Contract Specialist

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🕒 June 12

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Science

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

• Drafts, reviews, negotiates and finalizes agreements with study sites • Negotiates within approved parameters both investigator grant budget parameters and contractual terms • Ensures compliance to established negotiation parameters, authority approval, and client expectations • Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process • Identifies and assesses legal, financial and operational risks • Provides recommendations and alternative resolutions to Investigator Contracts negotiations • Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Ensures guidelines and processes are followed for escalation of out of parameter issues

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2-5 years) • Good understanding of the principles of contract law • Demonstrated ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation • General understanding of business and financial principles • Effective communication skills (verbal & written) in English and local language • Capable, with appropriate oversight, of drafting and negotiating contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters • Demonstrated ability in attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision based thinking skills • Understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities