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Contract Specialist

🔥 14 minutes ago

🇬🇷 Greece – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

✨ Contract Specialist

Where this job comes from

Posted on Thermo Fisher Scientific's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 14 minutes ago

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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 according to local and accepted processes • Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, authority 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 to align site startup and contractual activities with mutually agreed timelines • Align contract negotiation activities with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Escalate out-of-parameter issues through established channels

🎯 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 • Equivalency through a 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 the local language • Ability, with appropriate oversight, to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters • 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 skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment • Fully remote work arrangement

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