Contract Specialist

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – 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 • Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes and client expectations • Ensure compliance with budget guidance, templates and processes • Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks and escalate appropriately • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for investigator contract negotiations • 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 according to established guidelines and processes • Liaise with sites and internal teams to establish effective relationships and support quality contract delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • Previous experience comparable to 2-5 years • Equivalency through a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may satisfy requirements • Good 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 communication skills in English and local language • Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters • 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 meet the stated physical, attendance, mobility, lifting and computer-use requirements