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.
Senior Site Contract Specialist
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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 • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, budgetary guidance, templates, and client expectations • Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for Investigator Contracts negotiations • Coordinate with internal functional departments on site startup activities and contractual timelines • Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation and achieve target cycle times • Complete tracking, reporting, periodic quality reviews, and peer feedback reports • Provide training and mentoring to junior staff • Participate in country process improvement initiatives and country team meetings • Act as country subject matter expert for Investigator Contracts training materials • Liaise with Global Site Contracts to ensure compliance with global processes and corporate directives • Potentially lead amendment/novation client projects and oversee confidentiality agreement negotiations
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification • 5+ years of comparable experience • Combination of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience may be considered equivalent • Detailed understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax, and stamp laws • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language • Demonstrated ability to negotiate investigator grant budgets within approved parameters • Strong attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills • Knowledge 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 • Ability to train and mentor staff independently • Ability to provide feedback to Investigator Analysts • Strong problem-solving and risk-analysis skills • Ability to negotiate Investigator Contracts in the best interests of the company and client • Ability to work upright and/or stationary for 6–8 hours per day • Ability to perform repetitive hand movements and frequent mobility • Ability to occasionally crouch, stoop, bend, and twist • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs • Regular and consistent attendance • Ability to perform under stress and multitask
🏖️ Benefits
• Collaboration and development as part of the everyday experience • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities during the application/interview process and employment • Equal opportunity employment
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