Alex Hyler
Raleigh,NC
Summary
A tenacious senior manager who is an efficient problem solver and go-getter. A strong leader who works across functional lines to decrease costs and promote efficiencies across global study start-up operations. Contract management with a focus on negotiations is one of my specialties. Curiosity, determination, and empowering others are core values I pride myself on.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Investigator Contracts Lead
Pfizer
04.2024 - Current
- Subject matter expert (SME) for strategic partner sites at Pfizer; Supporting this initiative by developing working process documents for contracts team for all strategic partners (+150 sites)
- Acts as ICL trainer and mentor; Develop presentations for training purposes for broader contracts team
- Develop country-level intelligence for numerous countries to support ROW contract & budget negotiations
- Serves as SME for Argentina and Brazil network sites; High enroller sites with +2,000 patients
- Negotiates clinical study agreements and ancillary documents with investigative sites across vaccine studies
- Collaborates and supports Pfizer Study Teams and CRO colleagues with on-site contract and budget negotiations
- Applies and understands benchmark cost data, relationships, and trends across clinical studies
- Partners with Legal and other divisions to manage escalations in site contracting space
- Applies advanced knowledge of principles, concepts and theories for site contracting
- Supports development of investigator site budget for all markets
Investigator Contracts Lead
Pfizer
01.2022 - 04.2024
- Served as SME for Mobile Research Units (MRU) sites; Developed unique contracts and budgets for MRUs and worked across functional lines for site activation
- Served as SME for Argentina and Brazil network sites; High enroller sites with +2,000 patients
- Negotiated +100 clinical study agreements and ancillary documents with investigative sites across vaccine studies
- Collaborated and supported Pfizer Study Teams and CRO colleagues with on-site contract and budget negotiations
- Applied benchmark cost data, relationships, and trends across clinical studies
- Partnered with Legal and other divisions to manage escalations in site contracting space
- Applied advanced knowledge of principles, concepts and theories for site contracting
- Supported development of investigator site budget for all markets
Investigator Contracts Lead
Atrium Staffing (Pfizer)
07.2021 - 01.2022
- Negotiated +100 clinical study agreements and ancillary documents with investigative sites across vaccine studies
- Collaborated and supported Pfizer Study Teams and CRO colleagues with on-site contract and budget negotiations
- Applied benchmark cost data, relationships, and trends across clinical studies
- Partnered with Legal and other divisions to manage escalations in site contracting space
- Applied advanced knowledge of principles, concepts and theories for site contracting
- Supported development of investigator site budget for all markets
Principal Site Contracts Specialist
Worldwide Clinical Trials
03.2021 - 07.2021
- Served as lead and subject matter expert on CTA processes
- Developed and provided expert and strategic pathways for successful site contract execution across 6 studies
- Negotiated and finalized CTA templates, fallback language, and budget negotiation parameters with project leads and Sponsors
- Recognized potential problems/areas of concern and formulated contingency plans during early stages of CTA development
- Developed and implemented mitigation plans to ensure CTA deliverables are met
- Resolved site contract negotiation issues
- Presented site contract negotiation processes at Kick-Off and alignment meetings
Associate Site Contracts Manager
Synteract
03.2019 - 03.2021
- Developed Clinical Trial Agreements, Amendments, Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements, and Addendums
- Resolved significant contractual issues and, if needed, ensured timely elevation to executive management and/or legal counsel
- Established fallback language and negotiation parameters with Sponsors
- Negotiated Clinical Trial Agreements and site budgets with academic and non-academic institutions, both in the US and Rest of World (UK, Germany, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Nepal)
- Lead site contract-specific teleconference calls internally and with Sponsors
- Attended and presented at Kick-Off meetings to speak to the site contracts negotiation process and timelines
Education
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC08.2024
Master of Arts - Linguistics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC05.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish And Biological Sciences
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC05.2015
Skills
- Contract and Budget Negotiation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Operations & Project Management
- Clinical Trials
- Study start-up and Activation
- Mentoring
- Communication
Publications
Chapter 2. The changing rhythm of Yucatan Spanish in Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain. John Benjamins Publishing Company, August 2020
Spanish in North Carolina: English-Origin loanwords in a newly forming Hispanic community. In Language Variety in the New South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 289-305
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
Senior Manager, Investigator Contracts Lead
Pfizer
04.2024 - Current
Investigator Contracts Lead
Pfizer
01.2022 - 04.2024
Investigator Contracts Lead
Atrium Staffing (Pfizer)
07.2021 - 01.2022
Principal Site Contracts Specialist
Worldwide Clinical Trials
03.2021 - 07.2021
Associate Site Contracts Manager
Synteract
03.2019 - 03.2021
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Campbell University
Master of Arts - Linguistics
North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish And Biological Sciences
North Carolina State University