operations. This role is the Clinical Operations global subject-matter lead for investigator site budgets and clinical trial agreements (CTAs) across our oncology portfolio. You will own the strategy, standards, and execution for building, benchmarking, and negotiating site budgets so that CTAs are executed rapidly, consistently, and with a defensible Fair Market Value (FMV) basis, enabling on-time site activation. You will partner closely with Clinical Study Management, Legal, Finance, Regulatory, Data Management, and our contracting vendors, and you will be the escalation point for out-of-parameter budget and payment-term requests. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will negotiate directly on priority sites and studies while also setting the playbook that others follow.
• This role requires onsite presence at minimum 3 days per week to support effective management, operational excellence, and high-performance delivery of clinical studies and expected team growth & collaboration.
• Typically requires a minimum of: 10+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 8+ years with a post graduate degree. Extensive experience in clinical operations / study start up / investigator site budget roles.
• Strong knowledge of clinical trial start up processes.
• Demonstrated expertise building site budgets from protocols using procedure-level benchmarking tools (e.g., IQVIA GrantPlan), CPT and procedure-code mapping, and country-specific cost structures, with application of Fair Market Value principles.
• Proven ability to successfully manage multiple clinical trials in study start up.
• Excellent project management skills with a focus on delivering results within established timelines and budgets.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to prioritize tasks and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong familiarity with Veeva Vault Clinical (CTMS and eTMF).