Associate Director, Clinical Site Budgets & Payments

Role Overview

The Associate Director, Clinical Site Budgets & Payments will architect and lead the company's global approach to clinical trial site budgeting, investigator grant strategy, transparency compliance, and site/vendor payment governance across our clinical trial portfolio. This leader will define Jade's global investigator grant philosophy, including structured opening offer and negotiation parameters that ensure speed, fairness, and alignment with global FMV benchmarks. They will establish standards for invoiceables, conditional procedures, pass-through costs, and country-specific budgeting norms that apply across all Jade clinical studies.

This role oversees a full-service CRO partner responsible for operational execution of budgets, payments, reconciliation, and study financial controls. It also builds and maintains global site budget forecasts, ensures just-in-time CRO funding, and supports accruals, reconciliation, and inspection-readiness.

The successful candidate must be equally fluent in clinical trial protocols and financial statements, highly skilled in influencing cross-functional and vendor partners, and able to uphold strict compliance with FMV and Sunshine/Open Payments regulations. This is a high-visibility, individual-contributor role reporting directly to the Executive Director, Development Outsourcing and operating globally across all Jade studies. The position is remote, with domestic travel up to four times per year.

Key Responsibilities

Global Payment Philosophy, Compliance & Governance

• Define Jade's global investigator grant strategy, including opening-offer tiers, decision and negotiation parameters, aligned with international FMV standards.
• Establish and maintain policies for invoiceables, pass-throughs, conditional procedures, screen-fail handling, and complex visit structures; ensure global consistency.
• Develop and maintain SOPs/WIs governing budgeting, payments, documentation, and global transparency requirements (e.g., U.S. Sunshine/Open Payments and ex-US equivalents).
• Define FMV justification expectations and ensure audit-ready documentation across all investigator/HCP engagements.

Study-Level Budget Design & Financial Oversight

• Translate clinical protocols into country-specific and site-level cost models that accurately reflect procedures, visit schedules, and conditional events.
• Build and maintain global study budget forecasts, partnering closely with Clinical Operations and Finance to ensure alignment with development plans.
• Implement and monitor just-in-time CRO funding, minimizing idle capital.