FSP Contract Specialist

🔥 38 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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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 in accordance with local/accepted process • Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters and established escalation routes • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, authority approvals, contractual processes, client expectations, budgetary guidance, templates and processes • Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks and escalate them appropriately • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for Investigator Contracts negotiations • Coordinate with internal functional departments to align site startup activities with contractual activities and mutually agreed timelines • Align contract negotiation processes for sites and studies with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Ensure guidelines and processes are followed for efficient escalation of out-of-parameter issues

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2-5 years) • 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 • Good understanding of the principles of contract law, including a general understanding of laws that influence contract language, such as business, intellectual property and local tax and stamp laws • Demonstrated ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation • General understanding of business and financial principles that related to service agreements • Effective communication skills (verbal & written) in English and local language • Capable, with appropriate oversight, of drafting and negotiating contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters • Demonstrated ability in attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision based thinking skills • Understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs • Able to work independently or in a team environment • Good organizational and time management skills • Working knowledge of PPD SOP & WPDs • Able to organize competing priorities logically and review outstanding contractual risk and issues • Able to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications • Ability to demonstrate a customer focused style of communication, problem solving and collaboration • Ability to work in an upright and/or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day • Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists • Frequent mobility required • Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck • Light to moderate lifting and carrying objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. • Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf • Regular and consistent attendance