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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 • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, budget 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 so site startup and contractual activities align with 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 processes • Liaise with study sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships and support quality, objectivity, and risk analysis in contract delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 2–5 years of comparable experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job • Equivalency may be accepted through appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience • Good understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax, and stamp laws influencing contract language • Ability to apply basic investigator grant negotiation principles • 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 • Customer-focused communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills • 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 the upper body and neck • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs • Regular and consistent attendance; ability to multitask and perform under stress

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities during application, interview, and employment • Benefits and privileges of employment