Senior Site Contract Specialist

🕒 September 10

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize agreements with study sites • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, budgets, templates and client expectations • Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for Investigator Contracts negotiations • Coordinate with internal functional departments on site startup activities and timelines • Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Track and report as required • Train and mentor junior staff • Participate in country process improvement initiatives and country team meetings • Act as country subject matter expert for Investigator Contracts training materials • Liaise with Global Site Contracts to ensure compliance with global processes and corporate directives • Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports • Lead amendment/novation client projects when required • Oversee confidentiality agreement negotiations when required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 5+ years of comparable experience • Knowledge of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and local language • Ability to negotiate investigator grant budgets within approved parameters • Strong attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills • Knowledge of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement • Ability to work independently and in a team environment • Organizational and time management skills • Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs • Ability to manage competing priorities and contractual risks • Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications • Customer-focused communication, problem-solving and collaboration skills • Ability to train and mentor staff • Ability to provide feedback to Investigator Analysts • Strong risk analysis and problem-solving skills • Ability to negotiate Investigator Contracts in the best interests of the company and client • Ability to work upright and/or stationary for 6–8 hours per day • Frequent mobility; occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs • Regular and consistent attendance

🏖️ Benefits

• Global team environment • Collaboration and development opportunities • Scientific excellence-focused workplace