The Associate Director, Clinical Trial Budget Planning & Management is responsible for enabling the planning, forecasting, tracking, analysis, and financial oversight of clinical operations budgets across the portfolio. This individual will serve as a partner to Clinical Operations Program Leads and Finance to enable accurate trial budget forecasting, vendor budget assessments for cost efficiency, and financial transparency throughout the lifecycle of clinical trials.

Clinical Trial Budget Planning & Forecasting

Collaborate with study Operations Program Leads (OPLs) for development of annual operating budgets, long-range plans, and quarterly forecasts for clinical trial budgets.

Partner with Clinical Operations and Finance to develop activity-based budget assumptions reflecting efficient labor requirements from vendors (CROs) to support enrollment timelines, site activations, and site monitoring and management strategies.

Build and maintain detailed trial-level and program-level budget models incorporating planned expenditures, and anticipated timing of spend.

Develop multi-year forecasts and scenario analyses to support portfolio planning and strategic decision making.

Evaluate budget impacts associated with protocol amendments, study expansions, country additions, enrollment changes, and vendor scope modifications.

Support vendor engagement strategy discussions through financial analyses and budget recommendations.

Financial Tracking, Governance & Performance Management

Maintain visibility into actual spend, committed spend, accruals, and forecasted expenditures across multiple clinical programs.

Monitor purchase orders, invoices, contract commitments, milestone payments, and activities impacting accrual calculations.

Perform regular budget reviews and variance analyses to identify key drivers of financial performance.

Associate Director, Clinical Trial Budget Planning & Management

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Benefits

Company

Legendcareers

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