Contract Specialist – Client Dedicated

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🌐 Belgium, Netherlands – Remote

🇧🇪 Belgium – Remote 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

✨ Contract Specialist

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🏥 Healthcare

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with a stated mission to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The company provides a broad portfolio of laboratory instruments, analytical technologies, diagnostics, consumables, software and services that support life‑sciences research, analytical testing, clinical diagnostics and the development and manufacture of therapies. Its operations and offerings (as described on its site and in its news) include advanced imaging and electron microscopes, chromatography and mass‑spectrometry systems, genetic and clinical testing, lab automation and AI tools, bioprocessing and contract development/manufacturing services (brands cited include Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Gibco, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD). Thermo Fisher reports annual revenue over $45 billion and emphasizes corporate social responsibility, environmental and community programs alongside its scientific products and services.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize agreements with clinical study sites • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes and client expectations • Ensure compliance with budgetary guidance, templates and processes • Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for investigator contract 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 • Escalate out-of-parameter issues through established processes • Liaise with sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships • Support contract delivery across a global clinical-trial organization supporting pharmaceutical and biotech companies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 2–5 years of comparable experience • Equivalency may consist of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience • Good understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws • Ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation • General understanding of business and financial principles related to service agreements • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language • Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters, with appropriate oversight • Attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-making skills • Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement • Ability to work independently or in a team environment • Organizational and time management skills • Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs • Ability to organize competing priorities and review contractual risks and issues • Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications • Customer-focused communication, problem solving and collaboration • Ability to work upright and/or stationary for 6–8 hours per day • Ability to perform repetitive hand movements and frequent mobility • Ability to occasionally crouch, stoop, bend and twist • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs • Ability to communicate and understand spoken and written information • Ability to perform under stress, multitask and maintain regular attendance

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work mode • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule

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