Associate Contract Manager

🕒 5 days ago

🇷🇸 Serbia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👔 Manager

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Lead the review, negotiation, and finalization of contract templates, processes, and negotiation parameters with clients • Provide contractual risk assessments and liaise with the legal department during country process improvement initiatives • Negotiate contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters and follow escalation routes • Communicate approved contract templates, processes, negotiation parameters, and client expectations to assigned team members • Ensure collaboration and quality alignment with terms, conditions, processes, and client expectations • Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks • Act as regional interface and escalation contact with external clients for revisions outside approved parameters and process deviations • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for contract negotiations • Coordinate with internal functional departments on site startup activities affected by contractual activities • Contribute to departmental change initiatives • Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports • Deliver training materials to team members

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 5+ years of relevant experience or comparable experience providing the required knowledge, skills, and abilities • Equivalency may consist of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience • Mastery of contract law principles, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws • Thorough understanding of business, contractual and financial principles related to service agreements • Strong verbal and written English communication skills • Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions within parameters • Strong attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking • In-depth understanding of clinical drug development and trial processes within the pharmaceutical and/or CRO industry • Excellent organizational and time management skills • Excellent customer-focused communication, problem-solving and collaboration skills • Proficiency with automated systems and Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, etc. • Excellent problem-solving, risk assessment and impact analysis abilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Global team environment • Resources to achieve individual career goals • Career development and collaboration opportunities • Healthy and balanced working environment • Meaningful work supporting life-changing therapies and improved health outcomes