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Director of Proposals

Vial

Vial

Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Friday, March 17, 2023
Who We Are
Vial's vision is to empower scientists to cure all human disease. Vial was founded on a mission to
reimagine clinical trials and deliver faster and more efficient trials for sponsors. Through our end to end technology platform, we are delivering on a generational opportunity to make trials radically more efficient.
Vial’s co-founders (Simon Burns and Andrew Brackin) were early team members at $1B+ startups Robinhood, Opendoor and Newfront. Our early team is made up of experienced technology and operations leaders from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Faire, Chime and other leading technology companies.
Vial was founded in Oct 2020 and has grown the team to over 100 across the business. Come join us on our adventure to reimagine clinical trials.
What You’ll Do
Overview
We’re looking to hire a Director/Senior Director, Proposals and Contracts with a genuine passion for clinical research and working in a dynamic environment for a high growth organization. This role will be a key contributor to the evolution of Vial’s business development group, and will hold the responsibilities associated with managing a team of Proposals and Contracts Associates to ensure timely and accurate responses to sponsor RFPs, development of high quality proposals, contracts, and process improvement initiatives within the business development process.
This role is fully remote, based anywhere in Canada with a preference for Pacific Time Zone. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide employee sponsorship.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end proposal development process being performed by your team, in collaboration with cross functional leadership, to ensure on time delivery of high quality proposals.
- Suggests and implements pricing and proposal strategies to improve quality of proposal based on experience in similar situations or RFPs/Change Orders.
- Schedule and participate in strategy calls and budget review calls in accordance with submission timelines.
- Coordinate budget and contract revisions internally, with vendors and with Sponsors, as needed.
- Evaluates and monitors contracts for completeness, accuracy, compliance and implementation to ensure adherence to regulatory and internal standards- Performs quality control reviews on documents (proposals, contracts, etc.).
- Maintains budget/contract templates, accurate files and databases.
Who Are You
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, or life science or equivalent defined as a minimum of 4+ years related, combined experience in employment, education, knowledge, and skills that will enable the incumbent to competently perform the duties of the role.
- Minimum 4 years in proposal development preferably in CRO managing vendor/client contract relations.
- Finance background in the healthcare industry and global experience strongly preferred
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Why You’ll Love Working At Vial
We are innately curious. We found our calling in clinical trials after learning the pain points directly. It is our curiosity that propels us to keep building, finding new challenges, and fulfilling our vision of reimagining clinical trials.
We believe in autonomy. Team members do their best work when given autonomy. In order to make an impact on the scale of the Vial vision, we built our culture to enable each Vial team member to feel ownership of their domain.
We take pride in building mastery. We believe in building master in a craft. Craftsmanship, a pride in one’s craft, is key to prolonged engagement on a difficult challenge. Vial’s culture is one of highly autonomous, deeply focused experts working on an immensely hard problem together.
Our strength is moving fast and staying humble. We believe that if we build a team that is intellectually honest, that we stay nimble and keep an open mind to all solutions - we’ll be adaptive and solve the problems that face us at every turn.
Benefits
Competitive Equity Compensation
Health, Dental, and Vision
Remote-First
Paid Parental Leave
Unlimited Vacation