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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

• Monitors investigator sites with a risk-based monitoring approach: applies rootcause analysis (RCA), critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify siteprocesses failure and corrective/preventive actions to bring the site intocompliance and decrease risks. • Ensures data accuracy through SDR, SDV andCRF review as applicable through on-site and remote monitoring activities. • Assesses investigational product through physical inventory and records review. • Documents observations in reports and letters in a timely manner using approved business writing standards. • Escalates observed deficiencies and issues to clinical management expeditiously and follow all issues through to resolution. • May need to maintain regular contact between monitoring visits with investigative sites to confirm that the protocol is being followed, that previously identified issues are being resolved and that the data is being recorded in a timely manner. • Conducts monitoring tasks in accordance with the approved monitoring plan. • Participates in the investigator payment process. • Ensures a shared responsibility with other project team members on issues/findings resolution. • Investigates and follows-up on findings as applicable. • Provides trial status tracking and progress update reports to the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) as required. • Ensures study systems are updated per agreed study conventions (e.g. Clinical Trial Management System, CTMS). • Performs QC check of reports generated from CTMS system where required. • Participates in investigator meetings as necessary. • Identifies potential investigators in collaboration with the client company to ensure the acceptability of qualified investigative sites. • Initiates clinical trial sites according to the relevant procedures to ensure compliance with the protocol and regulatory and ICH GCP obligations, making recommendations where warranted. • Ensures trial close out and retrieval of trial materials. • Ensures that required essential documents are complete and in place, according to ICH-GCP and applicable regulations. • Conducts on-site file reviews as per project specifications. • Contributes to the project team by assisting in preparation of project publications/tools, and sharing ideas/suggestions with team members. • Performs additional study tasks as assigned by CTM (e.g. trip report review, newsletter creation, lead CRA team calls etc). • Facilitates effective communication between investigative sites, the client company and the PPD project team through written, oral and/or electronic contacts. • Responds to company, client and applicable regulatory requirements/audits/inspections. • Maintains & completes administrative tasks such as expense reports and timesheets in a timely manner. • Contributes to other project work and initiatives for process improvement, as required.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a life sciences related field or a Registered Nursing certification or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification. • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years as a clinical research monitor). • Valid driver's license where applicable • In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities