Associate Site Contract Specialist

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 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 amendments and budgets with study sites • Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approval authorities, contractual processes, client expectations, budgetary guidance, templates, and procedures • Coordinate with internal functional departments on site startup activities and contractual timelines • Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Escalate out-of-parameter issues efficiently according to guidelines and processes • Complete required tracking and reporting • Assist other specialists with tracking and reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 0–2 years of comparable experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and directly related experience • Basic understanding of clinical trial agreements • Basic ability to apply investigator grant negotiation principles • General understanding of business and financial principles related to service agreements • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and local language • Strong attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking • 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 frequent mobility, occasional crouching and stooping, and frequent bending and twisting • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs • Regular and consistent attendance • Ability to perform under stress and multitask

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer • Reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and perform essential job functions • Benefits and privileges of employment provided with reasonable accommodation