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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 according to local and accepted processes • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms 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 on site startup activities, contractual activities, and mutually agreed timelines • Align contract negotiation processes with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Escalate out-of-parameter issues efficiently through established channels • Liaise with study sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships and deliver quality, objective, risk-aware contracts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification • 2–5 years of comparable previous experience; equivalency through appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience may be considered • 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 • Strong 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 effectively • Customer-focused communication, problem-solving, and collaboration style

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Extensive benefits package focused on employee health and well-being • Flexible working culture • Work-life balance • Award-winning learning and development programme • Collaborative environment • Opportunities to grow professionally and personally • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities