Contract Specialist

🔥 14 hours ago

🌐 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

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, contractual terms, and conditions within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, client expectations, budgetary guidance, templates, and procedures • 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 contractual 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 channels • Liaise with study sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships and ensure efficient contract delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 2–5 years of previous experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job • An equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered sufficient • Good understanding of contract law principles, 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 communication skills in English and local language • Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters • Attention to detail and excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills • Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement • Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs • Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications • Ability to organize competing priorities and review contractual risks and issues • Regular and consistent attendance • Ability to work in Belgium or the Netherlands

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully Remote work arrangement • Full-time employment