Contract Specialist

🔥 2 hours ago

🇲🇽 Mexico – 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 study sites • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, authority approvals, contractual processes, client expectations, budget guidance, templates, and procedures • Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks and escalate them 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 • Ensure quality, objectivity, and risk analysis in contract delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 2–5 years of comparable experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities • Equivalent combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered • 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 local language • Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters, with appropriate oversight • Attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills • Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement • Ability to work independently or in a team environment • Good 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 • Repetitive hand movements and frequent mobility • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs • Regular and consistent attendance

🏖️ Benefits

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

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