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🕒 June 5

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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 in accordance with local/accepted process • Negotiates within approved parameters both investigator grant budget negotiation parameters, contractual terms and conditions in accordance with company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations, established process with sites and follows established escalation routes • Negotiate directly with assigned sites on all site related contracting items including clinical trial agreements, budgets, payment terms, ancillary agreements and amendments • Partner with internal Study Startup team, CROs, Clinical Operations teams, and TAU partners to improve overall SB&C metrics and deliver processes • Ensure standards are applied to the SB&C processes across projects • Leverage leading industry tools and data sources to provide budget and contract feedback aligned with parameters and fair market value guidance • Promptly recognize and improve potential delays and escalate to appropriate team members • Track all actions and negotiations to ensure timelines are achieved for studies and sites assigned • Support resolving escalated issues identified by the site activation sub-team in partnership with the internal Study Startup team

🎯 Requirements

• 2 or more years of experience in clinical research site contracting and budgeting within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or relevant industry vendor • Ability to explain data to facilitate decision making processes to be data driven • Knowledge and understanding of clinical study protocols and schedule of assessments • Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., clinical development, the prescription drug distribution process, etc.) • Understanding of Clinical Trial Agreements, budgeting and fair market value principals • Knowledge or FDA and ICH-GCP guidelines for conducting clinical research

🏖️ Benefits

• extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees • flexible working culture • work-life balance • award-winning learning and development programme